MB: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5
OS: Opensuse 15.2
I recently installed Opensuse 15.2 on my server and, as I added software and utilities, have made ongoing images in the advent of failure. To image the drive I booted from the SATA DVD with Clonezilla and plugged in an external USB drive to receive the image. Currently I have four images on that drive.
More recently, I found that I cannot boot into Clonezilla using the SATA DVD drive or from an external USB DVD drive. Doing some investigating I found that UEFI has been activated. When I enter CMOS there is a boot entry named OPENSUSE. I have not a clue how this happened - I made no knowing changes to the system to cause this.
So I tried to disable UEFI. In CMOS I have three options: UEFI ONLY, LEGACY ONLY, UEFI AND LEGACY.
I called Gigabyte USA tech support. I was instructed to plug the SATA DVD into port 5 and set it to IDE mode. No difference.
So I would appreciate any thoughts & suggestions you might have. Surely there has to be a way to disable UEFI to boot a utility with a DVD or USB drive.
OS: Opensuse 15.2
I recently installed Opensuse 15.2 on my server and, as I added software and utilities, have made ongoing images in the advent of failure. To image the drive I booted from the SATA DVD with Clonezilla and plugged in an external USB drive to receive the image. Currently I have four images on that drive.
More recently, I found that I cannot boot into Clonezilla using the SATA DVD drive or from an external USB DVD drive. Doing some investigating I found that UEFI has been activated. When I enter CMOS there is a boot entry named OPENSUSE. I have not a clue how this happened - I made no knowing changes to the system to cause this.
So I tried to disable UEFI. In CMOS I have three options: UEFI ONLY, LEGACY ONLY, UEFI AND LEGACY.
- When I choose any option but UEFI ONLY, when booting I get a black screen with an oversize cursor.
- Setting it back to UEFI ONLY I can boot to the system drive but when I attempt to boot to a SATA DVD or USB DVD an error message appears telling me to Select a valid device and reboot.
- I found an option under OpenSUSE Boot to disable UEFI but again, no change.
I called Gigabyte USA tech support. I was instructed to plug the SATA DVD into port 5 and set it to IDE mode. No difference.
So I would appreciate any thoughts & suggestions you might have. Surely there has to be a way to disable UEFI to boot a utility with a DVD or USB drive.