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.
Now that I’ve created a new EFI what happens to the old one that windows was using? My understanding is that, these are 2 different EFI partitions mounted under boot and both are used while booting and depending on the OS chosen, it’ll use right one?
Now that I’ve dual-booted alongside windows, is the only way to switch OSes is to keep modifying the bios preference order and toggling secure-boot?
Why were there multiple “new” options under EFI partition option and why only one of them worked? [Refer image from the previous message]
Also, from another thread, I inferred that if there’s not enough space in existing EFI a new EFI partition would be automatically created. However, in my case, I had to manually do it. Why is that? Did I do something wrong?
My EFI partition option while choosing partition showed /dev/sda1 by default. While this may be the default EFI in other cases, this was actually my bootable pen-drive in my case. Is this expected? Maybe this was the cause of my original “read-only EFI” issue? Also, why wasn’t my existing EFI (/dev/nvme0n1p1) not shown in this list? [Refer image from the previous message]
My BIOS boot preferences used to show few options - namely, 1. windows boot manager, 2. nvme xxxx, and 3 more options related to wifi/lan etc., Now post the successful installation, the second one (nvme) shows 2 options (nvme, nvme 2) along with the rest (and of course the new linux boot manager). Why is that? Should I be worried about this?
Now that I’ve created a new EFI partition for linux, do I still have to disable fast startup and hibernate in windows?
Now that I’ve installed EOS along with windows, I would like to share a partition between both without removing bitlocker for windows. What is the right procedure. I had done this long back in my previous laptop by creating a new smaller partition from windows and removed the encryption on it. This one was visible from both the OS. Is this the right way to do?
Say, I’m planning on removing linux altogether. I generally go to windows and delete the linux volume and extend the windows partition. Now there’s a new EFI partition as well. Can I delete that volume to safely?
Thanks in advance! and apologies if some of the above questions are dumb.
