Hi Everyone! I am new to the forums and to openSUSE (or I will be new once I get it installed).
I have a HP ZBook 14 (running windows 7) and I am trying to install openSUSE 13.1 as a dualboot with Windows 7.
I partitioned the SSD drive from windows so I would have unallocated space to install on. Everything went fine until I got to the partition part. Then I could not use the unpartitioned space and got the error message which you can see in the picture below (sorry for the size).
I have tried to allocate the space to a new partition and format/install and remove the partition and install but I get the same error no matter what I do. Maybe someone here might know how I can solve this?
Thanks for any response or ideas how I can fix this. I am looking forward to use openSUSE for the first time lol!
This appear to NOT be an EFI drive setup ie MBR. In MBR/DOS formatting you can only have 4 primary partitions. So you have to eliminate one of the partitions and replace it with an extended partition (which is counted as a primary). In that extended you can define many logical partitions.
If using EFI booting the partitions are generally GPT formatted, then there is not a 4 partition limit and extended partitions don’t exist
[QUOTE=Krang;2667386]I have tried to allocate the space to a new partition and format/install and remove the partition and install but I get the same error no matter what I do. Maybe someone here might know how I can solve this? /QUOTE]
The last person who had this problem was able to fix it by running “fixpart”.
This problem can be caused when you have a GPT partitioned disk, and you change it to legacy MBR partitioning. If you don’t remove all remnants of the GPT partition table, you run into this problem.
My suggestion:
Download the live Rescue CD image for 13.1. If possible, write that to a USB flash drive (at least 1G, but 2G or more is better). Or burn a CD, though that’s not as useful.
Boot the rescue system, and install “fixpart”. I believe the full name is “gptfdisk-fixpart”. If you used a USB flash drive, then that will be installed. If you used a CD, it will only be installed in a ramdisk and will disappear on reboot.
Then run “fixpart” to see if it can fix your partition table.
You may still have the problem of only 4 partitions, as another poster has mentioned. But at least you should be able to delete one, then create an extended partition, then continue from there to partition as you want.
And all that depends on whether my diagnosis is correct.