[WLUG] Installling Linux with UEFI?

[Jan Wolter]

I've installed Linux on a lot of computers, which isn't much to boast
about because it's always been easy.

It's stopped being easy.

I bought an HP Envy 700-210 with Windows 8 early this year, and tried to
install OpenSUSE 13.1 on it as a dual boot with Windows 8.  After weeks
of fighting with UEFI I got it where it would boot reliably into
OpenSUSE, but if you booted it into Windows then it would rewrite the
boot partition so it wouldn't boot into Linux any more.

Then work things happened, and I abandoned that computer till today. I
decided to make a fresh start. I'd fix the problem with Windows 8
rewriting the boot partition by getting rid of Windows 8.

So I did a fresh install of OpenSUSE 13.2, telling it to take over the
whole disk, erasing Windows.  The install from DVD goes fine, it tries
to reboot, and fails.

If I tell the BIOS to boot from the Hard Disk, it says:

  Boot Device Not Found
  Please Install an operating system on your hard disk

Yeah. Thanks.

I found that if I boot off the install DVD, the first menu that comes up
has an option to boot off the hard disk. That works. But the BIOS can't
boot from the hard disk directly.

I currently have "Secure Boot" disabled and "Legacy Support" enabled,
because that was needed to boot the DVD.

Does anyone know how to install OpenSUSE on this machine? Or where to
find instructions?

I can't believe this is hard. If all Linux installs are this hard now,
Linux is dead.

                                  - Jan