Does Endeavour installer is trying to create EFI partition on my USB stick?

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I’m trying to install EndeavourOS for the first time (and Arch distro for that matter).
While going through the installer I spotted something weird - installer is saying that it will create EFI partition on /dev/sda1, which in my case is my USB stick with Ventoy I’m using to run the ISO file. Is that normal? Or is it something unexpected?

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For some reason in the dropdown menu I can choose only “sda1” and “New”, and entries are duplicated (also a side note, sometimes while picking a partition to replace, whole installer just closes immediately)

I tried selecting “New”, but in the Summary there is nothing indicating that EFI will be created. As if it wasn’t working.

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I have two drives, one with Windows, second one with only data and 150GB of free space for Endeavour.

So, is it working or I have to create partitions manually (which I wanted avoid, but oh well).

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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

neo
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Where the install will be placed is indicated in the entry box with the red arrow.
In this case, the install will be on your NVME. There is also a down arrow at the right of the entry box where one can choose a different destination.

HTH

Pudge

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Hey, thanks for the response. But I think there was a misunderstanding. I know that I can choose the drive at the top. I did that. And I chose correct NVME, but I have a problem with the EFI partition at the bottom.

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If I will leave it at the default selected option of /dev/sda1, then it looks like it will try and use EFI partition from my USB stick, while whole installation will be on /dev/nvme1n1.

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I obviously do not want use EFI from USB stick. I want to have it on the same NVME. So, what do I do?

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There is a bug in replace partition. If you use replace with unpartitioned space, it won’t create the EFI partition.

To workaround that, create a partition of any type you want in the unpartitioned space before starting the installer and then use replace on that.

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I was not aware of that bug. You learn something new every day so I have my quota and can go to bed now. :sleeping:

Pudge

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Oh, nice to know.
So I did that. I created a partition from the free space and summary looks a little bit different now, saying that it will first delete the partition. But still no mention about creating partition or mounting EFI. Should I proceed with it anyway or I have to do something differently?

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Also what about swap? Does the installer also creating it?

EDIT: I just tried the option of installing it alongside. It actually shows steps of creating EFI…

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EDIT2: Tried installing it using “alongside option”, but installation failed with “Bad main script” error
EDIT3: It seems there was an issue with using systemd, after switching to Grub and doing manual partitioning it worked.