Neil and All, My thanks for the nice explanations of the boot process. It is much more involved than I ever understood. It seems that UEFI, while offering good benefits, brings in a lot of subtle complications. After some struggles (because I had never done it before), I now have a USB stick with Live KDE. The boot-up gives a nice menu. I am now running oS KDE -- a bit slow, but maybe its the USB drive. I tried to install from within the Live run. But it bombed claiming that a disk partition was in use and could not be deleted. However, the input sequence went through fine, setting up the disks for bios/mbr booting. I have now completed the install directly from the USB stick. The default boot is now to Windows, with no menu for SuSRE. I'll get that fixed. Joe Joseph Comfort Phone: (480)-965-6377 Physics Department Dept.: (480)-965-3561 Arizona State University Fax: (480)-965-7954 Tempe, AZ 85287-1504 Email: Joseph.Comfort@asu.edu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org