Thinkpad E485: AMD Ryzen 5

i did a new installation on a separate ssd and disabled the installed windows ssd. It seemed to install properly, using boot options ivrs_ioapic[32]=00.14.1 ivrs_ioapic[33]=00.0.1

But upon reboot, it would just go to the Boot Manager . I select the ssd where suse installed, it just goes back to that Boot Manager. No messages or anything.

UEFI is turned off in BIOS and set to boot in Legacy only.

Live USB works, installation works too, but booting afterwards doesn't.


Suggestions?

Which release of windows are you using? Is it installed UEFI? If you installed opensuse in Legacy mode, did you select the option to install Grub to the MBR of the SSD on which you installed opensuse? If you have a Legacy install of opensuse and an EFI install of windows I would not expect you to be able to boot windows from the opensuse Grub menu. Did you want to select boot from the BIOS?

With both drives attached, boot the opensuse installer and run this command and post the output here: parted -l
Lower Case Letter L in the command, needs to be run as root.

Windows 10 UEFI.
First time around I didn't choose anything, second time I chose to install MBR in the last step of installation, same thing.

I wrote the command with the above 2 and nothing different happened.

Boot USB with all disks attached, run the script from https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript and paste the output where we can see a more complete picture of what you have and have done.

When the grub screen pops up, try hitting 'e', and check what's in there. Post it if you don't know what it means.

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UPDATE: I now able to boot into desktop but through the usb. Any way to have menu to choose between linux and win without usb?

Yes, you'll need the bootloader: Grub.

As yancek asked previously did you install grub to the MBR when you installed Open Suse?

Once grub is installed boot into suse and update grub.

I reinstalled using these settings, still same issue.
https://imgur.com/a/0rsQ9Sc
https://imgur.com/5Jzj3R3

susepaste.org works better, susepaste easier.

it's just an image. do you want me to upload there?

Yes. You need to install both windows 10 and opensuse UEFI in order to have a Grub boot menu with entries for both systems. If you don't do that and you show that you did not, you will need to select the windows drive from the BIOS on boot and the opensuse drive from the BIOS on boot.

Boot the opensuse install media and go to the link posted above in post 4 and download the script and run it and post that information here.

How do I use that script when I can't even boot to linux? Do you mean I use a Live USB? I installed suse using regular bootable usb, not live.
In that case, I'll create a bootable live usb.

https://paste.opensuse.org/62489933


Why there are so many 40gb partitions in my nvme?

The script didn't produce very much that is useful other than that your windows is a Legacy (non-EFI) install with windows boot code in the MBR of that drive. The only info on the SSD on which you installed Opensuse is blkid and ls -l /dev/disk/by-id output. No infor on boot files. I'm not sure if that is because the install failed or if the script has problems with SSD drives. You indicated above that windows10 was UEFI which would be the default, particularly on an OEM install but there is no sign of an EFI partition on the drive.

In the 2nd image in your post 8 you show a setting on your Suse install page "Install boot code into MBR" and it shows (do not install). Did you change that? If you did and you have the Suse SSD set to first boot priority in the BIOS, I don't know why it would not boot.

I can re-enable UEFI in bios and reinstall windows in the 2nd ssd.

As for the MBR, I did change that but no avail. I also manually select boot nvme but it won't boot to suse.