Need Guidance to avoid Boot Problems

Hi
Yes, as root user…

done. It did boot to windows and did shut down after numerous windows upgrades.

On reboot, only openSUSE 42.2 showed on the boot screen. Dolphin was able to access the Windows boot partition with no error message.

What next?

Cordially,
TwoHoot

Hi
Fire up YaST bootloader and on the last tab check that probe foreign OS is enabled, change the timeout to say 7 seconds (need to ensure it writes to the changes to disk), reboot and windows and openSUSE should be in the grub menu for you to boot from…

An anomaly - while saving after clicking OK, there is a message saying I need to install package mokutil. The options are install or cancel.

Go ahead and install it? Is it related to what we are dong?

Hi
Yes, that’s needed to import updated openSUSE shim keys when booting…

It works like a charm! Thank you.

I have been using openSUSE for years but have to come here for technical help if anything out of the ordinary comes up. Can you recommend a course I might take to at least understand what something like a “shim key” might be and do?

I am always amazed at how the experts here (like you) seem to have immediate understanding about what is wrong.

My next task is upgrading my wife’s computer from 13.2 to 42.2. I dread it because she isn’t very tolerant of change. I am sure I will be back asking dumb questions soon.

Again, Thank you.

Cordially,
TwoHoot

Hi
No problem, glad you have it all sorted :slight_smile:

The shim if for secure boot, have a read here;
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI

So the real issue was that Windows had not shutdown so the os-prober application could not run (get to the windows partition), therefore unable to add to GRUB Menu… Once you cleared that issue up, all was good…

My Wife uses SLED on her laptop, need to update that to SP2 soon…

There are a lot of gaps between what I know and the shim article. What is a systematic way to go about filling them? Do I need to learn command line linux first or learn how the kernel is organized?

So far (for years), I have just flown by the seat of my pants, installed openSUSE and asked questions about how to accomplish the task at hand. My knowledge is very spotty. I would like to pull it all together so I can understand the big picture. Where do I start and what are the priorities?

I am almost 74 years old and need intense projects to keep my mind sharp. My wife has some serious health problems that require my presence so our real world is getting smaller. One way to compensate is to make our online world larger. I would like to be able to contribute solutions to the newcomers on the forum like you and others do.

Hi
Learning the command line stuff is always good, never know when the desktop won’t come up… learning simple editing a text file with vi is a good starting point as well…

I find picking something with an end goal and learn on the way, for example I’m playing with Raspberry Pi 3’s at the moment, getting the GPIO outputs/inputs doing things…

Keep an eye on the forum threads and jump in on them if you have advice :slight_smile:

Thank you. I will probably start with getting proficient with terminal commands.

Also, there is a lot of help and reference material that I seldom use because it is easier to ask the forum. Learning to access it and how it is organized might be an important goal. It would also allow me to contribute to the forum instead of always taking.

I have been a computer enthusiast going back to the mainframe days of Fortran, punch cards and gang printers. The Apple IIe was a dream come true! From the earliest days, it seemed to me that a computer’s power lay in organizing information - not in replacing human intelligence but feeding humans information in a concise, efficient manner. Maybe I should learn PhP and MySQL.

There are lots of opportunities in my changing universe.