Hello,
some friend of me asked me to install ubuntu on his asus 1225b computer, wipping all trace of windows.
So I inserted the unbuntu 13.04 disk, installed without problem... and couldn't boot it, error "no system found".
This is uefi bios, gpt disk.
So I inserted the openSUSE 13.1 dvd... and... same punishment!!
I tried all what passed in my mind: verifying /boot/EFI partition was mounted (it was), trying to set a boot flag (not available in efi/gpt system), even trying to add manually efi system files ("Windows Boot Manager.efi" or "Shellx64.efi" as the bios seemed to ask for.. nope. Even tried ELILO without more success.
I now try to install with standard MBR and grub2 (non efi), and hope to succeed.
but I would really like to install with efi/gpt system, let only for the record :-))
any idea?
thanks jdd (I wonder if an double boot system would have worked, any people testing thies on this pretty common computer?) Hi Not sure (this maybe a red herring), but when dual booting windows 7 via UEFI I always boot the rescue usb (13.1) and prep the gpt disk and
On Sat 08 Mar 2014 07:37:45 PM CST, jdd wrote: format the efi partition as fat16 and then when installing openSUSE tell it to use but not format. I also ensure that the mbr is zero'd out via gdisk; fdisk /dev/sda delete all partitions and w to write. gdisk /dev/sda w (write and quit) gdisk /dev/sda x z Y Y (to blank mbr) gdisk /dev/sda n <enter> Start sector <enter> If dual booting +260M <enter> If just windows +128M <enter> type ef00 n <enter> If windows present Start sector <enter> +128M Type 0c01 more partitions if required, type 0700 if it's windows write and quit Then format sda mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/sda1 Reboot and install.... I use this all the time but mostly HP systems with windows 7 and openSUSE or SLED. I actually got a newer HP ProBook 4440s today which has secure boot present, so will probably rebuild this system on it later on ;) -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) GNOME 3.10.2 Kernel 3.11.10-7-desktop up 14 days 14:56, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.08 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org