On 24/11/2018 16.03, 712@vivaldi.net wrote:
Hello Carlos and all,
Alas, still no self-booting Leap 15 here...
On 2018-11-22 23:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I would try something. One, make sure that the bios is set to boot on legacy mode, not EFI. Although I think if the computer is old, there will be no chance of EFI anyway.
It is set to Legacy Boot only.
Then, on YaST, load the boot module, and select:
store default boot sector on MBR grub is on "/" partition, not on MBR
After I tried above, the YaST boot module shut down with an error message and became inaccessible. There were instructions to file a bug report, but I haven't done that.
:-(
Instead, I reinstalled Leap 15 yet another time. It still won't boot.
[X] Boot from boot partition [X] Write generic boot code to MBR
Bootloader is Grub2.
Is below screenshot what you mean by above instructions?
https://i.postimg.cc/NFRz0RmQ/Screenshot-from-2018-11-24-15-47-59.png
(Using these settings Leap 15 won't boot.)
I think you also need "boot from partition", which is another wording for my "boot from boot partition" above. You can do that on the install screen if yast crashes on the already installed system. An alternative is to go the other way: set boot to pure UEFI instead of Legacy, and install again... Guessing that the bios is buggy (and that Mint knows how to handle it). If you do install mint again, you could run the bootinfo script and post it, so that we find out how it does it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)