Hi,
I have installed opensuse 13.1 twice, 1st from USB stick, 2nd from DVD. In both cases everything went smoothly until I rebooted my system after the installation concluded.
I removed then the USB/DVD and the HDD does not boot. Any suggestion?
I was very excited with installing this new release but kind of a bit dissapointed now.
The install involves a couple reboots, it’s possible the system is still in the middle of installation.
What do you see immediately before the system reboots?
TSU
Reboot and Select the proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press any key
In my previous attempts I opted for btrfs in the last one I opted by the automatic installation but still the same results.
My system is an Asus B43J laptop with 8GB of RAM and a 120GB SSD
Using a known file system like ext4 rules out that it’s a btrfs problem, all right. You have a problem with the boot loader. It’s written on a place where your system doesn’t find it so when changing the boot order in bios in order to boot from usb/cd first you did leave the SDD in, did you?
It’s a BIOS or UEFI system?
What’s the partition scheme?
What is the actual error, maybe I am to tired to see it but you have not mentioned it. Does it load grub?
Well ‘Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press any key’ isn’t grub… the references of the laptop give reviews from 2011 when you use google, so I guess it’s not an EFI problem.
On 2013-11-24 09:46, erch wrote:
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> Reboot and Select the proper Boot device
> or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press any key
That is not grub.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Same issue with new install on HP2000 with AMD E-300 and UEFI BIOS set to Legacy. After several attempts, finally figured out to uncheck AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION for ext4 that will require to manually edit the Partition Table to setup the appropriate /boot and / sdax. This was the only way /boot/efi would format with FAT. Also, even though opensuse 13.1 is not booting with EFI BIOS enabled, there was not issues with the hard drive booting with /boot/efi and bootloader GRUB2-EFI. The great news is this was a previous laptop with opensuse 12.2 and decided to do a new install with ext4 and the entire /home accounts were not corrupted. Everything works perfectly and really love the new KDE GUI!!!
Check the following links containing some screenshots of my installation process:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Install-1.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Install-2.jpg
For some reason the boot/grub2/x86_64-efi subvolume is not accessible at boot time
Grub does not know BTRFS so you must put /boot on a separate partition formatted ext2/4 to boot. ie /boot can not be on BTRFS
Previous screenshots were from Btrfs install.
The same error happens when using Ext4.
Screenshots for Ext4 install at:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Install_Ext4-1.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Install_Ext4-2.jpg
In both cases I get the following errors:
When bootting from the installation media and select Boot from hard disk
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Boot_Error-1.jpg
When bootting directly from the hard disk:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105943056/Boot_Error-2.jpg
You don’t have anything in the MBR you need to install grub code to the MBR or you can install generic and flag the root partition
I have same situation with erch.The installation went smoothly until I rebooted my system.It seems to nothing happen.The system still boot to USB,and when I choose “Boot from hard disk”.It came back to boot USB.
I use Haswell Intel CPU with MSI H81-P33.I choose UEFI + legacy option.I use both DVD and KDE live iso.Now I can’t install 13.1 in my new PC.
Thank for help.
If Windows is installed EFI then you should install Linux as EFI. In theory you can mix modes and have legacy and EFI mixed. But it can be very hard to impossible to achieve and depends on the exact EFI BIOS that is supplied by the manufacturer. It is better not to mix modes ie if Windows is installed as legacy then Linux should also.
Never mix never worry