# EFI installation for 12?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337>\
**Category:** SLED Install-Boot\
**Created:** [November 10, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337 "2014-11-10T18:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![albumns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@albumns](https://forums.suse.com/u/albumns)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337/1 "2014-11-10T18:53:51Z")

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Hello:

I’ve got Dell M4800 laptop and I am going to install SLED 12 on it. It has a Windows 8.1 system and the boot was managed by EFI system. I noticed that my lived SUSE usb stick cannot boot from EFI system and I have to switch to lecacy…

I am just wondering how can we install SLED 12 in such kind of system?

Thank you very much.

best wishes

Albert

PS: I’ve submitted a wrong thread to SLES section, could anybody help me to delete? THX

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337/2 "2014-11-10T19:10:46Z")

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Hi  
Sounds like an issue with the USB device? I have SLED 12 UEFI Secure/Non Secure dual booting with windows 7, 8.1 and preview (10).

I used SUSE Studio imagewriter (from linux) to create my USB device (8GB), how did you create your usb device, sounds like it’s created as mbr and not efi…

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**Author:** ![albumns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@albumns](https://forums.suse.com/u/albumns)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337/3 "2014-11-10T19:17:20Z")

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Hello:

I also use imagewriter (from my openSUSE 13.1) to creat it. My USB device is 16 GB. I simple drug the SLED 12 .iso file into imagewriter interface. I don’t find any options that we can select UEFI mode for creating such kind of usb booting deveices…

THX alot

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;24771]Hi  
Sounds like an issue with the USB device? I have SLED 12 UEFI Secure/Non Secure dual booting with windows 7, 8.1 and preview (10).

I used SUSE Studio imagewriter (from linux) to create my USB device (8GB), how did you create your usb device, sounds like it’s created as mbr and not efi…[/QUOTE]

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/efi-installation-for-12/26337/4 "2014-11-10T19:55:42Z")

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[QUOTE=albumns;24772]Hello:

I also use imagewriter (from my openSUSE 13.1) to creat it. My USB device is 16 GB. I simple drug the SLED 12 .iso file into imagewriter interface. I don’t find any options that we can select UEFI mode for creating such kind of usb booting deveices…

THX alot[/QUOTE]  
Hi  
Ok, when you boot the system in UEFI Mode can you select the efi file to boot from? On my HP’s I press F9 to select the boot device or efi file. Do you have something similar?