<div dir="ltr">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: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jan Wolter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan@unixpapa.com" target="_blank">jan@unixpapa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've installed Linux on a lot of computers, which isn't much to boast<br>
about because it's always been easy.<br>
<br>
It's stopped being easy.<br>
<br>
I bought an HP Envy 700-210 with Windows 8 early this year, and tried to<br>
install OpenSUSE 13.1 on it as a dual boot with Windows 8. After weeks<br>
of fighting with UEFI I got it where it would boot reliably into<br>
OpenSUSE, but if you booted it into Windows then it would rewrite the<br>
boot partition so it wouldn't boot into Linux any more.<br>
<br>
Then work things happened, and I abandoned that computer till today. I<br>
decided to make a fresh start. I'd fix the problem with Windows 8<br>
rewriting the boot partition by getting rid of Windows 8.<br>
<br>
So I did a fresh install of OpenSUSE 13.2, telling it to take over the<br>
whole disk, erasing Windows. The install from DVD goes fine, it tries<br>
to reboot, and fails.<br>
<br>
If I tell the BIOS to boot from the Hard Disk, it says:<br>
<br>
Boot Device Not Found<br>
Please Install an operating system on your hard disk<br>
<br>
Yeah. Thanks.<br>
<br>
I found that if I boot off the install DVD, the first menu that comes up<br>
has an option to boot off the hard disk. That works. But the BIOS can't<br>
boot from the hard disk directly.<br>
<br>
I currently have "Secure Boot" disabled and "Legacy Support" enabled,<br>
because that was needed to boot the DVD.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how to install OpenSUSE on this machine? Or where to<br>
find instructions?<br>
<br>
I can't believe this is hard. If all Linux installs are this hard now,<br>
Linux is dead.<br>
<br>
- Jan<br>
<br>
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