While trying to install from Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39-1.5.iso , I got the following: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device: EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; EFI System Partition cannot be of type None; EFI System Partition cannot be of type NTFS; EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; EFI System Partition cannot be of type ext4.; EFI System partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; ... repetition
I am not happy.
The target is an HP EliteBook (not EliteDesk). The partition editing was done with Windows 10, which is still present. According to Anaconda: sda1 partition efi 100 MiB sda2 partition 16 MiB sda3 partition ntfs 220.83 GiB sda4 partition ext4 97.66 GiB slash / sda5 partition ext4 97.66 GiB home /home sda6 partition ext4 19.53 GiB var /var free space free space 517.58 GiB sda7 partition ntfs 509 MiB
sda3, sda5 and sda6 exist because I used the Windows 10 tool. I left formating up to anaconda. Anaconda has not yet formatted them.
What is going on? How do I do the installation?
I do not rmember my last pain-free install.
On 4/2/24 22:19, Michael Hennebry wrote:
While trying to install from Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39-1.5.iso , I got the following: Failed to find a suitable stage1 device: EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; EFI System Partition cannot be of type None; EFI System Partition cannot be of type NTFS; EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; EFI System Partition cannot be of type ext4.; EFI System partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi.; ... repetition
I am not happy.
The target is an HP EliteBook (not EliteDesk). The partition editing was done with Windows 10, which is still present. According to Anaconda: sda1 partition efi 100 MiB
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition.
On 4/4/24 00:50, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition.
Anaconda needs to have all the partitions you are going to install to mounted and to be told what the partition format is, hence you would need to tell anaconda to mount the efi partition as /boot/efi and its format is efi. Having done that don't specify to format that partition as with Windows installed, Windows is potentially also using that partition as its efi partition.
regards, Steve
On 4/3/24 5:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 4/4/24 00:50, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition.
Anaconda needs to have all the partitions you are going to install to mounted and to be told what the partition format is, hence you would need to tell anaconda to mount the efi partition as /boot/efi and its format is efi. Having done that don't specify to format that partition as with Windows installed, Windows is potentially also using that partition as its efi partition.
regards, Steve
Fedora and Windows can share an EFI partition with no difficulties
On 4/8/24 08:19, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
On 4/3/24 5:45 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 4/4/24 00:50, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition.
Anaconda needs to have all the partitions you are going to install to mounted and to be told what the partition format is, hence you would need to tell anaconda to mount the efi partition as /boot/efi and its format is efi. Having done that don't specify to format that partition as with Windows installed, Windows is potentially also using that partition as its efi partition.
regards, Steve
Fedora and Windows can share an EFI partition with no difficulties
Yes. That's why Steve said not to format it if it exists.
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
The efi partition probably needs to be bigger than that, but it also has to be mounted at /boot/efi as indicated.
Ah! With custom partitioning, anaconda needs to be explicitly told the EFI partition is the EFI partition.
As I should have mentioned earlier, it works now.
I promptly took it on the road and forgot to bring my password list.
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