13.1 to 13.2 upgrade

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Have a machine which has windows 7 and Suse 13.1 on it, and wanted to upgrade it to 13.2, but when i got to the page where it detects the partitions and bootloader, it wanted to delete the windows partition and all linux partitions and then create all new partitions.:open_mouth: Now to give you a bit of background information on the system and the way it is setup. The machine is an asus machine that has this new efui boot thingy, but is disabled ( made sure of that when i setup windows 7). The partitions are as follows. Windows partition with bootloader ( why bootloader was not put in mbr no idea, that was when 12.3 was installed on it) Then have the usual root partition and home partition as per usual with all opensuse versions, that is until now.

So my question is this: when i want to upgrade the machine to 13.2, how do i go about doing it without the installer wanting to delete all patitions and leave partition setup as is as well as boolloader? Also i think the efui thingy has something do do with it as this new version now detects that it has this capability, and wanting to install bootloader to efui partition / create one.

Also i did the upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1 with no problem and it left all the partitions intacted and bootloader.

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If you select ā€œUpgradeā€ instead of ā€œInstallā€ at the boot menu, the partitioning should be left as is.

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On 2015-02-05, firestomper412 <firestomper412@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Have a machine which has windows 7 and Suse 13.1 on it, and wanted to
> upgrade it to 13.2, but when i got to the page where it detects the
> partitions and bootloader, it wanted to delete the windows partition and
> all linux partitions and then create all new partitions.:open_mouth:

Sorry to ask such obvious questions but it helps to understand:

  1. Are you upgrading using a DVD burned from a downloaded ISO image?
  2. If you booted from DVD, did you boot it in UEFI or Legacy BIOS mode?
  3. You definitely did hit upgrade' rather than installā€™?

> Now to give
> you a bit of background information on the system and the way it is
> setup. The machine is an asus machine that has this new efui boot
> thingy, but is disabled ( made sure of that when i setup windows 7).

Can I just confirm when you say efui, you mean UEFI?

> The
> partitions are as follows. Windows partition with bootloader ( why
> bootloader was not put in mbr no idea, that was when 12.3 was installed
> on it) Then have the usual root partition and home partition as per
> usual with all opensuse versions, that is until now.

Itā€™s difficult to understand your partition arrangement from this. Could you please runā€¦

sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2# for devsd in $(find /dev/sd* ! -name ā€œ*[0-9]ā€); do parted $devsd print; done
sh-4.2# exit

ā€¦ posting the results inside code tags (#).

> So my question is this: when i want to upgrade the machine to 13.2, how
> do i go about doing it without the installer wanting to delete all
> patitions and leave partition setup as is as well as boolloader?

It should be very straightforward if upgrading from DVD. The installer should detect your existing openSUSE installation
and offer an upgrade. Please specify what media you are using to upgrade?

> Also i
> think the efui thingy has something do do with it as this new version
> now detects that it has this capability, and wanting to install
> bootloader to efui partition / create one.

OK, so this suggests you are booting in UEFI mode if Iā€™m understanding you correctly.

> Also i did the upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1 with no problem and it left all
> the partitions intacted and bootloader.

Did you perform the upgrade in an identical way?

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On 2015-02-05, firestomper412 <firestomper412@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Have a machine which has windows 7 and Suse 13.1 on it, and wanted to
> upgrade it to 13.2, but when i got to the page where it detects the
> partitions and bootloader, it wanted to delete the windows partition and
> all linux partitions and then create all new partitions.:open_mouth:

Sorry to ask such obvious questions but it helps to understand:

  1. Are you upgrading using media written from a downloaded ISO image?
  2. Did you boot the installation media in UEFI or Legacy BIOS mode?
  3. You definitely did select upgrade' rather than installā€™ in the intaller?

> Now to give
> you a bit of background information on the system and the way it is
> setup. The machine is an asus machine that has this new efui boot
> thingy, but is disabled ( made sure of that when i setup windows 7).

When you say efui, do you mean UEFI?

> The
> partitions are as follows. Windows partition with bootloader ( why
> bootloader was not put in mbr no idea, that was when 12.3 was installed
> on it) Then have the usual root partition and home partition as per
> usual with all opensuse versions, that is until now.

Itā€™s difficult to understand your partition arrangement from your description. Could you please runā€¦


sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2# for devsd in $(find /dev/sd* ! -name "*[0-9]"); do parted $devsd print; done
sh-4.2# exit

ā€¦ posting the results inside code tags (#).

> So my question is this: when i want to upgrade the machine to 13.2, how
> do i go about doing it without the installer wanting to delete all
> patitions and leave partition setup as is as well as boolloader?

It should be very straightforward if upgrading from DVD. The installer should detect your existing openSUSE installation
and offer an upgrade prior to installation. Please specify what media you are using to upgrade?

> Also i
> think the efui thingy has something do do with it as this new version
> now detects that it has this capability, and wanting to install
> bootloader to efui partition / create one.

OK, so this suggests you are booting in UEFI mode if Iā€™m understanding you correctly.

> Also i did the upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1 with no problem and it left all
> the partitions intacted and bootloader.

Did you perform the upgrade in an identical way?

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Ok I was doing a fresh install, and not using the upgrade option as have done the install option before, and works, except that you have to then reinstall all the extra apps and codecs.

will have to give upgrade option a try. just did not want to do the upgrade option as am believer that old settings get taken across and then some how get messed up, and cause more problems. I know i had that with one of the suse versions where i did the upgrade option and then when i logged into kde, the desktop was totally screwed up due to old settings being not properly reinstated.

will try upgrade option and post again if i have any issues.

Just to answer flymail question about media used, was a bootable usb stick with 13,2 on it. I do not do dvd media anymore. Also when i went into the bios to set the boot order, i did see that it had picked up the usb stick and in the corner of the icon was a uefi label, so that may be the cause of frustration as well.

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By default openSUSE 13.2 creates a 40Gb btrfs partition for / and an xfs partition for /home. So its suggestion of deleting the windows partition will have come from the fact that you had a 20Gb Ext4 partition for / which was too small.

When you get to the partitioning, there is an option to choose your own partitioning. So you can keep Ext4 for both / and /home if you want and openSUSE 13.2 will install.

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sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2# for devsd in $(find /dev/sd* ! -name "*[0-9]"); do parted $devsd print; done
sh-4.2# exit

Donā€™t loop over (unquoted) command substitution and find is not needed plus unquoted vars

for f in /dev/sd!(*[0-9]); do parted "$f" print; done

That said, instead of avoiding it you can just match it.

for f in /dev/sd[a-z]; do parted "$f" print; done

:wink: