I am in the process of trying to upgrade one of my computers to OpenSuSE 15.0 and running into a number of problems. I first started with OpenSuSE42.3 x64 with the KDE/Plasma desktop, and I tried to do an in place straight upgrade. I will also mention that my OpenSuSE42.3 system had something broken with the network drivers so I did not have access to the internet directly from it. So I used my laptop to download the OpenSuSE 15.0 iso file and burned it to a DVD. I mention this because I am suspicious that this may be what is causing me some of the problems I am experiencing, though I do not understand why that should be the case. After my first attempt to upgrade my computer to 15.0 it failed to boot. My research lead me to discover that the installer had changed the grub configuration so that it was trying to make calls to linuxefi and initrdefi. I don't use the efi filesystem on this computer and have no desire to do so. (don't get me started on how much troubles I have had with efi. I use it on my laptop only because I am using solid state drives and it seems that I must use efi on it.) My BIOS in the computer I am trying to upgrade has EFI turned off and only uses legacy file management. So I manually edited the grub configuration file and removed the efi suffix of these calls, i.e. made calls to linux and initrd instead, and the boot up succeeded. However, that lead me to another mess, after logging in to my account, I discovered the KDE/Plasma desktop was not working properly. I had a few konsole windows that opened up (ones I had left open when I brought the system down) but the plasma part of the desktop was not there. No background, no kicker bar, no mouse activity or the ability to right click and bring up the pop up menu dialog etc. In other words almost useless, although all the services and background tasks I have configured to run started up fine. (things like Apache, Tomcat, Bind, DHCPD etc.) I don't know how to recover from this mess, I tried reinstalling all the KDE and Plasma packages but no joy, so I decided to try a different approach - My next attempt was to install OpenSuSE 15.0 into a new/separate partition but I cannot get past the partitioner. It appears it is trying to force me into using the EFI boot system. I don't allow the OpenSuSE installer's partitioner to decide for me (it's defaults) how to configure my system as it makes choices that I don't want. Instead I have it import all my mount points that I have defined in what was my OpenSuSE42.3 (now upgraded to a broken 15.0) system. That much works fine and I just move the mount point for / to a new partition so that the new OpenSuSE15.0 system will be mostly installed in a different partition and I can keep my old system for the time being. However when I tell the partitioner to accept all the new changes I get a complaint - "Missing device for /boot/efi with size equal or bigger than 256MiB and filesystem vfat." Why am I being forced into using EFI? My system/BIOS is configured to use the legacy boot loaders and explicitly turns off EFI! I cannot find any means of telling the OpenSuSE installer/partitioner to use the legacy method of boot loading either, so I am stuck. I have one other complaint about the OpenSuSE 15.0 installer/partitioner that I want to pass along as it almost destroyed my entire system, had I not caught it. After I told the partitioner to import all my mount points from my previous system, I fortunately observed that it had marked ALL of my mount point partitions to be formatted!!! That is just plain wrong, the user should NEVER have to opt out of having data destroyed, but have to opt in to having anything formatted. That modus operandi really needs to be reversed, formatting of any partition should never be done by default. I will listen to any arguments to the contrary but I feel pretty strongly that this should be reported as a bug and fixed. (I am willing to do so.) Appreciate any thoughts on how to install OpenSuSE 15.0 using the legacy boot loaders and not use EFI booting? Sorry for the long writeup and please forgive me if I didn't communicate this technically correctly, this is definitely not my area of expertise! ... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org