On 2014-02-01 20:46, dayfinger wrote:
> Astralogic;2621266 Wrote:
> One thing, though: The culprit here is the way the OS-es detect UEFI
> and Legacy in your mixed mode UEFI/BIOS setup, and thereby how they
> choose to partition harddisks.
Maybe there is a bios update for that machine - forgive me if this was
already mentioned.
> In my view, your only options that does not include reformatting disks
> are to force openSUSE to accept MBR/detect Legacy BIOS (if possible, but
> I don’t know how - I did follow up on robin_listas’ suggestion above,
> but didn’t see any solution either. To me, it seems that Yast is the
> detector here, but I’m not sure. Maybe it is the disk partitioner itself
> - that means parted, if I’m not mistaken) or find another Linux
> distribution that do agree with W8 in the way Legacy BIOS is detected.
More ideas.
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Report in Bugzilla the issue. Specify that what is needed is a way to
tell the installer to bypass the UEFI/BIOS detection, and install in
traditional, MBR, method. This may take years (at least, till next
release), unless it already exists. Add a link to this thread. -
Installing an openSUSE version that is not UEFI aware because it is
too old. I would suggest 11.4, maybe older. Then it can be upgraded to
13.1 via the offline method. Ask me about the upgrade later if you need. -
Try to install with all the hard disks removed, except the
destination disk. Just a wild idea, not based on anything. -
Take that hard disk to another computer, which does not have UEFI, or
that can be set in traditional mode. Install openSUSE there, then move
the disk back. -
Install from inside vmware player. The destination of the
installation can be a real hard disk, not a file in the host system. I
have done this, it works… When installation of the virtual machine has
finished, that disk can be booted standalone - but first, you have to
change entries in fstab and run mkinitrd, because identificators change.
Use “by-label” if possible. After the system runs, you have to remove
the vmware client modules.
Vmware emulates a BIOS (by default at least), so that the openSUSE
install disk sees BIOS, not UEFI, and will install in MBR mode. Problem:
the host system has to be running in a different disk, and this is not
the case, I understand. I mean, you need an entire real disk to give to
vmware, not some partitions.
- ??
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)