UEFI Installation Problems

[DarkXPSX]

I am basically new to the Linux scene and I am having issues with running openSUSE using UEFI and the GUID Partition Table.

To start off, I am installing openSUSE 12.2 x64 on a HP 2000-BF69WM Laptop along with Windows 8 x64. The laptop had Windows 8 pre-installed, but I did not like the HP junk that came along with it and the amount of time it takes to recover Windows 8 (4-6 hours). So I got a copy of Windows 8 on a DVD and reinstalled. Anyways…

I was capable of installing openSUSE along with Windows 8 after deleting all partitions and converting the Partition Table from GUID to MBR. The installer worked perfectly. It used the spare space on my HDD to create the partitions that it needed. The only problems that I ran into was that Grub did not detect Windows 8 the OS did not have the drivers for my Wireless Network card. I was able to find them on the forums and install them. After updating, the device stopped working.

After a couple of days I decided to try to get Windows 8 and openSUSE installed on a GPT and learn how to use the UEFI (Which I am still a bit confused about.).

Like an idiot, I used the Windows 8 Diskpart to convert the Partition Table back to GPT. It did not work, so I had to use a third party application to convert it.

Afterwards, I installed Windows 8 using a Flash Drive with Legacy Boot and Secure Boot off in the BIOS. No problems with the installation.

I inserted openSUSE disk into the drive, and let it boot.

When booting the disk, the installer hangs. The last part of information that shows up on the screen is this:

>>> openSUSE installation program V4.0.7 (c) 1996-2012 SUSE Linux Products GmbH <<<
Starting udev... udevd[112]: RUN+="socket:..." support will be removed from a future udev release. Please remove it from: /etc/udev/rules.d/71-multipath.rules:7 and use libudev to subscribe to events.

I tried booting using the option “linux-noGOP”. When I do, it hangs at “Skip GOP init, force text-mode.”

I thought that maybe the disk was not properly burned, so I burned another copy using ImbBurn and used the verify option to verify the disk. Everything was fine.

So, I tried the new disk, and no change.

Right now I am downloading openSUSE 12.3 RC1 x64. I am going to try to install this when I get home from work tomorrow morning. If it fails, I am going to reinstall Windows 8, because I will need my laptop on Sunday.

But if anyone has any ideas that might fix the issues or any other information that you may need to solve the problems, let me know.

It may take me a while to reply, due to me being very busy. So, please be patient.

Also, thank you for any help.

• DarkXPSX

[kientux]

Try install openSUSE 12.3, if nothing changes, you can use SUSE Studio ImageWriter to write the ĐVD ISO to flash drive and install from it

[ratzi]

Hi !

@DarkXPSX

I was capable of installing openSUSE along with Windows 8 after deleting all partitions and converting the Partition Table from GUID to MBR. The installer worked perfectly. It used the spare space on my HDD to create the partitions that it needed. The only problems that I ran into was that Grub did not detect Windows 8 the OS did not have the drivers for my Wireless Network card. I was able to find them on the forums and install them. After updating, the device stopped working.

It is a bit hard to understand which exactly was the state when you installed openSUSE.

You wrote

@DarkXPSX

I was capable of installing openSUSE along with Windows 8 after deleting all partitions and converting the Partition Table from GUID to MBR.

After deleting all partitions, windows 8 usually is gone, like everything else.

How exactly did you then convert the partition table ?

Did you then re-install windows 8 before attempting to install openSUSE ?

A lot of questions to which you may know the answers, but of course anybody here doesn’t.

Please give an overview of the state your HP 2000-BF69WM laptop is in now, before any further installation of openSUSE.

The best would be if you boot from a Linux live CD (openSUSE, GParted, …), open a terminal, say ‘su -’ to become root,
thereafter call ‘parted’, say ‘print’, say ‘quit’, copy the output from within that terminal and post it here,
and don’t change your system afterwards.

Good luck
Mike

[dvhenry]

I was capable of installing openSUSE along with Windows 8 after deleting all partitions and converting the Partition Table from GUID to MBR. The installer worked perfectly. It used the spare space on my HDD to create the partitions that it needed. The only problems that I ran into was that Grub did not detect Windows 8 the OS

After a couple of days I decided to try to get Windows 8 and openSUSE installed on a GPT and learn how to use the UEFI (Which I am still a bit confused about.).

Like an idiot, I used the Windows 8 Diskpart to convert the Partition Table back to GPT. It did not work, so I had to use a third party application to convert it.

Afterwards, I installed Windows 8 using a Flash Drive with Legacy Boot and Secure Boot off in the BIOS. No problems with the installation.

Did you use an openSUSE liveCD or the DVD? (for UFEI it should be the DVD and it should boot with elilo)

When you say converted from GPT to MBR, and from MBR to GPT, do you mean converted it, or replaced one with the other?

What is the third party app you used to “convert the partition table back to GPT” ?

As well as the ‘parted -l’ output requested earlier, can you give us ‘fdisk -l’ output ? (it should show the GPT warning and a partition with ID of 0xEE), or, better download this http://beefdrapes.partedmagic.com/pmagic_2013_02_08.isoburn it to CD, boot from it, It boots from UEFI, and has all tools needed to setup partitioning before install, then give us the output from this

gdisk /dev/sda