Hi folks,
Sorry to open another thread but it seems that everybody seems to be having different problems to me.
That might be wrong but I will try to get this sorted.
I have a new HP Pavillion g6 With preinstalled windows 8. Last week I tried and largely failed to get a satisfactory dualboot with Ubuntu 12.10.
I had to pull the pin on Ubuntu as I was having trouble with it and I hate its UI.
Anyway someone recommended openSUSE so now I am trying that.
I have installed windows 8 and openSUSE from the DVD. The suse installation was a UEFI installation and has left me with what I think is two efi partitions.
One from the Windows installation
sda2 (a fat32 partition named EFI system partition)
sda7 (a fat 16 partition which was created during the suse installation. When I run efibootmgr this show up as opensuse.)
The goal is to have a choice of one or the other when I turn the thing on. I suppose Grub2 if that will work.
At the moment when I power on, it boots to windows 8.
In order to boot openSuse I need to interrupt the start up with <esc> and select opensuse from the boot device menu, which in turn takes me to a lovely green graphical openSUSE boot menu.
Interestingly I can also get to the same SUSE boot menu in 3 steps from the lovely windows 8 boot menu, but by picking the right one of 3 identically named hard disks. Also windows links on that list don't work.
Before UEFI I didn't really have to worry about this stuff so please let me know what I can do to clarify this a bit better.
But can anyone suggest how I can sort this? It would be much appreciated.
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