OpenSUSE dual boot with Windows 10 issues?

Novatian · 07-07-2018, 07:58 AM

I have looked for tutorials on dual booting Gecko Linux and OpenSUSE with Windows 10. I found one, it did seem very straight forward, from 2013. It did not seem to have any UEFI issues. I am not sure if the computer to install on uses UEFI.

The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6LZ7EWYUE

He uses a virtual box?

The target computer is an HP from 2012, with an i5 processor, 160 GB HDD. And 7GB DDR3 RAM. With a PCI dual monitor video card. I added 3 GB RAM from a purchase. It has 2.0 USB ports. WiFi by a purchased USB dongle.

I want dual boot Gecko Linux onto it, giving it about 80GB and 14GB RAM.

Advice is asked for.

yancek · 07-07-2018, 09:27 AM

You should be able to tell if your hardware is EFI compatible simply by entering the BIOS and looking for an EFI option. Another option is to boot and Linux Live DVD/usb and from a terminal as root run:

Code:

parted -l

That's a lower case letter L in the command. If you are using EFI, an EFI partition will show in the output. What do you have installed now, what OS?

Novatian · 07-08-2018, 12:32 AM

I have Windows 10, and I have a GParted Stick.

yancek · 07-08-2018, 05:49 AM

Does GParted show a partition listed as EFI? If the computer is from 2012, probably not EFI but you can see that either with GParted which will tell if you have an EFI partition or not. If windows 10 was pre-installed, it would most likely have been EFI. You should be able to tell if the hardware is EFI in the BIOS.

Novatian · 07-09-2018, 04:29 AM

The terminal command gave no results, and looking through the options at start up via F10, there is no mention of EFI.

yancek · 07-09-2018, 05:19 AM

Quote:

The terminal command gave no results

Are you referring to the "parted -l" command because it certainly should give results if run as root (using sudo) from your GParted.

If you don't see any reference to EFI in the BIOS, a 6 years old computer probably did not have EFI. I'm not sure what your actual question is, how to boot windows 10, Open suse and gecko?

Knightron · 07-21-2018, 07:39 PM

You're not being clear about what you have and what you want.

To my understanding you have a laptop that currently has OpenSUSE and Window 10 installed on it. Is that correct?

You would like to make your computer triboot those two operating systems plus Gecko Linux. Is that correct?