Morning Felix - ;-) Thanks again for responding, I will again intersperse my comments after your suggestions - On 12/28/21 21:56, Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2021-12-28 12:10 (UTC-0800):
Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2021-12-27 22:53 (UTC-0800): Do you have Windows' "fast boot" disabled? There is no option in the BIOS (AMI Bios) configuration menus to enable or disable "fast boot" As answered by Carlos, this is something done while booted to Windows. OK, I found it, and discovered that fast booting was not turned on. I left it turned off....
Did you reboot Windows rather than "shutting it down", which normally it doesn't really do, before beginning to attempt installation? I shut down (powered off) the laptop, then inserted the USB stick, and then powered up the laptop. The laptop then directly loads and starts the YaST installer.
If reboot is not how you last exited Windows, you cannot expect the Windows filesystems to be accessible to Linux or YaST. OK, I tried it by inserting the USB stick with OpenSuSE installation ISO into the laptop while Windows was running. Then I had Windows do a reboot. The OpenSuSE installation started up OK but I still hit the same problem when I reached the point of setting up partitions for OpenSuSE. The installer "thinks" the SSD drive partitions are busy, and gives me the "cannot delete MdContainer" error message. So no joy....
Is this laptop's hardware newer than 15.3? The laptop is the HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15t-eb000, I don't know the answer to your question, how would I determine it?
It's not always readily possible. The object is search results for date of introduction of the model, however....
Hardware lacking CSM support is likely to be too new. If so, you may need to use TW or 15.4 alpha to get needed support. What chipset and CPU is in this laptop?
The CPU is the Intel Core i7-10750H. I don't know what chipset is being used, there is no mention of it in the specs on HP's website.
The i7-10750H is a Comet Lake CPU, introduced Q2'20, so should be fully supported by 15.3, which was released about a year later. Lack of hardware support is typical of devices newer than either the kernel version, or less than about 4-6 months prior to distro release date. Kernel version isn't a very reliable indicator in Leap due to the extent of backported kernel patches coming from SLE. I have a 6 core, 12 thread Rocket Lake i5-11400, which was released Q1'21, and doesn't seem to have gotten enough rigorous testing of edge cases before now. It works fine with one display, but locks up as the graphics driver engages KMS during boot with more than one connected display, which it does also with latest TW kernel. Hm-mm I think you are suggesting I try 15.4 or TW? I can give that a shot today and will report back on the results.
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