Install issues
Attempting to install Bazzite over Mint in a dual boot configuration with Windows 11 for the remaining Windows games I play on my PC, so far I keep running into "Error checking storage configuration" I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong but this is what I see before I see the error, happy to VC on phone to help with this if necessary. Hardware is AMD 7900XTX gpu and AMD CPU Ryzen 9 7900 32gb ram
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I replied on your reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1hg592e/install_issues/
But I'll put what I said there here too.
Looks like you are trying to do manual partitioning. There are multiple partitions that you need to make, and you definitely don't want a 173GB EFI partition.
Have a look at the docs https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/#b-same-drive-method for the sizes that you need to make each partition and a link to a Youtube video where you can follow along with the manual partitioning steps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTnm9EiBdPA Followed this guide, received a error on the attempt and did the auto report thingy. copied the video exactly and I can easily recreate if you want to see the error
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Getting past the "Error checking storage configuration" error when ...
I have seen a number of users getting the "Error checking storage configuration" error when they are trying to install Bazzite for the first time, especially when they try and dual-boot with Windows. In this video, I'll show you how to reproduce the issue and after that we'll look at setting up Bazzite with custom partitioning, so both Windows a...
The exact error message would probably be helpful. And maybe a screenshot of the partition sizes that you went with
Okay, I will get it and post later tonight after I finish up with movie night with my partner
I hope this is enough for you to go off of
could you get the first screenshot again I need to see all the existing partitions before you try and add the new efi partition
Highlight is whats left of Ubuntu (Mint) I can't get rid of it, when I try to I get "Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set."
Also can't seem to reclaim through the installer of Bazzite
The Bazzite installer (which is the Fedora installer) is rather limited with it's partition management... Just boot a live USB of Mint and you should be able to remove it in Gparted. Be careful though, that 8TB disk is listed as the first disk in the system and Windows loves putting it's files into the first efi partition it sees. If you take out the 8TB drive, does your system still boot?
Also, is that 8TB drive a HDD? Atomic based distros tend to run very slowly on those.
8TB is SSD, windows still boots without this drive. Disk 1 was put into this system 1st and is a NVME drive
Perfect. Try remove the 513 MB efi partition in Gparted then try the installer again.
let you know how that goes this weekend. can you point me in the direction of Gparted? Never heard of it before
I did a video a while back where I used gparted to get rid of a bitlocker partition https://youtu.be/FBGLLkIKp-w the concept would be the same for removing your resistant EFI partition. Just be careful when doing any form of OS installations or partition tweaking as things can go wrong.
Okay so back up everything before I do it just in case, thank you, will let you know how it goes