Just underwent a few hours of baptism by fire
M$ is truly trying to take over the world … in a very evil way! They have gotten manufactures to install this new UEFI BIOS on their computers and if you try and install Linux (in this case openSuSE 12.1) by completely formatting the drive, the install works but can never boot into Linux Once you reboot it just hangs there saying it cannot see a disk with a valid OS What you have to do is make a boot partition that is formatted as FAT32 (say 4GB in size) On that 4GB put /boot Then partition and format the rest of the computer how you like with EXT4 or your favorite filesystem Without Bios detecting FAT32 on the boot partition it claims it cannot see the hard disk and the BIOS Error message is "check the cables"! You can imagine the hell we went through! We were nearly blaming the supplier that the BRAND new machines they supplied must have come off some boat from China. All is well that ends well as they say Kiggs -- Acta Virum Probant -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
