On Wednesday 24 December 2014 01:46:54 Ruben Safir wrote:
These uefi installations are confusing me. I just loaded opensuse 13.1 on a new Levonea laptop
I loaded it with 13.1 and it seemed ok, but the windows loader didn't go away even through I thought I deleted the partitions...
the partitions were sda1 vfat /boot/eefi sda2 swap sda3 / root (everything)
for the 13.2 install using XFS. Simple right?
it coudn't install the boot loader. I tried sec, I tried insecure.
I tried running the rescue but I have no idea how to reinstall in the boot loader
I'm doing the installation off of a net install CD
BTW - there are problems with that CD
Being an old paranoid I'm preparing my partitions with gparted live before actually installing the system. Here's the sequence: 1. Enable BIOS/CMOS support in UEFI settings. 2. Run gparted, choose your vfat partition, click "manage flags" and make sure that "boot" flag is set. 3. Go into UEFI settings and disable BIOS/CMOS emulation. This step is needed to make sure that openSUSE installer will work in UEFI mode. 4. In partitioning, press rescan disk, then just select mount points or reformat / and /home partitions to your liking, and make sure that vfat partition is mounted as /boot/efi. After that there should be no problems with installer, and in addition you can use efibootmgr to drop windows boot entries. And in addition to that, I'm usually performing following commands to make my machine boot into linux directly without starting grub first, even with grub timeout of 0 it saves around 4 seconds: cp "$(readlink -e /boot/vmlinuz)" "/boot/efi/EFI/opensuse/vmlinuz-current.efi" cp "$(readlink -e /boot/initrd)" "/boot/efi/EFI/opensuse/initrd-current" efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L 'openSUSE 13.2' \ -l '\EFI\opensuse\vmlinuz-current.efi' \ -u 'root=UUID=32156419-2bb5-46b5-9ad3-5ce9715e40b7 ro \ resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent quiet showopts \ initrd=EFI/opensuse/initrd-current' with the efibootmgr command, the parameter to -u option comes from grub.cfg, especially root UUID and resume partition is swap. And initrd path has to be added. -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org