Boot issues
Hi, ran into an interesting issue: yesterday i've installed Bazzite OS on my ROG ally into a new SSD drive which was connected to it via an USB enclosure (wanted to check out the OS without needing to disassemble device or remove Windows). SSD with windows was left inside Ally. It seem to went well and I could boot to both Bazzite from enclosure and Windows from internal drive.
Today i decided to swap the drives, so that Bazzite is inside Ally and Windows is in the enclosure. The problem here is that the internal drive with Bazzite is not recognized as bootable in Bios (drive itself is seen by it). But, if i insert the USB enclosure, then i can see both Bazzite and Windows as boot options and it actually booted into Bazzite (haven't tried Windows). I think there Bazzite installation modified my boot (EFI?) settings and now bios only sees enclosure as bootable option (it is event recognized not as SSD model, but as Realtek enclosure).
Is there a way i could fix this without needing to reinstall Bazzite?
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I messed it up during installation it seems: I did not create a separate EFI partition for Bazzite on a new drive - instead it wrote into EFI partition on Windows drive, so when I swapped the ssds, Bazzite one was not recognized as bootable (no EFI on the drive). I have reinstalled Bazzite properly now and it seems to work. I'l try to boot windows later from USB enclosure to see if it still works
Hopefully i will not mess up my boot partitions doing that
I'm glad you found the error you made with respect to the need of an ESP on the Bazzite drive also..
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If you need help with cleanup of the previous mixed install just let us know 😉
(So the two drives will work independently without boot-loaders of the other on them.)