On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Malcolm <malcolmlewis@cableone.net> wrote:
The 'boot' you refer to is the /boot/efi partition (ESP) and the additional ms reserved one. UEFI doesn't need a boot flag set ;) You can have multiple ESP's just need to use efibootmgr to tell the system which one to use and on which drive.
A fair bit off topic, but... ran into this on a dual boot Win8/openSUSE 13.1 system. Win8.0 was installed, then openSUSE - with Grub2. Win8 on its own drive, and openSUSE on its own drive. Basic config is: /dev/sda = openSUSE /dev/sdb = Win8.0 Win 8 has some funny business added to /dev/sda (I never looked too deeply into what it was). Win 8.1 update arrived, it would download but fail to install 100% of the time. After many hours of fighting, swearing and web searching I discovered that that the primary partition... the EFI boot... had to be set to "Active" before the Win 8.1 update would apply. The result is that it broke Grub2 and openSUSE would no longer boot - a quick boot to rescue and using Grub2 tools to rewrite Grub2 and everything started working again. Point being that even with Win8 on a sep drive - which is what I used to do with XP - it doesn't behave in the same way and it's easy to get tripped up by an unfamiliar OS (that being Win8) and its bad behaivour in combination with any version of openSUSE... even 9.1.... if you can even get 9.1 to install on EFI based hardware. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org