https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807180 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807180#c0 Summary: strange partitioning proposals on EFI USB installation Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: RC 2 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Windows 8 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: behrisch@users.sourceforge.net QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 Using an 8GB USB stick to boot the network installer (using EFI), the partitioner first proposed to install on the same stick and when told to use the main hdd, wanted to create a new EFI partition although there already is one. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a bootable USB stick from the network install CD using ImageWriter 2. Reboot with EFI, start installation 3. Look at partitioning proposals 4. Tell Installer to use main hdd, specifiying explicitly which areas to use (including existing EFI System Partition) Actual Results: After 3. proposes to install on stick After 4. proposes new EFI patition Expected Results: Install on main hdd using existing partition This is the hardware http://www.samsung.com/de/consumer/notebooks-displays/notebook-computers/ser... This is the partition layout (before installation), the existing linux partitions contained an ubuntu Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 525MB 524MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag 2 525MB 840MB 315MB fat32 EFI system partition boot 3 840MB 974MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres 4 974MB 108GB 107GB ntfs Basic data partition 7 108GB 113GB 4290MB linux-swap(v1) primary 8 113GB 134GB 21.5GB ext4 primary 9 134GB 724GB 590GB ext4 primary 5 724GB 749GB 24.6GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag 6 749GB 750GB 1074MB fat32 Basic data partition hidden, diag -- 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.