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massive issues with installing open SUSE

I was interested in trying out openSUSe and tried to install it on my third drive:

on my first and second attempt the install failed with an error that the creation of the efi Boot partition failed
something along the lines of:

execution of command /usr/sbin/shim-install failed no space left on device
(i tried both manual and automatic partitioning)

i then tried to install fedora on that disk, just to see if something is wrong with the disk (or my skill) and it worked without a hinch.

after that i tried it again with tumbleweed and it seemed to install just fine.
but when i tried to boot it didn’t work,
it just showed a black screen with a blinking - for about a minute before rebooting.

i gave up after that.

is there something that i might have missed during my install,
i thought that openSUSE has a great reputation.

system is a ryzen 7 with an rtx 2060,
on an ASRock mainboard with secure boot deactivated.
disk is my old 250gb samsung 840 evo

Boxscape ,
@Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

How did you set up your install medium, @Kerb?

Recommendation is to use one of the installer images, not the Live tester. Also, I think using Ventoy has caused problems in the past for some.

eldavi ,

did the hash sum of your downloaded image or iso match the distro’s hash sum?

mrvictory1 ,

Disable secure boot. The EFI partition ran out of space while installer was executing a command related to secure boot, disabling it may let you get past that error and complete install.

Kerb OP ,
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i checked my manboards settings after the second attempt and secureboot was already disabled.

mrvictory1 ,

OK, use manual partitioning and give EFI system partition 1 GiB.

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