Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 15:35:04 CEST schreef Carlos E. R.:
Ok,
now I have an EFI laptop that successfully boots Windows and Linux freshly installed (leap 15.0)
Now I also want to copy another openSUSE install from an external backup to the internal disk (using rsync). I have no issues with root and home, but I do not know how to handle the EFI partition.
Because both openSUSE installs use the same dirs and files in EFI...
I have a laptop with EFI with Windows and three openSUSE systems. I simply have at least 9 partitions on the disk. After starting the laptop I get a GRUB menu in which to choose which system to boot. Once I reformatted two of these partitions, so they appear empty. Booting one of the remaining openSUSE system and using the bootloader of that system removes the non-existent system from the GRUB menu. I copied the system and home partition, using rsync, to the empty partitions. While formatting I gave the empty partitions a new unique name. After rsync I did put another name in /etc/hostname on the new system partition and changed also the label name of / and /home in /etc/fstab. In /etc/fstab I use labels to mount partitions. After that I used bootloader to get this new system in the GRUB menu, which did not quite succeeded. After boot, having the GRUB boot menu and selecting the new system I needed to edit in GRUB the entry for the new system. The reason was that that there was an inconsistency in the two lines in the menu. It might be that the UUID mentioned in both lines did not match. Changing the UUID in the second line to equal the one in the first line, made the new system boot. Using bootloader in that system repaired the GRUB menu. Hope this works for you too. Apparently an openSUSE system uses equal versions in EFI. So AFAIK EFI starts GRUB and you select in GRUB the preferred system. -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org