Hey, I hope someone here can help me with Bazzite. I already tried to ask at a Bazzite community, though it doesn’t seem to be active enough. ( link )
I failed to install Bazzite besides Windows10 (same SSD) and Ubuntu (different SSD). I got the error that grub2-mkconfig exited with code 1. It did not create an entry in my efi partition (checked in Ubuntu and only saw one Ubuntu and one Windows directory). I checked the logfile mentioned in the error dialog, though that basically just said the same. No further information.
As I wanted to overwrite an existing old ubuntu install on that SSD, I chose to install on a shared disk and then reclaimed the storage space by removing the old root and swap partition of the old Ubuntu in the resulting dialog. The partioning for Bazzite is then done automatically on the resulting free space.
Can you help me with this? All I could find online was either not fitting the problem at all and/or showing a totally different install process (probably for old Bazzite versions).
My hardware is rather old. Ryzen5 CPU, SATA SSDs and HDDs and a Geforce 1060 3GB. I hope to now completely ditch Windows with a replacement for gaming.
Thanks in advance for any help with this problem
Update: As I got the advice to do manual partioning with an additional EFI partition, I tried that. Had to create the partitions through gparted, since the partioning helper in the installer (available through the three dots menu) didn’t show any disk. With this partioning I got past this error:
(Mind the flags at the EFI partition) Though then I got the next error later in the process. Result was that the new EFI partition was empty (no files) and no grub2 boot menu either.
Honestly, I will probably wait for when I have more time again, and then backup everything and building up my systems from ground again. This whole mess with the disks comes mainly, because it is my old grown system with too many small disks, filling all SATA ports (so adding a disk is currently not possible. I need to do tabularasa with this to get a cleaner setup. Though that means work, to transfer everythjng to a new system
I’ve actually seen this while researching. Though I don’t have a fedora directory on the EFI partition. And it makes sense, since I didn’t have fedora installed before and the bazzite install could not write to the EFI partition
I ran into this problem with a dual boot of windows 10 and bazzite where I wanted to recoup more drive space for Linux but couldn’t load gparted to allocate more space because windows kept trying to claim that space.
Even though this wasn’t the exact problem I was looking to solve it did work for me.
When you go to install Bazzite can you make a separate EFI partition manually for it? Because that’s the part that I think might help you.
If not, can you back up the windows install and reformat?
I tried a seperate EFI partition (described in other comments above). Got me past this error, though due to another error not to a bootable install. The additional EFI partition stays empty