UEFI is meant as a replacement of BIOS, so technically it is not a BIOS. :)
But yeah, I have seen similar reports from all over the place. UEFI makes the world a bit troublesome for us sane luggers. One question: Is there a reason why you have such an absurdly large /boot partition? Mine has never occupied more than ~100MB. On 23 May 2012 16:38, Kiggundu Mukasa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. >
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