Now that GRUB2-BLS is the default on Tumbleweed, and considering that it requires an unusually large ESP partition, I believe it would be helpful to have the installer warn us when the selected partition is too small for the chosen bootloader.
Being unaware of that change, and coming from a different distribution, I happily went through the installation alongside Windows 11. .
After spending almost two days configuring the newly installed openSUSE system, a zypper dup failed with ERROR: No free space in /boot/efi for new kernel. . There’s a long discussion here that helped me understand why this is happening.
My ESP partition was created by Windows and is only 200 MB large. . I do usually create it with 1 GB, but the last installation image from Microsoft seems to have broken the ability to do custom partitioning (which I’ve reported to them).
YaST Boot Loader says it’s not possible to change the bootloader from GRUB2-BLS to anything else. Is it really impossible?
Problem of too small ESP has historically been able to be worked around by partitioning in advance. It’s been a long time since I installed Windows, but it was always receptive to using appropriately prepared existing partitions, as with most Linux distros, including TW.
That build was the day after the fix announcement. Typically bug fix announcements are premature by days if not a week or more as to actual availability in .isos or .rpms.
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. There’s a long discussion here that helped me understand why this is happening.
. I do usually create it with 1 GB, but the last installation image from Microsoft seems to have broken the ability to do custom partitioning (which I’ve reported to them).