Installation Error Surface Pro 7

General system Newbie
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Hi!
I’m trying to get Endeavor OS to install alongside Windows on my Surface, a terrible idea for someone new but here we are.

I’m getting the following error at the end of the installation:
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2023-07-09 - 11:23:15 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    ERROR: Installation failed: "Boost.Python error in job \"windowsbootentry\"." 
2023-07-09 - 11:23:15 [6]:     .. - message: "Boost.Python error in job \"windowsbootentry\"." 
2023-07-09 - 11:23:15 [6]:     .. - details: <div><strong>&lt;class 'OSError'&gt;</strong></div><div>[Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/tmp/calamares-root-98t3le2h/efi/EFI/Microsoft'</div><div><br/>Traceback:</div><div><pre>File &quot;/usr/lib/calamares/modules/windowsbootentry/main.py&quot;, line 197, in run
    handle_systemdboot(efi_directory)

I’m getting this has something with the installer not able to install the bootloader correctly into the EFI location, but I am not sure how to fix it. Any help?

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Did you turn of Secure Boot?

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I would suggest to shrink your disk from within Windows first.
Afterwards launch the EnOS’ installer and point it to that “liberated” space.

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First step. Be sure to back up any important data that may be on the disk.

Pudge

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Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to boot into the OS if I hadn’t done that.

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Already done! I have 20gb available.
The error seems to be that the efi seems to be write-protected?

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Oh yeah, everything important is backed up.

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Have you disabled Fast Startup and hibernation in Windows?

Also, are you choosing grub or systemd-boot?

If you feel conformable with partitioning the disk, you could create a new ESP and choose manual installation.

Depending on the choice of bootloader the size and the mountpoint for ESP will vary under EnOS.

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fast startup and hibernate are off.

I tried using systemd-boot. I’m going to see if I can manually mount the /boot/efi and see if that’ll help. I found it in another thread.

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For systemd-boot you would need an ESP FAT32 and 1000 MB in size. The mountpoint will be /efi.

The rather big size for ESP is because it will house your kernel images.

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Ah. Maybe that’s the issue? I’ll try Grub and see what happens.

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Fixed! Changing to Grub worked.

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When all else fails…grub to the rescue! :rofl:

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