Bug 1178851

Summary:	Installer reformats EFI Boot Partition
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Torsten Dörschel <torsten>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	schubi, torsten
Version:	Leap 15.2	Flags:	schubi: needinfo? (torsten)
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Windows 10
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Description Torsten Dörschel 2020-11-16 17:33:24 UTC

I wanted to give opensuse a try, went to website and downloaded the netinstaller iso image. Put it to USB and booted from it.
Wanted to have a dual boot with existing Windows 10 (20h2 pro, 64bit, uefi).

I just followed all the suggestions of the installer and did not change the suggested partitioning changes*.

As a result, the installer either formatted or ereased \EFI\Microsoft\Boot.

So, I was not able to boot Windows anymore.

Frustrating and very annoying, and a shock to anyone with less tolerance, who would probably have ended up re-installing Windows.

Solution:
Thank God I had another Windows Mashine at hand to create a Windows-Restore USB disk, and followed this help to restore the GPT bootloader:
https://www.heise.de/tipps-tricks/Windows-10-Bootmanager-reparieren-so-geht-s-4268553.html

Next frustration:
I wanted to post this to opensuse forums. So I click "register" and (naturally) picked my standard user name theta-delta.
Which caused a problem, thanks to the dash. It would be helpful to have the advice on the registration page (and not only the forum welcome page), or just directly forbit such usernames.
After I registered a second time, I still cannot login to opensuse forums.
There is no error message.
Why the registration is something with SuSE employees (Mitarbeiter)?? And Univention suddenly?
All very confusing for a newcomer to OpenSuSE.

Well, you managed to hit my threshold.
I go back to Ubuntu as my second OS besides Windows.

Maybe I try again in 10 years (as I did 10 years ago) and you manage a simple dual boot installation then.

*where I can change the suggested root partion size to more than 35GB.

Oh, and no I have no RAID or fancy disk layout. Just straightforward Windows-suggested partitoning (Boot, Windows and recovery)

Comment 1 Stefan Schubert 2020-11-17 08:22:03 UTC

Sad to hear this. Do you still have the generated opensSUSE partition? If yes, could you please give us the y2logs ?
So we can take a look on it what is going wrong...
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Report_a_YaST_bug
Thank you !

Comment 2 Torsten Dörschel 2020-11-17 11:12:08 UTC

After Windows finally booted again, it seem to have erased the opensuse shim or boot entry.

I could have accessed the partition to extract a logfile, but google tells me that i have to use a tool save_y2logs.

as i cannot boot into opensuse that easy anymore, i cannot provide you the logs anymore.


FYI:
Windows Fastboot was disabled before I booted from opensuse USB netinstall.
It seems that Windows did not power down but went to hibernate: the NTFS file system did not mount in opensuse with this error message. However, i did select "power down" in windows.
And i dont think this should cause the deletion of windows efi bootloader.

Comment 3 Stefan Schubert 2020-11-27 14:59:35 UTC

Sorry Torsten, that happens very seldom and I see your anger. But without any information (logs) we cannot do very much here.
So again, sorry for it. :-(