I have a problem installing opensuse leap on dualboot with windows 10 , i tried two medium of installation usb and dvd with the same result .
My laptop is an Acer Aspire V3-772g
intel core i7-4702mq
Nvidia geforce Gtx 850m
16 gb of ram
i have two drives, one of them is a samsung SSD 850 Evo (/dev/sda)
my table of partitioning is
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/dev/sda**
https://i.imgur.com/P6w8Gs3.jpg
**/dev/sdb
https://i.imgur.com/xPR8Twl.jpg
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Thank you in advance .
You failed to tell us what went wrong with your attempts.
Well, okay, I see the title line which is probably an indication of trouble.
You appear to have a UEFI system. And it looks as if Windows is installed for UEFI booting.
If you want this to work, then you will need to boot the install media in UEFI mode.
I don’t know the details of your computer. Apparently some systems are confusing with respect to boot mode.
My suggestions:
(1) Disable secure-boot in your BIOS. That’s because there are bugs in the opensuse installer. After your system us up and running and you fully updated it, then you can re-enable secure-boot.
(2) Disable legacy boot options in your BIOS. That is sometimes called CSM (compatibility support module). If you can disable that, it should ensure that you boot the installed media in UEFI mode.
(3) I’m guessing about how you wanted to partition. So recognize that I might have guessed wrongly.
In the partitioning section, select the option “Create partitioning”
On the next screen, select “Custom partitioning” (and ignore that warning that this is for experts).
That should give you a screen showing your existing partitions. On each partition, you can change how it will be used. To do that, right-click on the partition and select “Edit”.
Here’s what I think you want:
“/dev/sda5”: You will want to mount that as “/” (your root partition). And you will probably want to set it to be formatted. It’s probably okay to keep the current subvolume structure. I have not reinstalled into an existing “btrfs” file system, so I’m not quite sure what the prompts will be.
“/dev/sda2”: You will need this to be mounted at “/boot/efi”. DO NOT reformat. Just use the exising FAT formatting.
“/dev/sdb3”: You probably want this to be mounted at “/home”. It should not need to be formatted, unless you have some special reason for wanting to format it.
“/sda4” and “/sdb4”: You possibly want to mount these as “/windows/C” and “/windows/D” (or similar), so that you can access Windows data in your opensuse system. You can make appropriate decisions about that.
With those choices, your install should work. Your problem with bootloader install was either because you did not boot the install media in UEFI mode or because you failed to mount “/dev/sda2” at “/boot/efi”. It’s a bit hard to guess which of those went wrong.
I hope this helps.
First off all thank you for your reply
your are right about the partitioning that i want.
what i did is the same as you proposed:
I kept boot mode on UEfi and disabled secure boot
mounted sda2 as /boot/efi
i get the same problem every time .
For creating a bootable usb i used this command
dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M
Before installing windows 10 . i had my laptop on dual boot windows 8.1 an opensuse 13.1 . i formated Sdb, installed windows 10 on the new SSD .
Sorry for my English.
Start the installer.
As soon as you get to a stable screen (probably the license agreement), use CTRL-ALT-F2.
That should take you to a command line (as root).
Then try:
efibootmgr -v
If that gives an error message (about “efivars”), then you are not booted to UEFI mode. It should give a list of boot options.
(You can return to the installer with CTRL-ALT-F7, where you can continue or abort).
I note you have an Optimus based laptop (Intel+NVIDIA GPU) I don’t think this is your current problem but it will be later. DO NOT INSTALL THE NVIDIA driver. Use bumblebee. Come back and ask in a new thread once the install problems are done for help with optimus.<br><br>
After i try the command the system reboot.
That s what i used in my last setup