F44 Beta fails if second EFI partition

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I’ll admit my situation is unusual, but I have a second 4TB drive that I use for staying on top of Rawhide, Fedora Betas and any other distos I wish to play with.

As you can see in my image, because CachyOS needs such a large EFI, I have a second EFI partition just for Cachy (1n1p6).

In the Fedora 44 Beta installer, Fedora-Workstation-Live-44_Beta-1.2.x86_64.iso, I can correctly manually assign root (1n1p8) and the EFI (1n1p1) BUT on the next screen, Fedora warns me that it’s ALSO going to format the CachyOS EFI (1n1p6).

There appears to be no way to stop this, so I cancelled the install.

Again, my situation is very niche, but I thought I’d mention it.

Also, is there a better place to bring this up: a beta thread or git issue site?

Thanks,

Michael

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According to this bug ticket, the “format as efi” is a false alarm, and the partition won’t actually be touched.

I haven’t verified that directly myself.

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I guess I can be the guinea pig on F44 Beta to see if it formats or not. Who needs CachyOS anyway. :slight_smile:

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You could always dd its contents into a file first, just in case the installer does format it and you would like to get CachyOS back. :wink:

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Yes you could use your /boot/efi just need to configure with storege editor go back to storage configuration and select right top coner three dots . It will give you options to open storage editor

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That’s for the suggested work-arounds, but I’m not looking for a workaround. I just wanted to report a bug that I had found. :slight_smile:

As it turns out, I followed through with the install and it did NOT reformat the extra partition.

While that’s good… it’s still a bug! :smiley:

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No it’s not bug that is way you chose to install

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While you provided an alternative, manual assigning and partitioning should definitely NOT say it’s going to format other partitions. Not only is it a bug, someone provided the bug report above!

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Many releases ago Fedora would not install into a partition if it detected the presence of a Fedora installation in that partition. Now an installation formats both the OS and EFI partitions perhaps under the assumption that the user knows which partitions they want to use. This should only create confusion when an nth Linux distro is being installed.

My practice is to create appropriately sized partitions via gparted prior to a Linux installation.