From: heinz.julmy@cinci.rr.com   
      
   Markus Koßmann wrote:   
      
   > Heinz Julmy wrote:   
   >   
   >> Markus Koßmann wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Heinz Julmy wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Markus Koßmann wrote:   
   >>>>> If yes, could you show us the output of os-prober ( run as root from   
   >>>>> commandline)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nothing here ...   
   >>>> Not a good sign, right?   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes, os-prober is used to create the bootmenu entries for other OSses   
   >>> dynamically.   
   >>>   
   >>> There is some special setup on your system that might cause the problem   
   >>> with os-prober:   
   >>> You have two BIOS boot partitions ( sda1 and sda8 ). Normally there   
   >>> should be only one BIOS boot partition, which should be mounted at   
   >>> /boot/efi on your linux system.   
   >>   
   >> Okay, yes you're right, didn't see those 2 partions. One partition is FAT   
   >> Type an the other seems to be not formatted. Does this makes sense then?   
   >> Not formatted means nothing there, right? I mounted the FAT to /boot/efi   
   >> but did not work. No option during boot process. I checked afterwards and   
   >> the partition is mounted   
   >>   
   >> drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 efi   
   >>   
   >> does this sound okay?   
   > The question is where does the Microsoft bootloader live. If there are no   
   > files on sda1, it can't be used for booting Windows.   
   > Might it be that sda2 contains the Microsoft bootloader ? That means that   
   > there is a directory called EFI with a subdirectory called Microsoft.   
   >   
   > Might it be that you've installed Opensuse in legacy Bios mode? But with   
   > GPT Windows supports only UEFI mode. In that case you probably have to   
   > reinstall Opensuse in UEFI mode.   
   > Often the BIOS provides two options for a bootable Installation media (   
   > UEFI and legacy) and if you've chosen the wrong option, because the other   
   > option was scrolled out of sight, that might have happened   
      
      
   Hmm, okay. Thanks.   
   I checked, but the above mentioned partition sda1, Type BIOS Grub which I   
   mounted to /boot/efi seems to be empty (what's then with the folder size of   
   the 17384 KiB?).   
   The other partition (sda8) seems to be not formatted which means I lost my   
   windows boot configuration, right?   
   So to reinstall opensuse does not make sense and I have to try to get the   
   boot information from somewhere I guess.   
   Furthermore, Yast offers a "GRUB2 for EFI" boot option. This that's not   
   helping, right?   
      
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