[sle-beta] Installing RC1 on VM with beta4 partitions: missing bios_boot partition

Vincent Moutoussamy vmoutoussamy at suse.com
Tue Mar 13 09:02:33 MDT 2018


Hi,
> On 12 Mar 2018, at 20:26, Johannes Kastl <kastl at b1-systems.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed RC1 over the beta4 installed in my Test-VM, just keeping the
> partitions created during installation of Beta4. Formatting / and swap,
> and just keeping /home brings up an error that the bios_boot partition
> is missing.

The yast partitioner and especially libstorage-ng have received a lot of fixes
and enhancement since Beta4 (cf. Highlights of YaST Development Sprint#).
So I would suggest to remove the beta4 existing partitions completely or base
your test on a SLE12SP3 migration with a similar partition layout.

> 
> Indeed I have a small 1MB partition in between, no idea if this is
> really used. But I have no bios_boot partition.
> 
> I forced the installer to continue, and everything seems to work.
> Machine boots.
> 
> I'll try to set the machine back to an earlier snapshot and redo the
> installation.
> 
> Known issue? Worth a bug report?

The only thing similar to your issue that I was able to find is:
bsc#1082349, specially comment#5:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082349#c5 <https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082349#c5>

Please note that this is a openSUSE Leap 15 Beta bug.
If you happen to be able to reproduce this issue (without the beta 4 legacy
setup), please create a new SLES 15 bug report.

> 
> Kind Regards,
> Johannes
> 
> Addendum:
> Trying to resize the partitions I triggered an error in Yast, asking me
> to start the ruby debugger. I need to look into that and try to
> reproduce it.

Same advice: I would suggest to remove the beta4 existing partitions completely
or base your test on a SLE12SP3 migration with a similar partition layout.

Regards,
--
Vincent Moutoussamy
SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager

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