Spend yesterday figuring out why I could boot off the installation USB and boot the internal SSD but when I removed the USB boot all I got was “Invalid Partition Table”
BIOS was at the latest version. It appears that Legacy cannot handle drives bigger than 2 TB - this new one was 4 TB.
Then I looked at the fact that we were booting “Legacy” and not “UEFI”.
I backed up all the files (tar) to an external 2 tb USB - I also created a list of what was installed with a zypper se -si | awk ‘{print $3}’ >zbefore save to root before the backup.
Changed the Boot from Legacy to UEFI and did a fresh install from the USB drive.
When it came up (no Invalid partition table) - I did a zypper se -si | awk ‘{print $3}’ >znew
I restored etc, root, and home to /tmp from the backup ( all other file systems were not deleted just a new boot/efi and / )
I did the following as root:
cat /tmp/etc/fstab
rem added the lines for the other file systems (not touching / /boot/efi and swap) to /etc/fstab
vi /etc/fstab
rsync -av /tmp/root/ to /root
rsync -av /tmp/etc/zypp/ /etc/zypp
rsync -av /tmp/etc/cups/ /etc/cups
cat zbefore znew | sort | uniq > zadd
vi zadd and joined all the lines into one
zypper in `cat zadd` - that put back all the apps that were there before the reinstall
booted to make sure all was good
mv /tmp/home/username /home/username1
mv /home/username /home/username2
mv /home/username1 /home/username
init 6
Just like before printers and desktop like before reinstall.
Hope this might help someone in the future