On 02/02/2018 04:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-02-02 04:03, Neil Rickert wrote:
On 02/01/2018 01:16 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
The system might not be able to boot:
* Missing device with size equal or bigger than 256 KiB and partition id bios_boot
As others have said, it is possibly needed with GPT partitioning, when grub is installed in the MBR. It is not needed on EFI boxes.
Leap 15 is using GPT partitioning on a clean disk. If you want to force it to use legacy partitioning, then use "fdisk" before you start the install, and be sure to do a "w" in "fdisk" (even without creating partitions). Then you will get legacy partitioning.
If you install grub2 in the root partition or in "/boot", then I don't think this happens. But you might not be able to install grub in a partition if the file system doesn't support that.
Even if not installing grub on the MBR, YaST may insist on creating that BIOS partition if there are GPT partitions around. I was surprised yesterday when installing 42.3 YaST on one disk with traditional partitioning, YaST insisted on creating the BIOS partition on another disk that had free space and a GPT partition. I had to go in expert mode with no proposal to be able to get rid of it.
JFYI, the code the calculate the needed partitions for booting is completely different in 42.3 and in 15. The new one should not do things like proposing the BIOS boot in a disk that is actually not going to be used by the system (although it's impossible for YaST to know from which disk the system will be configured to run, so in both versions there are some actions based on wild assumptions). The checks and partitions suggested by Leap15 are still not set in stone. They will be adjusted during beta phase. So if somebody believes YaST suggested something that was wrong or overkill for his/her situation and can explain why, bug reports are very welcome. So far, this "logic" is always honored: https://github.com/yast/yast-storage-ng/blob/master/doc/boot-requirements.md Thanks -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org