Installing 64-bit SuSE 12.1 on an UEFI notebook

[ratzi]

@please_try_again

If I recall correctly, you tried to install openSUSE together with Windows in UEFI mode on the same hard disk and did not succeed. You were not the only one. In the meantime, we - actually @arvidjaar - found out that openSUSE setup will create a hybrid MBR because Windows protective MBR doesn’t totally comply with UEFI standards. There is a quite long thread in the forum which describes the issue as well as the solution.

I tried several things, assisted by you.

Installing win7 first created partitions that could no longer be handled by any other system.

Installing openSUSE 12.1 first, win7 would no longer install.

Yes, the hybrid MBR (created by win7) played a role in that.

The thread was
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/475347-error-occurred-while-installing-grub-during-os-11-4-installation-error-25-asus-efi-bios.html

The best to all of you
Mike

[rstse]

@ratzi

Hey rstse - I mean the starter of the thread that only wrote the 1st post -
are you still reading?

Thanks. I have been reading. Thank all the posts.
The headline contained a typo. I did mean 12.2.
But I still have a problem to solve!

[ratzi]

@rstse

But I still have a problem to solve!

So you would like to go on here, right?

To say it clearly:
I’m using 12.1, and don’t have specific experience with 12.2 yet.

Difficulties to answer your question result from a few points in your 1st post:

@rstse

4. Then I managed to create dev/sda7 for / and /dev/sda8 for /home.

5. After partitioning, I let the SuSE installer install the 64-bit 12.2 system. Most files went in smoothly until boot loader installation and configuration., which became slow but went through.

6. The installer wanted a reboot before continuing.

7. This is where the problem arose. My laptop is a recently manufactured Asus unit …

Your point 5:
Question 1: did you get the SUSE installer to install on /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8 without modifying pratitions?
Question 2: the SUSE installer usually installs a boot loader. Which one was it? Do you recall that?

Your point 7:
In the end you didn’t describe the kind of problems that you faced.
And/Or you didn’t describe the difference in behaviour after the installation of openSUSE.
Especially the latter would be important.

A further important question:
Did you boot in UEFI mode when starting from the openSUSE installer DVD?
Otherwise an UEFI installation of openSUSE couldn’t have been taken place.

And hopefully you did use the DVD instead of a live CD for installation.
At least under 12.1 the live CD wouldn’t boot in UEFI mode, as far as I remember.