Installed Leap 15 and there was no windows partition on GRUB

[Dr_Mat_Hunt]

@malcolmlewis

Hi
Hardware these days (and expectations) has moved from Legacy (MBR/msdos) to UEFI (EFI/CSM/gpt) so pairing the two up has nothing to do with operating systems, but the expectations are. Since your new SSD is gpt, an operating install assumes efi and move forward, this would apply to both winX and linux operating systems…

So, I think in this case since you may not want to re-install WinX(?) then you need to look at wiping the SSD and setting to type msdos rather than gpt and re-installing openSUSE.

You can change over via booting from the install medium and using gdisk to delete the partitions on /dev/sdc and then hit the x key then the z key (expert mode and zap) then press w and answer y to wiping the disk and mbr. Then use the command fdisk to prep the drive as msdos and re-install openSUSE.

Now just be sure to create a small /boot (200MB?) on the SSD and ensure openSUSE uses this for booting from AND the boot code is installed in /dev/sdc (not any other disk).

Then in your system BIOS, you need to select /dev/sdc to be the boot disk… openSUSE and os-prober should the find you winX install and chainload it.

Note, I would imagine on a winX update it’s likely to want to set everything back to it being the boss, who knows… In saying that winX UEFI booting does play a lot better with other OSes being installed in my experience.

So at a basic starting point, reformat BOTH drives and start again?

SUSE start up will automatically assign sizes for partitions, so I’m not worried about that.

I have to play things through carefully as I have to do this in expert mode and it won’t do it in normal mode?

[malcolmlewis]

@Dr_Mat_Hunt

So at a basic starting point, reformat BOTH drives and start again?

SUSE start up will automatically assign sizes for partitions, so I’m not worried about that.

I have to play things through carefully as I have to do this in expert mode and it won’t do it in normal mode?

Hi
No, reformating is only part, you need to set the disk type to msdos not gpt, which is an extra step. Hardware manufacturers expect systems to be UEFI and set to gpt type these days…

If you look at your output in post number 5, in your output the line with “Partition Table” you have a mixture of msdos and gpt, any disk you intend to boot from in your case sda and sdc need to be of the same type;

For legacy boot type msdos
For UEFI boot type gpt

Any other disks (data storage) can be of either type it doesn’t matter, however in saying that I prefer gpt since it protects the mbr area from being written to…

Legacy boot IMHO is old school now, if you plan to go UEFI then I would re-install both operating systems but use two efi partitions since you have multiple disks…

Perhaps advise your plan and see what info our forum users can provide you

[nrickert]

@Dr_Mat_Hunt

I typed the commends exactly as you documented them and I still didn’t get the results. I think that it possibly means that you didn’t have the correct solution.

And that’s why I would need to be physically at the computer to see what is on the screen at each step. Giving a sequence of commands for “gdisk” (as I did) can only be based on guessing what the response would be.

You could have kept a record and reported back in this thread on where you thought something was going wrong. But you have not done that.

[Fraser_Bell]

@Dr_Mat_Hunt

Are you saying that it can’t be done? I am fairly familiar with SUSE, having used it before when it worked FLAWLESSLY, this was version 13.2 perhaps?

… it still works flawlessly in the latest TW and in Leap 15.0 for most of us.

Which is why Neil suggests to you that you need to find a Linux person near you and get them to come in and take a look, see what is causing your unusual problem. It seems to me, reading this long thread, that is going to be the only solution to get you up and running.

[Fraser_Bell]

@Dr_Mat_Hunt

I’ll add this is the FIRST time installing ANY version of Linux that this has happened.

Google disagrees with you on this.:\