On 2016-11-08 00:18, Fr David Ousley wrote:
*** You need the BIOS one. That's the problem. ***
How do I get the BIOS one to load?
When booting into Windows, there is no BIOS prompt, and if I hit delete when the boot starts, I get Windows Boot Manager, where the only choices are Windows 7 and Windows Memory Diagnostic: none of the usual BIOS options.
Oh. You have one of those computers. :-/ At this point I would consider returning the machine. No kidding. I don't know. Maybe you can configure the BIOS from inside Windows. I have seen this on some Windows 10 machines. What brand and model is that machine? Maybe someone knows.
The above partition table, with Windows 7, has to be booted in BIOS mode. Be sure that your bios is set accordingly (legacy, probably). If the installation disk boots in EFI mode, it expects a GPT partition table, which it does not see, and thus wants to delete it all.
Current partition table:
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x5b171916
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 411648 450545663 450134016 214.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 950804480 976771071 25966592 12.4G 12 Compaq diagnostics
So, there is free space between sda2 and 3.
It was suggested that I partition the free space first (with g-parted, e.g.) before installing openSUSE, but if you are right about UEFI/BIOS, with that work?
I think not. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)