-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2012-12-01 at 17:34 -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Searching around on the internet, it appears I am in for a rough road trying to install a dual boot system on my new ASUS G75VW laptop. (It came with Windows 7 x64 installed and there is a lot of chatter in Google land about something called EFI partitions???
Most of the problems are with Windows 8, not 7.
Also a lot of Google hits on openSuSE forums, but when I try to open them up for viewing, my browser (Firefox) is not showing any contents!)
That's because of the announced downtime today on most of the infraestructure. Try again the forums, they should be online now.
I downloaded and created an installation DVD for openSuSE12.2 x64
One important step is to verify the DVD. There should be an entry in the menu where you can do it.
and managed to figure out how to reach the bios and change the device boot order so as to boot from the DVD drive first. Upon inserting the DVD installation disk and powering up the laptop I can see that the initial phase of bringing up ELILO boot, (what happened to GRUB?)
I think that lilo kicks in when EFI is involved, but I'm not sure.
loads the kernel and perhaps a screen and a half worth of additional messages (too fast for me to read). But suddenly the display breaks up badly with unreadable lines that look mostly like a lot of dots and dashes start appearing, and it appears to soon reach a GUI (composed of green, grey, and white streaks of colors) but this too is badly corrupted and non-readable. So I am not even reaching a point where I can configure anything while attempting to install openSuSE!
Please verifu the DVD, it could be that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlC6tmkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WJvQCfbE+qrordiMrip98dTGOkkx64 rgEAn2lgWnO8/UtgsQhAlGj1qq4ftsT3 =4d8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org