I don’t know if this is the right community to ask but here goes.
So… I tried to install opensuse on my PC today. It already had windows and fedora. I was planning to replace fedora with opensuse.
The installation process went fine till at the end of installation opensuse gave some error about efi partition. For context my efi partition is 100 mb (not the recommended 500 mb). And I had also installed MX Linux which is still visible in the boot option even though I deleted MX Linux long time ago.
After the installation, I rebooted my pc and… there is no open suse boot option, even though installation was completed after the error. I booted into windows, and it showed me an error screen with a qr code 🙃.
It then automatically booted into fedora (which btw was deleted during opensuse installation), but it was stuck at loading screen, so I powered off my PC. When I powered my pc back on, the monitor showed no signal. The fan lights on the PC were as usual.
What just happen here and how do I resolve it?
The EFI partition is a section of your harddrive.that contains bootable binaries(?). In UEFI mode, your motherboard scans all harddrives EFI partitions. I believe they are always FAT32, marked with a “boot” flag, and essentially contains folders for each OS bootloader.
I’m simplifying quite a bit I suspect, but that’s the gist of it.
Your harddrive will be in either MBR or GPT mode, selected when you or your first OS made the partition table. Any modern system should have picked GPT, and I don’t think windows uses MBR anymore either. Bit fuzzy on that one.
The “architecture” as you describe it is a partition format, or how the data is “physically” arranged on that section of the disk; fat32, NTFS, ext4, btrfs, etc. Skipping over a heap of context, This is something that is specific to each partition, and is selected more out of convention or preference than anything else. There are a few exceptions, but in general, your boot drive will be fat32 (as above), windows generally will use NTFS for its main partition (other special partitions may use other formats), Linux may use many different formats, but by general convention it would be ext4 (this is a very sweeping statement, but I think its a good place to start).