On Sat 04 Jan 2014 09:36:02 PM CST, luizedu wrote:
I’m trying to dual-boot Windows 8 and OpenSuse 13.1 on an Acer S7 191,
which has 2 64GB SSD on RAID0. I downloaded the 13.1 Gnome (the DVD
wouldn’t fit in my flash drive) and used ImageUSB (‘Tools for
OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to multiple USB Flash Drives’
(Tools for OSForensics - ImageUSB - Write an image to multiple USB Flash Drives)) to transfer
it, as OpenSuse’s official ImageWrite didn’t work on any PC/flash drive
I tried. Now the flash drive is separated between a data and a boot
partition. In the boot partition, there’s a EFI folder.
The problem is that when I try to boot the installation, the Acer logo
just flickers continuously until I remove the flash drive (then it boots
Windows). Even simply trying to open the boot menu causes the same
behaviour. Of course I disabled Secure Boot and tried changing boot
order and even different distros, but it didn’t work. I did manage to
install OpenSuse on Legacy (BIOS) mode, but I couldn’t boot it
afterwards (maybe because of RAID0).
Is it some sort of stupid “design” decision Acer took (this notebook has
its fair share of quirks), or am I doing something wrong?
Hi
Can you download the 13.1 openSUSE rescue CD (~602MB) and install that
onto a USB device and try booting, unetbootin should work, else just
use dd? This is EFI/Secure boot ready.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) GNOME 3.10.2 Kernel 3.11.6-4-desktop
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