BIOS boot partition?

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How do I create a BIOS boot partition during installation of Leap 15.4 on an SSD drive?
Or WHERE do I create it??

This pops up after I have formatted the drive https://susepaste.org/79362026

I set up a 1GiB partition for /boot, then selected BIOS boot partition in the box below the format area.

Then continued with swap, /, /home partitions.

The image above linked image shows pops every time I try to set it up differently.

My machine is a HP Compaq DC7700 CMT. Quite old. It is a legacy BIOS, no where near EFI.

Is it even possible to install Leap on an SSD drive? On an ‘ ancient’ machine?

I have another recent post showing complete machine specs in this forum section.

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Hi
Make sure the disk is type gpt and add a 8MB partition type ef02 BIOS boot partition as sda1

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All day I have looked at this 'BIOS boot partition ’ things. So far no luck actually getting it done!
1- how to make sure disk is ‘type GPT’?
2- when do I add the 8MB ‘partition type ef02 BIOS boot partition as sda1’?
3- Do I add that 8MB partition in the installer FIRST w/o mounting it?

Can I set up the partitions(empty) in gparted?
@malcolmlewis, I AM STILL a Linux dummy, and some of this is still beyond me!

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Hi
Just boot to a USB rescue system and open a terminal, switch to root user and use gdisk to prepare.

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In gdisk, I can’t find a ‘type ef02’ in the

I do see this in the code listing ------ ‘ef01 MBR partition scheme’

MY BAD!! I found the ‘ef02 BIOS boot partition’ code.

Sorry for the waste of a post?

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IMO, the opensuse installers seriously need to have the ability to add the ‘BIOS boot partition’ PRIOR to other System partitions.

using gdisk it took me over 2 1/2 hours to set up the disk partitions before doing an install.

i realize most long term users can do it in there sleep, but for us casual users, IT TAKES BEAUCOUP time and effort.

Everting else is there, WHY not the ‘BIOS boot Partition’?

Just saying….:frowning:

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openSUSE installer adds BIOS boot partition if you let openSUSE installer do disk partitioning. If you create partitions manually, do not blame openSUSE installer.

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EFI boot is not mounted at /boot it is /boot/efi!!!

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Yeah likely there among all the other 1/2 dozen or so partitions it wants to auto create. I like manually, and still think the installer should be set up to create it after us casual users encounter that pop up.

T’was easier to do it in gdisk, then install and use the expert partitioner.

My opinion anyway.
thanks for the response

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You mean the sub-volumes that are used by BTRFS??? If so don’t use BTRFS use ext4 BTRFS is a btree based FS reducing the number of nodes in a btree makes it faster and more reliable so sub-volumes are just separate btrees. Not separate partitions. Two different animals;)

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BTRFS is the MAIN reason I set things up manually. I haven’t tried to reduce the BTRFS nodes to get to the BIOS boot partition, and work from there.
Hopefully, these will be my last installs for a while, unless I have to do an install for when Leap 5 is out.