https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847974 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847974#c0 Summary: Installation with GPT on a BIOS system turns "/" into an EFI system partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.66 Safari/537.36 SUSE/30.0.1599.66 I have installed openSUSE 12.3 on a BIOS system with a GPT disk created manually with gdisk. I have set the partition type GUID of the "/" partition to 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 ("Linux filesystem"). After installation, the partition type GUID of my "/" was suddenly C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B ("EFI System"). This is not severe because Linux mostly ignores partition type GUIDs, but is still wrong (this is not an EFI system at all). I think that this is the same as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746895. In short: libparted has a strange interpretation of what it calls the "boot flag". On MBR disks, it means: Mark this partition as active. On GPT disks, it means: Turn this partition into an EFI system partition. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.