[opensuse] Boot after fresh install fails with "no such device //efi/boot/fallback.efi"
Hi ! Its seems there is a strange installer bug in both Leap 15.0 and latest Tumblweed snapshot. Installation pattern: Launch installer from DVD, go with default options Expert partitioner -> Start with current proposal (SuSE installer suggests its own partitioning scheme and GPT partition map) Delete all partitions except EFI boot and bios_boot (EFI boot and bios_boot added automatically by installer) Create /swap 8GB, / ext4 80GB and the rest /home ext4 Install First boot fails with "no such device //efi/boot/fallback.efi" PC is HP Intel i5 with EFI boot. I have another HD with Linux which boots just fine on same PC (with EFI boot). Legacy boot is disabled in BIOS. Secure boot is disabled in BIOS. SSD with fresh SuSE install is being left as single disk, no dual boot, only DVD-RW attached to another SATA port. Thanks in advance. Andrei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 4/16/19 8:32 AM, Andrei Verovski wrote:
Its seems there is a strange installer bug in both Leap 15.0 and latest Tumblweed snapshot.
The installer did not anticipate your install selections.
Expert partitioner -> Start with current proposal (SuSE installer suggests its own partitioning scheme and GPT partition map) Delete all partitions except EFI boot and bios_boot (EFI boot and bios_boot added automatically by installer)
Just as a note, if you intended booting with EFI, then you do not need a bios_boot partition. But it doesn't hurt.
First boot fails with "no such device //efi/boot/fallback.efi"
I'm pretty sure that you actually booted the DVD, and selected "boot from hard drive" in the menu. The DVD was booted with EFI, and for booting the hard drive, it looks for "fallback.efi". However you apparently made boot selections for your install, such that "fallback.efi" was not installed. My suggestion: Remove the DVD and see if it boots without the DVD. That is supposed to work.
PC is HP Intel i5 with EFI boot. I have another HD with Linux which boots just fine on same PC (with EFI boot). Legacy boot is disabled in BIOS. Secure boot is disabled in BIOS.
The default install would have used "grub2-efi" for booting. And it would have provided support for secure-boot. Either you switched to plain "grub2" or you unchecked the box for secure-boot support. That's why "fallback.efi" was not installed. It is actually harmless to provide support for secure-boot, even if you do not use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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