On 08/08/2020 18.27, Per Jessen wrote:
ken wrote:
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And if it was a common problem, I would have read more about it in this list. My guess at this point is that opensuse can't deal for some reason with the previous (CentOS) distro installed on this machine... as shown in my email prior to your reply. I don't know why a previously installed distro would screw up an opensuse install. Shouldn't it overwrite the previous boot sector... or at least ask me during the install process whether I want it or not?
If YaST finds traces of another distro, it will likely to try accommodate it in the boot-setup. Just guessing - I never do multi-boot installations myself, but I'm sure we have many users here who do. They might be able to help.
Installing on top (in the same partition) of a previous Linux system, not openSUSE, I think it basically formats the partition and starts fresh. There is no attempt to be clever, I think. If you are talking about the boot system, it depends on many things. Traditional, UEFI... And yes, it asks, unless you go clicking and accepting the defaults. The defaults may collide with the previous defaults. No way to know what the defaults will be in each case. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)