It’s older laptop that I wanted to see how it runs with latest openSUSE.
Leap 16.0 USB did not boot at all.
Next was 15.6 which booted, installed Leap to internal hard drive and booted first time. Installation was clean install on empty hard disk.
Problem came when I removed USB and tried to boot :)))
BIOS did not recognize hard disk installation. Put back USB stick, wait little for USB stick GRUB menu, press Enter (default options is “Boot from hard disk”) and you can now see hard disk GRUB menu, and from this point it works like charm.
For some reason 16.0 USB stick and hard disk installation have no flagged active partition, while 15.6 USB has on second partition. That looking with fdisk -l. I tried fdisk, gdisk, parted.
All I wanted is to replicate what is on 15.6 USB stick, and makes that old BIOS happy.
BTW, 15.6 will start with openSUSE 11 installation CD, the same way it starts with its own installation media.
That has no useful meaning. Older could mean 5, 10, 15 or more years old. With 15.6 booted into the installed system’s DE, run inxi -Faz in a GUI terminal and paste its I/O here for us too peruse. Try running efibootmgr, and if you get expected output instead of a not supported message, paste that I/O here as well. Also paste I/O from either parted -l or fdisk -l, and cat /etc/fstab.
Yes, it would if Leap 16.0 installation medium would boot
localhost:~ # efibootmgrch
EFI variables are not supported on this system.
Which is why installation added MBR compatibility.
localhost:~ # parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 9437kB 8389kB legacy_boot
2 9437kB 17.8MB 8389kB bios_grub
4 17.8MB 742GB 742GB btrfs
3 742GB 750GB 8240MB linux-swap(v1) swap
Model: SanDisk Cruzer Glide (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2171kB 6687kB 4516kB primary fat16 esp, type=ef
2 6687kB 4632MB 4625MB primary boot, hidden, type=17
Reading what I copied, I just found elements of my next try to install bootable Leap 15.6. Partition Table reported for ISO image (USB stick) is msdos, but hard disk is gpt. Just checked and fdisk -l reports the same, just instead of “Partition Table” uses “Disklabel type” which in my head has different meaning because of “Disklabel”.
Also, hard disk layout is little strange. I should read final proposal before commit, but it should not be a problem.
I’ll redact inxi output as it is a bit intrusive, and probably too large for 1 post.
I’m obviously still missing something. I have 16.0 installed on a lesser CPU on MBR formatted disk on HP PC lacking UEFI. What’s different making him need UEFI to install 16.0. Is it the Agama installer that requires UEFI?
Legacy BIOS is still supported in openSUSE Leap 16.0. However, some features are not available when using it (for example, full-disk encryption with TPM). Finally, support for legacy BIOS will be discontinued in the future. For that reason we recommend switching to UEFI at the nearest opportunity.
