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

[Jose Lopez]

Hi,

Partitioner in RC1 comes equipped with sanity checks for the 
partitioning layout. Before accepting all changes you have done in the 
Partitioner, warning/error messages could be shown to indicate what is 
wrong in your configuration. In your case, you are getting a warning due 
to missing BIOS BOOT partition. Partitioner considers a BIOS BOOT 
partition as needed when the BIOS is working on Legacy mode (not UEFI) 
and the boot disk is partitioned using a GPT partition table. In that 
scenario, you get the BIOS BOOT warning message if there is not a BIOS 
BOOT partition with at least 2 MiB of total size. In the case of a 
missing BIOS BOOT, the message is only a warning and you can continue 
with the installation if you are sure.

Are you testing with a different scenario? In that case, please, report 
a bug with corresponding y2log to debug what is happening.

With regard to the resizing error, I am afraid we need a bug report with 
y2logs.

Regards,
Iván

YaST Team


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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



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