On Wed 22 Jul 2015 09:40:49 AM CDT, Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:16:55 +0200 "andredo@wxs.nl" <AdenOudsten@wxs.nl> wrote:
At the end of this month I can windows 7 on my laptop upgrade to Windows 10 with undoubtly it's UEFI-BIOS. Wil my openSUSE 13.1 survive that? And if not how can I then install 13.1 again? T.i.a.
André den Oudsten
Having "upgraded" MS versions many times in the past in multi-boot systems can say there are some "gotchas" on MS part.
First, openSuSE has an UEFI shim so that shouldn't be a problem.
Next, MS tends to try to use the "ENTIRE" physical drive by default. One has to do some gymnastics to get that changed. So far only the ßeta version of MS 10 is available and it doesn't have any option but "whole drive". Hopefully the public release will revert to old way.
Hi That isn't true (well I've only used uefi), I have windows 10 installed on a 30GB partition from the beta (well it's the rtm version now). I used the custom install and told it where to go. It does play nice with other operating systems on UEFI and happily creates it's directories for the uefi install. I tried both ways, windows 10, then Tumbleweed. Then next update did it the other way without issues. I also ensured nvram efi entries were cleaned out, and had a pre-partitioned setup since it's only a 128GB SSD. Nice thing about the later HP ProBooks is adding a 'custom' boot option to add the shim entry in and set custom to boot first. I can also do this on an ASUS K53U test system as well. Now in saying the above the very first beta I installed I let it use the whole drive to see what it would do. It does want a 300MB RE partition at sda1. The update from build 162 to 240 (RTM) just downloaded and created a 4.5GB hidden windows directory for the update, so only had a few GB to spare with 30GB... Still not sure if the rtm version will be a giveaway or expire..will see in a few months, else I'll just stick windows 7 back on and update. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.43-52.6-default up 9 days 15:49, 4 users, load average: 0.23, 0.30, 0.30 CPU AMD A4-5150M APU @ 3.3GHz | GPU Richland Radeon HD 8350G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org