Hi. I’ve installed openSUSE leap kde on an old Compaq CQ58 pc. However, when I rebooted to complete the install, the windows bootloader pops up after boot and says Recovery or somethin like that. Is it possible to change the boot order or permanently delete the windows entry?
Specs: 2gb ram , 500 gb hdd. (It runs well)
Have you disabled fast boot in Windows?
I rebooted before installing, and no, i didn’t do a dual boot. I erased the entire disk.
And when i say that i can’t boot it, i mean it boots the windows bootloader straight into a recovery loop.
Opensuse leap boots fine though.
Are you using UEFI or legacy BIOS?
CQ58 is a series of models that included both AMD and Intel CPUs, and both AMD and Intel GPUs, so you haven’t really told us anything meaningful about your hardware.
i didn’t do a dual boot. I erased the entire disk.
And when i say that i can’t boot it, i mean it boots the windows bootloader straight into a recovery loop.
Opensuse leap boots fine though.
If you in fact erased the entire disk, then it shouldn’t have any remnant of Windows remaining to loop, unless this is a UEFI PC. How are you getting around the loop to boot Leap “fine”? If you have a UEFI PC, you may be able to fix this simply by a change of boot priority in BIOS setup.
I’m using UEFI. I disabled legacy bios.
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Old systems often have troubles with UEFI boot.
Installer cannot accomplish the last step and write new boot parameter in BIOS.
You may write it by force or use additional boot loader, such as rEFInd.
BIOS update may help.
Another trouble: some old UEFI systems don’t support 32-bit FAT for ESP, whereas with 16-bit FAT they work OK.