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

  • KerbOP
    5•3 months ago

    dayum,
    two keyboards with failing keys.
    the usb i was planning to use for the ventoy free install died.
    kde on my current setup keeps crashing.
    constant software issues at work.

    did IBM curse me for daring to stray of the path of the hat?

    anyway, using a directly flashed stick instead of ventoy resolved my issue.

  • Boxscape
    3•3 months ago

    How did you set up your install medium, @Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de?

    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.

    • KerbOP
      1•3 months ago

      apparently flashing the stick directly did the trick,
      thanks for the help

      • Boxscape
        2•3 months ago

        apparently flashing the stick directly did the trick, thanks for the help

        Glad to hear it. Hope you enjoy the distro!

    • KerbOP
      1•3 months ago

      i used the offline installer images with ventoy ill try again with a stick i directly installed it on

  • @mrvictory1@lemmy.world
    2•3 months ago

    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.

    • KerbOP
      4•3 months ago

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

    • KerbOP
      1•3 months ago

      didn’ check that yesterday,
      ill try again with an image i checked and without ventoy