nrickert

I am running opensuse Tumbleweed on my UEFI box. Yesterday, there was a kernel update. After the update, the box had several kernels:

• 3.7.10-1.1-1 ## from installing 12.3
• 3.8.8-3.1 ## from a Tumbleweed update
• 3.8.9-5.1 ## also a TW update
• 3.9.0-6.1 ## from the latest TW update

I'm not sure why there are so many kernels. I had thought that there would be only two. But, I have the disk space, so no problem.

UEFI

What does this have to do ...

If you search around the Internet, you may find many reports of problems with dual booting Windows and linux in a UEFI environment. There are a number of pitfalls, and I have stumbled over several of those.

The aim of this post is to explain how to do it and avoid the pitfalls. This is based on my own experience, with the UEFI BIOS for a Dell Inspiron 660 (BIOS version A05). Other UEFI systems may behave differently, though the suggestions that I give should work with most of them. ...