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

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
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    3 hours ago

    If I’m understanding correctly, you’re trying to install Bazzite next to an existing Windows on the same SSD? I’ve run into the problem in the past where if Windows was allowed to set up a drive at some point, it makes a really small EFI partition, so sometimes, if you go to install another OS, there may just not be enough space on the EFI partition for all the files needed, so the install will fail.

    Check how big your EFI partition is. If it’s like 100MB or something, I’d resize it to like 512MB, then try again. IIRC, parted doesn’t do too well with resizing small FAT32 filesystems, so you may need to do it from Windows, or through some other way.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Are you sure you’re using the right ISO? I’ve run into problems when installing and at least once it was because I chose the image for current NVDIA GPUs on a system that needed the old ones. (I guess you did disable Secure Boot and maybe other stuff in BIOS for the install?)

  • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Not directly related to your problem but Nvidia stopped driver support for 10xx series and 580 is the last supported one. You might wanna check how to stay on a certain driver on Bazzite, after you successfully installed of course. They might put a legacy driver too if they haven’t already.

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
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    8 hours ago

    Maybe check your drives for errors.

    I had this EFI problem and it turned out to be a couple of file system errors on one of my old windows HDD’s I use for data (not the W11 system drive). I read it somewhere on internet this could be the problem. I think after doing the scannow thing and catching errors on Windows 11, Bazzite installed fine on a clean formatted SSD after.

    Bazzite seems to be picky on disk errors, unlike Windows, Windows reported it as totally fine until I checked manually.

    Just to make sure I disconnected the data drive, Bazzite installed without any effort (or errors).

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    What kind of machine is this? If it’s something like an HP/Dell/Lenovo, it may have a boot blocker enabled somehow. It wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense since you managed to install Ubuntu, but they may possibly be creating different types of boot volumes.

    You’d normally see a message like “HP Sure Start” at the boot screen, for example.

    • lucullus@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      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

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        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?

  • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Ive always had issues with automatic partition when there is a windows boot partition on the drive, maybe do it manually?

    • lucullus@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Unfortunately that didn’t work either. Is there a special partition configuration, that I need to use here? Do I need to format the EFI partition (as I have chosen not to with the manual partioning)? I don’t want to loose my other OS

      • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        You’re trying to enter windows from startup pressing f11 or whatever and not able to get in?