On 05/01/15 12:09, Neil Rickert wrote:
On 01/04/2015 01:21 PM, Joseph Comfort wrote:
Problem 1: Booting the downloaded os 13.2 DVD, there are no entries for either 'Boot installed system' or for 'memtest.' I'm pretty sure that you booted the DVD in UEFI mode rather than legacy mode. And that is the cause of your problems.
If you want to only use legacy mode, then you must disable UEFI mode in the BIOS settings. Otherwise there are two ways of booting the DVD (and other install media). One of my UEFI boxes will list both as boot choices when I hit F12 during boot. My other UEFI box will only list one, depending on my BIOS settings.
Booting the install media in UEFI mode, there is no option to boot the installed system and no memory check option. The installer will select "grub2-efi", will want "/boot/efi", and may well repartition your drive with GPT partitioning. If you had booted in legacy mode, then the option to boot the installed system would be there, and so would the memory check option. And no "/boot/efi" would have been configured.
Note that I just retested booting both ways a few minutes ago. In my case, I have the iso on a USB rather than a DVD, but that should not make any important difference here.
But is this right? I mean, you insert the DVD to be able to install oS, and well *before* you select "Installation" something has already decided that: 1) you cannot Boot from Hard Drive; 2) you cannot Check the Media; 3) you cannot do a Memory Test. From what you and Joseph stated it would appear that there were some *very* weird logical processes at work when what should show up when one inserts the oS DVD. I insert a DVD. I expect to see its 'Directory'. I then decide which option I want to activate - and if it is "Installation" it is then that I can expect to be presented with the choices relating to "legacy" or "uefi" 'modes'. But not before. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.3 & kernel 3.18.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org