Alright, seems like it worked fine.
You are right, it didn’t create a new EFI, not sure how it successfully installed though. I would’ve expected the previous error.
Here’s what I did:
- Did a complete reinstall after a reboot.
- While choosing partitions, I choose replace partition and under EFI system partition, chose new. VVIP: it showed multiple “new” options in the dropdown and only choosing the right one works (the second “new” in my case - refer the attached image). Tip: Ensure a separate 1 GB is allocated in the bars shown to ensure new EFI partition is created. Else, it will run successfully, but you can’t find it in the boot preferences in BIOS.
- Continue to execute. This ran successfully.
I’ve couple of queries which I’ll ask in a separate message in this thread.