<div dir="ltr">Many BIOSes I've seen allow you to set "boot mode" to 'Legacy' effectively turning off UEFI...<div><br></div><div>Is that an option for you?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>F.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Crap!! I just spent another 3-4 hours downloading and installing openSUSE 12.3<br>
only to get the same result when I tried to start: "Operating system not<br>
found."<br>
<br>
What is one supposed to do? I've been an enthusiast for Linux for about 12 years<br>
now, but this is getting ridiculous. Why aren't things getting better rather<br>
than worse?<br>
<br>
UEFI enabled systems are 3-4 years old now. Why can't the installers handle<br>
them?<br>
<br>
There don't seem to be any of the options mentioned here in either the Fedora or<br>
the openSUSE installation processes.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Quoting Josh <<a href="mailto:leapole@gmail.com">leapole@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> Might want to check and see if you need the efi kernel also. I know cents has<br>
> a special install disc for that<br>
><br>
><br>
> > On Oct 11, 2013, at 6:02 PM, <a href="mailto:andross@gmail.com">andross@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > It looks like an EFI issue, which can get quite despicable. You can usually<br>
> enable a default BIOS fallback mode in the EFI setup, which will let you<br>
> finish a normal distro install. Then you can install and configure grub2-efi,<br>
> reboot the computer, and enjoy.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:10 PM, megadave <<a href="mailto:megadave@gmail.com">megadave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> Check your BIOS/CMOS for some sort of "protect boot sector" options -<br>
> >> some systems had that as crude defense against (windows based)<br>
> >> boot-sector viruses, and block attempts to write the MBR of the hard<br>
> >> drive. Obviously you need to turn these off, if you find them and they<br>
> >> are enabled.<br>
> >><br>
> >> What machine is this? Is it an OEM machine or a built one?<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM, <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> > After giving up on FedUp, I downloaded the DVD for Fedora 19 and three<br>
> times<br>
> >> > tried to install it. The first two times at about 60% of files copied<br>
> it<br>
> >> > croaked and left me at the Live User Screen. The third time (I went<br>
> directly to<br>
> >> > 'install' rather than selecting it from Live User) it finished<br>
> installing etc<br>
> >> > but then croaked trying to install the boot loader.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > At this point I went home and tried to install my old Fedora 17. It went<br>
> much<br>
> >> > more quickly but has also failed at the point of trying to install the<br>
> boot<br>
> >> > loader.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > In between I had tried to do a disk-install of Knoppix, but even when I<br>
> >> > formatted the disk to have the partitions that Knoppix wanted it kept<br>
> telling<br>
> >> > me that it couldn't find the appropriate partitions to install.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > So now my nice computer, that at least was working this morning, even<br>
> though<br>
> >> > Evo<br>
> >> > was giving me grief, now has apparently been bricked.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Anyone have any ideas? I'm downloading opensuse, but as I recall it<br>
> wouldn't<br>
> >> > work on this computer a couple of years ago when I went to Fedora. Maybe<br>
> it's<br>
> >> > better now.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > The fedora 17 installer created<br>
> >> > sda1 210MB fat16 EFI System Partition boot<br>
> >> > EFI (dir)<br>
> >> > redhat (dir)<br>
> >> > grub2-efi (dir)<br>
> >> > grub.efi<br>
> >> > mach_kernel<br>
> >> > System (dir)<br>
> >> > Library (dir)<br>
> >> > Core Services (dir)<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > sda2 524MB ext4<br>
> >> > config 3.3.4-5...<br>
> >> > efi (dir)<br>
> >> > elf-memtest86....<br>
> >> > grub (dir)<br>
> >> > grub2 (dir)<br>
> >> > initramfs....<br>
> >> > lost+found (dir)<br>
> >> > memtest86....<br>
> >> > System.map-3.3.4-5...<br>
> >> > vinLinux-3.3.4-5<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > sda3 57.3GB ext4<br>
> >> > bin (dir)<br>
> >> > boot (dir)<br>
> >> > dev (dir)<br>
> >> > ....<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > sda4 5.96GB swap<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > sda5 260GB ext4<br>
> >> > lost+found<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Can I find the right bootloader files and copy them in to the right<br>
> places?<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Thanks<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>