[ale] Toshiba laptop

Cornelis van Dijk cor.angela0 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 14:56:33 EDT 2015


Success! I got both Windows and Linux to boot after reinstalling
linux. Thus far no major problems. I am somewhat puzzled by the new
partitions, but I will worry about that later.

 My first impulse was also"The empire strikes back", but that is
probably bs. Windows offers several partition tools, why would they do
that if they want to be disruptive?


Anyway, thank for the suggestions, they were quite helpful.

Cor van Dijk











































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































On 6/11/15, Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the input. I turned off the secure boot. That got me the
> Windows back. I am now making system backups,  (takes forever) then
> I'll try the linux again.
>
> Cor van Dijk
>
> On 6/11/15, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
>> The Empire Strikes Back!
>>
>> (Sorry.)
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>>> I purchased a Toshiba laptop. It came with Windows 8 installed.
>>> I tried to make it dual boot with suse linux 13.2. That worked ok for
>>> a day or two.
>>>
>>> Then Windows began installing a bunch of updates. After that  could no
>>> longer access
>>> the linux partition. Not only that but the hard drive could no longer
>>> not be repartitioned.
>>> "No mount point found" was the message. So I could not reinstall linux.
>>>
>>> With the help of Yast I was able to work somewhat around that problem.
>>> But now I lost the
>>> Windows. So far I have not found a solution for that problem. Yast
>>> still lists a bunch of
>>> partitions, but they are all listed as /dev/mapper/TOSHIBA... and they
>>> resist opening.
>>>
>>> I am fairly sure that the Windows stuff is still there, but how to get
>>> to it, let alone boot?
>>>
>>> Anybody knows what is going on? Thanks in advance for any help or
>>> suggestion.
>>>
>>> Cor van Dijk
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