I am a LION. A very complicated LION.
I have four hard drives each with four partitions. I am trying to load Tumbleweed to drive 2 partition 3. I put an EFI partition on this drive but the installation could not find the EFI partition located on this drive (partition 4).
Does each drive have to have its own EFI partition or should I use disk1, part 1 (Windows). At the moment drive 2 has a large (1TB ntsf) partition, but no operating system. Drives 1 and 3 have instances of Windows 11 (and I have not gotten the instance on disk 3 to operate yet.) Right now I am working on OpenSUSE.
I get all the way through the install when about 3/4 the way through it stops. Message says could not find EFI sys Part. It suggests mounting it to /boot/efi or /efi, but how can I access the root if the system is not yet installed.
Don’t reuse existing partitions, make sure you have enough free space ( you can do that from Windows by removing unused ones, preferably adjacent to eachother. The installer will detect that free space and create 3 partitions in that space: an EFI, a btrfs for the actual OS, and a swap partiton. Do check the partitioning through the Expert partitioning - …Current proposal, Make sure the EFI partition is 2-4 GB. If not, remove all three from that same installer screen, and make them like this:
Don’t reuse existing partitions, make sure you have enough free space ( you can do that from Windows by removing unused ones, preferably adjacent to eachother. The installer will detect that free space and create 3 partitions in that space: an EFI, a btrfs for the actual OS, and a swap partiton. Do check the partitioning through the Expert partitioning - …Current proposal, Make sure the EFI partition is 2-4 GB. If not, remove all three from that same installer screen, and make
for EFI: 4 GB - FAT32 - mountpoint on /boot/efi
for swap: twice your RAM size -swap - mountpoint swap ( mountpoint should be automagically filled )
for root: rest of free space - btrfs - mountpoint /
Before doing that, please tell us how you created the USB install medium, incl the software and method used
Thank You. I had not cleared out the partitions before, but even so I collect the same errors. Actually the are six distinct errors but all of them point to “ERROR OUTPUT: Couldn’t find EFI System Partition.”
I have four hard drives each with four partitions, but how many EFI partitions can a computer have? It only looks at them when the computer starts up, ergo (I presume) before the computer even looks for disks or partitions. At the moment I think I have three EFI partitions one on each disk that has an operating system.
I am trying to install OpenSUSE disk two, partition three. Windows is on Drive 0, partition 2. Should all operating systems be using the same EFI partition? How do I put the EFI on Disk 0 when it does not show up as a option when I try to Install OpenSUSE.
I created my USB install medium by selecting the .iso downloads folder, right click on it and selecting the target drive. When I try to install the OS I click on the F11 key until it offers me a selection, and I select the USB Drive. Everything goes well until the very end of the installation when I get the error “YaST2 ERROR: Cannot read boot menu entry.” It goes on with “COMMAND '[[”/usr/bin/bootctl", “–json=short”, "list "]]’ It will pull up six such failures but all ending with “Couldn’t find EIF Partition…”
So how many EFI partitions can I have, and If I load OpenSUSE to drive 2 can it find the EFI partition on Drive 0.