Den 21. feb. 2018 03:04, skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
Regarding the new XPS 13, I am able to look closer at it after help from Dell support to enable Legacy boot for USB3 Leap via Thunderbolt/USB-C port and DA-300 adapter.
The 1 TiB SSD (nvme0n) is partioned as follows:
p1: 600 MiB EFI Boot FAT ESP /boot/efi p2: 5 GiB Win95 FAT LBA OS p3: 900 GiB Linux Native ext4 Ubuntu / p4: 31.4 GiB Linux Swap swap
With the YaST2 installer I tried to first resize the Ubuntu p3 partition down to 700 GiB, and next added two new OS partitions:
p5: 100 GiB Linux Native ext4 (for Leap /) p6: 100 GiB NTFS (for Windows next/later)
Then the following YaST2 Warning poped up: "There is no partitions of type bios_grub present. Such a partition is recommended (required with Btrfs) when Grub2 is installed in the MBR of a GPT disk. It must be unformatted and approximately 1 MB large. Really use this setup? " Yes or No?
I wouldn't take the risk to break something here, so I stopped with "No".
1) I couldn't find out how to solve the above warning/request for a "bios_grub" partition of 1 MB .........?
2) Should the pre-created p1 (/boot/efi) and p4 (swap) be mounted correspondingly for the new Leap (as it has been for Ubuntu)?
3) How safe is it that both Ubuntu and Leap will be available from the grub2 boot menu after adding a Leap-installation? (On my other machines I sometimes have to re-install (upgrade) the boot loader on the first systems before this works).
Just an update here, as I've now succeeded to get a running Leap 15.0 in dual boot setup with the pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04 on XPS 13 9370. The Leap 15.0 beta up to the current Build 139.1 iso, have had some installation bugs that has made installation difficult. The latest announced Build 147.1 seems to have the neccessary fixes and enhancement (not yet available as iso). I noticed that Leap 42.3 was possible to upgrade to early Leap 15.0 alpha from iso on another workstation. Therefore I tried to install Leap 42.3 first on XPS 13 (USB EFI boot with "lupe"). The problem with Leap 42.3 is that its "scan for wifi network" during the installation doesn't find any wifi at all, so also now on XPS 13. And the ethernet was not detected (truly too new for 42.3). As a temporary workaround I installed 42.3 from USB media first without network setup. Used YaST2 installation Expert partitioner and Imported the existing mount points (this traditional feature has been removed from Leap 15.0, but is now re-implemented AFAIK). Unmounted Ubuntu / of course on p4, before formatting p5 as ext4 and mount it as / for Leap 42.3. Next I could upgrade 42.3 using the Leap 15.0 USB iso, where wifi scan works and wifi could be setup during the installation. Now it is upgraded to the latest Leap 15.0 (Build 147.1?) via online repos. Any suggestions how to size-up the SDDM login menu and text if possible (before login to Gnome DE)? When using pure GDM, I'm used with "Large Text" setup in the Universal Access (Accessibility) launcher already at the GDM login. Terje J. H -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org