hi guy’s/gal’s
ok i managed to delete the key’s and switch off the secure boot and stupidly assumed the next bit was easy:’( as you probably know the **** thing wont let go of the hard drive…Asus Maximus VII Hero Intel Z97 (Socket 1150… cpu… intel i5 4660k 3.20g haswell… Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti…windows 7… sooooo is there a guide on site somewhere ( i cant find one !! ) or maybe a genius in the doncaster area im getting to old for all this 
Hi
Download the openSUSE Rescue cd and put that on a USB key and boot from that, you can then prep the disk for the windows 7 install via installing gdisk to the usb device or via gparted as disk will need to be gpt.
sda1 - 260MB /boot/efi type ef00 (shared by windows 7 and openSUSE (don’t format when installing openSUSE but set to use)
sda2 - 128MB type 0c01
sda3 - allocate as required for windows or openSUSE
sda4 - allocate as required for windows or openSUSE
sda5 - swap type 8200
I prefer windows at the end of the disk as I don’t use it very much…
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 128M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 40G 0 part /
├─sda4 8:4 0 170G 0 part /data
├─sda5 8:5 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6 8:6 0 79.7G 0 part
gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 625142448 sectors, 298.1 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0B17E8A6-2920-430E-98D1-D086F80730A5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 625142414
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 534527 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI System
2 534528 796671 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved
3 796672 84682751 40.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
4 84682752 441198591 170.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 441198592 457975807 8.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap
6 457975808 625142414 79.7 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
Windows 7 is installed on sda6
cheer’s malcolm,
i will sit and study that … life was good when i had xp and suse 11.4 set up and cloned regularly,i was that comfortable with it i neglected to
actualy teach myself about linux,i thought opensuse was going to do what redhat have done regard’s key’s so iv’e been heading for this crash for some time, but i am a bit of a techno numpty i must admit;) thank’s
Keys should not be a problem. Boot install to EFI mode be sure that grub2-efi is the boot loader selected and that the efi boot partition is mounted as /boot/efi and FAT (and NOT formatted if dual booting). (note that if you boot the install in EFI then previous should be correct)
If you plan on using secure boot you need to check the secure boot box (you have to if you did not disable secure boot in EFI BIOS). It does not hurt if you don’t use secure boot and still check the box. It only effects things if secure boot is set in the BIOS
thank’s gogalthorp.
what i meant was i had to disable key’s to prevent secure boot…but i would like to keep it for the time being as i believe in principle that the idea is sound,but as i stated earlier im not the brightest spoon in the draw when it comes to computers and at over 60yrs i do struggle with the terminology at time’s,however i am a bit of a linux crusader when the subject comes up;)
Hi
With openSUSE secure boot will work, dual booting with windows 7 is a no-go as it does not do secure boot, windows 8, yes.
If the windows 7 requirements a just for a few things, then why not just virtualize windows 7 as a guest in oprnSUSE?
On 07/21/2014 01:26 PM, diamond1902 wrote:
>
> thank’s gogalthorp.
> what i meant was i had to disable key’s to prevent secure boot…but
> i would like to keep it for the time being as i believe in principle
> that the idea is sound,but as i stated earlier im not the brightest
> spoon in the draw when it comes to computers and at over 60yrs i do
> struggle with the terminology at time’s,however i am a bit of a linux
> crusader when the subject comes up;)
At “over 60yrs”, you are a youngster. I’m 74, and I am really enjoying my
retirement working with Linux. Yes, there are lots of strange terms, and always
new acronyms to keep up with, but just keep plugging away.
As for the secure boot, I am a kernel developer and I’m always running
self-generated kernels for testing. If I had to jump through all the hoops
necessary to sign a new kernel, I would get a lot less work done. Yes, it is a
good idea for the Windows users where malware can be inserted nearly everywhere;
however, it got turned off almost immediately on the new Toshiba laptop that I
got one month ago. I did keep Windows 8.1 as a boot option in a small partition,
but I rarely run it.
hi malcolm,
the laptop im using at this moment is windows 7 dual boot with 13.1 suse no problems works exelent when i ordered my new tower i asked them to install windows 7
for me and had not invisaged any problems…expecting to place the 13.1 disk in and install,now that ive disabled the secure boot i thought i could install suse without problems…
what prevents me from formatting the hard drive and reinstalling windowsfollowed by suse like i did with this laptop???
On Mon 21 Jul 2014 08:06:01 PM CDT, diamond1902 wrote:
hi malcolm,
the laptop im using at this moment is windows 7 dual boot with 13.1
suse no problems works exelent when i ordered my new tower i asked them
to install windows 7
for me and had not invisaged any problems…expecting to place the
13.1 disk in and install,now that ive disabled the secure boot i thought
i could install suse without problems…
what prevents me from formatting the hard drive and reinstalling
windowsfollowed by suse like i did with this laptop???
Hi
Perhaps post the output from the dvd in rescue mode then, just to check
it it’s set up for uefi?
parted -l /dev/sda
If windows is pre-installed…there may be rescue partitions?
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Windows does not support Secure boot so be sure you did not turn it on instead of off
But that should only affect Windows since openSUSE can deal with secure boot (if you check the box)
If they installed in MBR mode they may have used all 4 of the allowed partitions. You may need to eliminate one and replace it with an extended partition to hold the additional ones needed
BTW it is best to set free space on the drive from Windows ie resize perhaps move to allow free space for Linux
thats what i didnt understand i specifically requested windows 7 for that reason but when i tried to install suse it just kept freezing within seconds of trying to boot,
i had to disable the four keys to disable the secure boot. now the boot goes further but still wont install and i know its a good install on both cd and usb same thing happens, but i dont feel confident with partitioning but believe i need to do full format of hard drive and start from scratch if that makes sense
Hi
So do you have a windows 7 install disk? Can you download the openSUSE 13.1 Rescue CD and put it on a usb device?
Get the rescue system here http://software.opensuse.org/131/en
I think we need to see the output of your disk structure via lsblk, parted or fdisk…
Also some NVIDA card don’t work with nouveau so… It is not clear at what point you are having problems. If at install select option at the bottom of screen screen and nokms option
If after install then select advanced and rescue mode. that will load more generic drivers. If that works you will want to install the propritary NVIDIA driver
what can i say, once again youv’e saved me it was infact the shop who had set secure boot, a little jiggary pokery with parted magic and resetting uefi bios to optimal defaults, as you say iwfinger…youre never to old to learn;)
many thank's guy's:good: