On 08/31/2017 12:36 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I think the default behavior has changed. IIRC, the install image, if booted from, always defaulted to booting from the hard disk. This made sense. At least to me.
With UEFI, there really is no such thing as "boot from the hard disk". It is supposed to be "boot from an identified operating system". There is a convention that a file of a certain name in "\EFI\Boot" (in the EFI partition) is to be treated as an identified system (and booting the installer depends on that). But it is unlikely that this would be the first system in priority for booting. But, of course, it depends on the UEFI firmware (or BIOS), and some systems come with weird UEFI implementations. The first menu entry when booting the install media in UEFI mode has always been to install, at least as far I can recall. That's different from booting the install media in MBR legacy booting mode.
The change to defaulting to doing an install does lead to confusion: did the previous install fail and it wants to try again? Or? In what situation when, after doing an install and rebooting, would one want to repeat the install?
If the UEFI firmware follows the specs, then it should boot the first EFI system -- first in boot order. And, if the install went correctly, that should be either "opensuse" or "opensuse-secureboot". And if the install failed, the first in boot order is probably Windows for most people. So booting into the installer on reboot is unusual and probably due to a poor UEFI implementation on that computer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org