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
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    33 months ago

    How did you set up your install medium, @[email protected]?

    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
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      13 months ago

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

      • Boxscape
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        23 months ago

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

        Glad to hear it. Hope you enjoy the distro!

    • KerbOP
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      13 months ago

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