[opensuse] Installing 13.1 on usb-drive
Hi, In between meetings i tried to install 13.1/64 onto a test-laptop from work. As I am not sure if i may wipe the disk-content i thought installing it on the an usb-stick. Isn't it enough to use grub2 and tell yast to install the bootloader at /boot or /root and remove any attempts to look at /dev/sda (the hd) and /dev/sdc (iso-image) And for the rest, I only manualy partitioned sdb with a 512MB /boot and 7G /-partition. Rest i left to default. Tried a couple of times, sometimes i got a grub-install error, sometimes it completed without error, but never a working result. i did turned of secure-boot, and used compatibility mode in the bios. Did I forgot the something obvious? Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:38:10 +0200 Hans Witvliet <suse@a-domani.nl> wrote:
i did turned of secure-boot, and used compatibility mode in the bios.
Did I forgot the something obvious?
Here's what has worked for me (installing to an external drive but not a flash drive): On the first bootloader screen, there's a button for "Boot Loader Installation Details". That's for grub2 (but not for grub2-efi). Click on that, and you will see the disks listed in order. Change the order so that the external drive (the one you will boot from) comes first. I'll note, however, that if the drive is GPT partitioned, then it still might not work unless you setup hybrid partitioning. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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