I have been trying to install Fedora 41 on a HP Zbook Studio G11 16 inch, when I try to install it, it fails in the “Creating efi” step
From the log dump I get the following error message:
pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError: mount failed: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on efivarfs, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <dasbus.client.handler.ClientObjectHandler object at 0x7f34d0fd2ec0>
error: g-io-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error: mount failed: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on efivarfs, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (36)
name: org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error
cls: <class ‘pyanaconda.modules.common.errors.general.AnacondaError’>
message: mount failed: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on efivarfs, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
exception: mount failed: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on efivarfs, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
My assumption is that the installation is failing because efi variables are not available in the live environment, as show when trying to run efibootmgr.
I read that this could happen if UEFI is not supported, but I checked with a command that it’s running in UEFI mode.
Also the Windows installation on the laptop specifies that UEFI mode is running.
I have tried to disable Secure Boot, and toggle settings in the BIOS, but I can’t make it work.