[WLUG] Installling Linux with UEFI?

[Jeff Hanson]

It's been a while since I did a UEFI dual-boot.  IIRC, the tricky part was
making sure Grub had a small "shim" partition to install itself to.  It
required a specific partition type.  I still had problems getting it to
boot Ubuntu and had to Boot-Repair to fix it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jan Wolter <jan at unixpapa.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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