I started with openSuse 2 months ago coming with my pavilion dv3 with windows 7. It took my time to realize that
I can not install linux-opensuse if the disc is dynamic, so I use testdisk to convert dynamic disk to basic disk
as seen in Linux Mint Forums • View topic - Warning: Don’t install linux on a Windows Dynamic disk. After having plenty of unallocated space in my
hard disk it was no problem to install opensuse 12.3, this time was quite straight forward. I used EasyBCD 2.2 to
deal with Windows bootloader following this page, Dual-Booting Windows and openSUSE.
So everything was all right until I updated opensuse, it was around 70 packed.
Now, all I get it is a grub text in a black screen. To recall that I had to do the installation in safe mode (F5).
I have reinstalled opensuse without making or deleting any partition, just again with the dvd.
I would appreciate any advice to solve this situation.
You don’t tell us which version of openSUSE you installed. Which is quite important since there have been lots of changes since the versions your link is referring to.
You don’t tell us which version of openSUSE you installed. Which is quite important since there have been lots of changes since the versions your link is referring to.
I have no problems with the dual installation, I had windows and opensuse both working well, at the end. I was playing a bit with opensuse, everything was fine until the system showed me that I have the change of having a few updates. Since that, there is no way to boot opensuse.
Reinstalling time after time will get you there in the end, but maybe this is better: https://forums.opensuse.org/content/146-using-livecd-take-over-repair-installed-system.htmlIt allows you to reinstall the bootloader, whilst running from a live CD. But, rather install Windows first, without dynamic disk. Then install openSUSE. If you do it the other way around, Windows will remove the openSuSE bootloader.
What I did recently, was no more than install Windows 7, shrink it to leave as much free space as possible. Reboot a couple of times to make sure it worked, then install openSUSE. But, this was on a non UEFI machine. Windows got recognized by the bootloader install, both work fine.
A thing to consider is to run Win7 in a virtual machine instead of a native install.
In opensuse 12.3 now, I thought there are three parts here, windows, opensuse and the bootloader.
No problem with windows, opensuse was fine until I updated, so it could be the bootloader throw easyBCD. Following the installation steps of Dual-Booting Windows and openSUSE, once you have installed opensuse, set easybcd, so that what I did, delete the opensuse entry, and create one choosing the root partion (/). Lovely.
So back to opensuse and updating the 180 packs again - because I tried to install it with the dvd without making any change or deleting any partition, with no luck - and got the same black screen with Grub. So I did the same in easybcd, delete the opensuse entry and create a new one and it is working fine again.
Another day and a half to get rid of the black screen… but happy enough.