Bazzite will not install. An unknown error has occured.
I have tried 4 different ISO's and not one has worked. I am trying to install on my laptop and it will not let me get past the Unknown Error dialog box. I have tried one 2 different USB drives and secure boot and fast startup are both off.
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I have used Ventoy, Rufus and BalenaEtcher and the same problem occurs.
youre trying to install it on a raid?
I’m trying to install it on a separate hard drive that is separate from windows 11.
I have just tried running Fedora Atomic and the same issue occurs
the error says youre trying to install it on a non existent raid device md127
do i need to mount a drive? i was following the bazzite installation tutorial
no idea i never tried installing linux on a raid device, i think first you would have to try remove the devices affected from the raid array if you just want it added on a single disk
i would like to see how your partition layout and stuff is when you do the setup though as i find it odd that the disk is part of a linux raid if you did not set that up yourself
the dialog box that pops up keeps me from doing anything else. i dont know how to remove devices from the raid array either
we would need a live iso to check it with mdadm
do you have a different linux iso you can boot from to debug?
would fedora atomic work>
?
atomic has no live isos (yet)
fedora workstation will work
flashing now. its gonna take a while
once its done give me the output of
cat /proc/mdstat if it exists
I have 2 internal drives in my laptop
yeah they seem to be configured as raids 🤔
are you planning to replace yout whole system with bazzite?
No I’m planning to dual boot windows 11 and bazzite
ah
I just want to install bazzite man 😭
can you
sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md127
i suspect this might be caused by intel raid which some manufacturers in their infinite wisdom enable
i never worked with intel raid but, were you planning to put bazzite over the whole of that drive?
or have it shared with windows in that 1 drive?
Yeah and keep windows 11 on a separate drive
hmm ok
can you open
disks from the fedora start menu
locate nvme1n1, should be one of the first 2
Found it
ok and now raid array 1? imsm1
and imsm0 just for reference
hmm ok so i am not comfortable with disassembling this raid blindly without going into the bios, disabling intel RST (essentially switching the mode back to AHCI) and most likely reinstalling windows first.
since if i go forward blindly removing one of the raid devices i might remove windows
and it doesnt help that i have no experience with intel raid
Is there a way to unmount the windows drives? I just wanted to install bazzite on this drive
ohh
hm
you could open the laptop and just remove the 2 windows nvmes
That’s what I was thinking
Idk why there’s 2 lol it’s only 1 stick of an ssd that has windows
no idea, i dont like intel raid :clueless:
software raid ftw
So I remove the windows ssd and keep the other ssd in?
yep
then go through install and then that should in theory work
Anything else I should do before I shut it down? The ssd is not partitioned yet
once you put the ssds back and boot bazzite you can do
ujust regenerate-grub and hopefully it will add back windows (idk if it will like intel raid)
worst case you will have to use the boot menu to switch between the 2
nah just shut down the pc
make sure if there are 2 m.2 ssds though that you remember where both are
as in you put them back in the same slots they were taken fromYeah okay
raid is very picky about disk ordering so if you happen to see oh its 2 nvmes actually
then make damn sure you put them in the correct slots or the data can get mangled if they are set up as raid 0 for some reason
Got it. Gonna remove the ssd now
Okay I got into bazzite and no dialog box
progress
Installing right now
@Kyle Gospo you familiar with intel raid aka RST? and know if it will cause issues in bazzite? installer seems to hate its guts
never used it before, sorry
same boat as me then
worth trying the stock fedora silverblue/kinoite installer
since you can rebase
if that fails, contact fedora for support
we just removed the nvmes to get the install going, we will see once its installed
hopefully at worst the windows drive wont be accessible
best case it is accessible
Okay I regenerated grub
Do I enable secure boot now?
did you enroll the key?
Yeah I made sure I did that first
secure boot can be enabled then
Okay
Now when I restart I don’t see a boot menu but it boots into bazzite first
ujust configure-grub unhide
write that in terminal
or access the boot menu (usually f12 or f8) and choose the other driveI set up reFined when I was using my deck could I use that here?
idk if refind supports intel raid, but worth a try
your main issue is that windows is using intel raid and the way to undo that is a windows re-install once you set the bios to use AHCI instead of RST as sata/disk mode
Gonna try refind real quick
What does this mean?
?
read their docs
warning that refind might not work because youre using secure boot
Is there a refind alternative?
Just don’t want it spam F9 every time I want to go to windows
yes its called grub and is the bootloader we use.
100% of your issue is that the laptop came with windows installed in an intel raid for no reason whatsoever :/
Ffs 😭
How can I get grub to show up every time I turn my device on?
ujust configure-grub unhide
if bazzite boots by default it will make the grub menu show up for 5 seconds until interrupted
if not interrupted it will boot bazziteOkay
Just gonna configure it now
you can change the timeout to be longer by editing
/etc/default/grub and then running sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg to update grubAppreciate all the help dude 👍 many thanks!
np
if windows does not show up in the grub menu its because of the intel raid
but in best case it should show up
I feel it’s gonna be a huge pain to set up everything exactly but I’ll pull through 😭
one thing you could try in windows is to mount the efi partition and copy out the microsoft folder and put that in the EFI partition from the bazzite disk
its how i do my dual boot on my legion go (where windows is on an external m.2)
in order to keep the windows entry in the grub menu in legion go
I’ll try that tomorrow
I spent the whole day trying to install it and now I’m just exhausted
understandable
worst case scenario if you want everything to work is a windows reinstall (which personally i hope you wont have to deal with)
or deal with pressing F9 to switch between systems