Hi, I think I now understand what my original problem was. I'm adding this comment so that it might be helpful for others (e.g., the current thread on Win-8.1 and oS 13.2). In addition to enabling or not Legacy Support and/or Secure Boot, the BIOS menu has a boot order list. It includes an order under UEFI at the top, and an order under Legacy below that. There seem to be no provisions for moving items up or down, just enabling them or not. I had left the list alone, thinking that the order (under each group) was just fine. Because I had enabled Legacy Support, I assumed that the UEFI sequence would be skipped over. The saga is apparently not. After installing the system, the computer insisted on booting to Win-7 (on sda) rather than to SuSE (on sdb). After I disabled UEFI in the boot order (originally considered to be redundant), I got the booting I wanted. In fact, the SuSE install DVD even boots correctly and shows _all_ menu items! The documentation is brief and less than clear on the BIOS. Anyway, the system is running and I am resoring the rpms I want. oS 13.2 looks very nice so far. Joe On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Joseph Comfort wrote:
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
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