HI,im a new windows 8 laptop owner and wish to get my loved openSuse installed.
I got an HP envy m6 series.
I was able to disable uefi and go back to legacy. I also formatted the disk and tried my hardest to get windows 7 installed on it and be rid of this windows 8, but was unsuccessful. I was faced with a finished install and then cannot configure to run on this hardware error. But this is not why I am here. I scratched the windows 7 and went back to windows 8 to give it a chance, So I blanked the disk and let windows 8 create its two partitions it wanted to for install, leaving the rest un partitioned. I am in legacy BIOS mode at this point.
The windows install went fine. I then booted to the openSuse 12.2 install “DVD” to give that a go. A first I was greeted by a partitioning error. I was un able to partition my un partitioned space.
SO I booted back into my Windows 8 Install CD and partitioned the rest of the disk using that. I set aside 25GB for /, and 400ish for /home. I wasnt able to create a swap because its partitioned wouldn’t allow me to create an extended partition. So now I have 4 primary partitions.
I boot back into the openSuse 12.2 DVD and set up and format both the 25GB and 400ish GB partitions and install openSuse 12.2.
After the install I had no Grub or nothing linux related. All I had was a bootable windows 8. It seems maybe Grub was unable to install itself?
So after describing what I have gone through, can anyone suggest anything I can do to get this installed and booting and partitioned with a swap, etc?
> The windows install went fine. I then booted to the openSuse 12.2
> install “DVD” to give that a go. A first I was greeted by a partitioning
> error. I was un able to partition my un partitioned space.
Which error…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
So it may be that this disk is using a GPT Partition of some sort. You could create an openSUSE LiveCD to boot from if you have more than one PC or if Windows still does work. Use it then to perform a function like this which I found a procedure like you might could use here: Wiping Out Old GPT Data, but it could only be done from a LiveCD I think. Or, just take the expert advise, blow away the partition and start over again.
On 2012-11-10 03:16, changedsoul wrote:
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> robin_listas;2502693 Wrote:
>> On 2012-11-10 01:26,
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>> Which error…
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> There is a link you can click which I provided where you can see
> exactly what error I got.
There is no link.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
So it may be that this disk is using a GPT Partition of some sort.
I don’t know much about this new GPT stuff, so I can’t say for sure if it is or not. I can say for sure that it “was” when I first got the laptop. I am not sure if using the windows installer to format the disk, after booting the computer in legacy mode, would leave intact the GPT or convert to MBR.
An fdisk output could be interesting.
thats a good idea. I’ll screen shot later today and post a link. I’m about to head to work.
Ok, so I followed the instruction “jdmcdaniel3” posted in that link. They worked awesome. It seems the disk did have some GPT remnants on it. I used gdisk and zapped the gpt stuff off, booted my opensuse install cd, and everything went as smooth as butter.
Seems it even installed grub 2, added all the menu entries for windows 8, and I am now dual booting. Much thanks!!!
