[opensuse] Trying to push up oS 13.1 onto Lenovo G505
Hi all, I decided to spend this dark rainy weekend with setting up oS 13.1 with KDE on the above brand new laptop. Well, minor succes. In more detail, no success. First I tried to install only opensuse. I had troubles with booting, because this machine has UEFI. After several combinations of settings, I had so-so working oS which I updated. I was not a wise thing. At boot time, I got four entries, with two groups consisting of the original and the updated kernel and the corresponding advanced options with recovery mode. This last was only bootable. Normal boot failed because it did not find backlight controller. Haha. There is no one This morning it turned out, sometimes Win7 would be necessary. So I tried it with dual boot. It was an even major fault. Dead end, No drivers in win7 for this machine. One can collect them from Lenovo site. The only way to apply them would be to write them on CD, because no USB, as I said. DVD writer is dead for years in the desktop machine. Tried to went back to oS 13.1. Devastating fault. Tries to install on the USB stick, the partitioner does not seem to apply on this 1 TB disk. I decided to wipe down the whole HDD with Win XP installer, but of course I have a dozen in the lab, but none here at home. And then I found an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO on my main box, wrote it to USB, and Installed on Lenovo. Smoothless!!! I saw the whole disk, got WLAN within a minute from plugging in the stick. So it was OK. The only cpmlaint was about a fake GPT msdos partitioning. OK, I perhaps garbled it up previously. Then thought the whole disk is back, let us try it again, and I will have some windows in virtualbox. Installation was eventless, but could boot only in recovery mode again. Hm. I updated to KDE 412, and everything disappeared, including net connection. Only the KDE desktop remained. In the meantime I made a bootable 13.10 UBUNTU stick. Does any of you has experience with this machine? I suspect it is not for oS. As it is stated in the papers it is for WIN 8, that I definitely do not want. Best regards, Albert
2014.02.23. 21:05 keltezéssel, Oszkó Albert írta:
Hi all,
I decided to spend this dark rainy weekend with setting up oS 13.1 with KDE on the above brand new laptop. Well, minor succes. In more detail, no success. First I tried to install only opensuse. I had troubles with booting, because this machine has UEFI. After several combinations of settings, I had so-so working oS which I updated. I was not a wise thing. At boot time, I got four entries, with two groups consisting of the original and the updated kernel and the corresponding advanced options with recovery mode. This last was only bootable. Normal boot failed because it did not find backlight controller. Haha. There is no one This morning it turned out, sometimes Win7 would be necessary. So I tried it with dual boot. It was an even major fault. Dead end, No drivers in win7 for this machine. One can collect them from Lenovo site. The only way to apply them would be to write them on CD, because no USB, as I said. DVD writer is dead for years in the desktop machine. Tried to went back to oS 13.1. Devastating fault. Tries to install on the USB stick, the partitioner does not seem to apply on this 1 TB disk. I decided to wipe down the whole HDD with Win XP installer, but of course I have a dozen in the lab, but none here at home. And then I found an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO on my main box, wrote it to USB, and Installed on Lenovo. Smoothless!!! I saw the whole disk, got WLAN within a minute from plugging in the stick. So it was OK. The only cpmlaint was about a fake GPT msdos partitioning. OK, I perhaps garbled it up previously. Then thought the whole disk is back, let us try it again, and I will have some windows in virtualbox. Installation was eventless, but could boot only in recovery mode again. Hm. I updated to KDE 412, and everything disappeared, including net connection. Only the KDE desktop remained. In the meantime I made a bootable 13.10 UBUNTU stick.
Does any of you has experience with this machine? I suspect it is not for oS. As it is stated in the papers it is for WIN 8, that I definitely do not want.
Best regards, Albert Hi all again,
I think this is the point where I need your help, please. I am not closer to the solution. maybe the reason of all my troubles is that I accidentally deleted the GPT partiton. The good news is that I can only install oS 13.1 64 bit. But I can then boot with Advanced options, recovery mode. I do not understand why. In the last two two days I tried installations with other distros, namely Ubuntus and Debians. I observed that I can install or run in live mode 32 bit systems, and no 64 bit systems. Even oS 13.1 live KDE 64 bit does not work. I created a new msdos partition table. In the bios I changed UEFI to legacy support. Many said it is sufficient to install a linux system, but not for me. With gdisk I checked that I have mbr and not uefi. But there is a remark that there is a valid MBR and an invalid UEFI. So possibly is it still there somewhere. Any suggestion or help is welcome. Thanks, Albert --- A levél vírus, és rosszindulatú kód mentes, mert az avast! Antivirus védelme ellenőrizte azt. http://www.avast.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 25/02/2014 19:53, Oszkó Albert a écrit :
I think this is the point where I need your help, please. I am not closer to the solution.
with GPT system, you *must* have a /boot/uefi partition. When installing double boot, yast ask for this partition. The first time I did such install I didn't even notice the partion already existed on the disk and created an other one, breaking the boot system in a similar manner as you seem to have, that is I needed to go through the boot menu to boot 131.1 and could not make it default. there must be one /boot/uefi and only one, the same for any system installed my last uefi install (two days ago) went perfectly smoothly jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
2014.02.25. 20:30 keltezéssel, jdd írta:
Le 25/02/2014 19:53, Oszkó Albert a écrit :
I think this is the point where I need your help, please. I am not closer to the solution.
with GPT system, you *must* have a /boot/uefi partition. When installing double boot, yast ask for this partition. The first time I did such install I didn't even notice the partion already existed on the disk and created an other one, breaking the boot system in a similar manner as you seem to have, that is I needed to go through the boot menu to boot 131.1 and could not make it default.
there must be one /boot/uefi and only one, the same for any system installed
my last uefi install (two days ago) went perfectly smoothly
jdd
Thanks! Could you give me a hint how can I recreate the GPT partiton? I suspect it was that 156 MB partiton I did not no what it was for and deleted. Albert --- A levél vírus, és rosszindulatú kód mentes, mert az avast! Antivirus védelme ellenőrizte azt. http://www.avast.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 25/02/2014 20:47, Oszkó Albert a écrit :
Thanks! Could you give me a hint how can I recreate the GPT partiton? I suspect it was that 156 MB partiton I did not no what it was for and deleted.
you don't have GPT "partition" but gpt "disk" and I don't think you can go from one to the other without deleting the hole disk (not sure). GPT is the "partition table" like MBR is, but with linear partitionning sheme, as many partitions as you like, no more extended ones, all primaries (if that mean anything now) jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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