So I’m trying to install Endeavour on one of my hard drives, but I’m having some trouble, whenever it nears the end of the installation it says “Failed to install bootloader”. I don’t want to erase the entire disk to install it, but I do want to give the distro a shot outside of a VM… Here are some of information that might be useful:
Fast boot & secure boot are both disabled
I used gparted to create 100GB of unallocated disk space
I chose to install i3 version
I used the online method (w/stable internet connection)
I chose the “Replace partition” option, and chose the 100GB unallocated storage
Also tried “Install alongside” option
PC currently runs Windows 10 alongside Manjaro on separate hard drives (tried to install on the Windows 10 HDD)
So how can I go about getting around this error message? It worked on a VM, easiest install possible, but I did choose to erase the entire disk on the VM… I don’t want to erase either of my disks, because on the one is Windows 10, and on the other is Manjaro, and I’d like to keep Manjaro for a while before I finalise my decision on switching distros
So, I tried to install it again, to do that command you asked, and the installation worked! So I have no idea what happened, because I tried installing it 4 times before this one, but I think it was with my USB, because I use Ventoy, so in my boot option (in bios) I had 2 options, Ventoy and Ventoy with Partition, I don’t know what the difference is, but on the previous tries I used Ventory w/partition, but in this one I used regular Ventoy… So maybe it was that??
Creating the USB installer can be tricky, as not all programs work well with it.
Anyway, it is a good idea to keep the working USB installer stick available just in case. There can be many uses for it, e.g. making backups and fixing potential software issues.
