Cannot read boot entry

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Hello,

I’ve been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for couple of months and I really love it. (AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M).

I decided to install Tumbleweed on my PC along Windows 11 (I still need Windows for some work-related applications)… at least for the time being.

I want to keep Windows 11 on my 1st SSD (Gen5) and Tumbleweed on my 2nd SSD (Gen 4). I believe will be better to have them separately. On my 2nd SSD I have an NTFS partition for some data and 500Gb unallocated space for Tumbleweed.

Hardware: Ryzen 9 9950X3d, RTX 5070 Ti.

This is the error:

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Error
Cannot read boot menu entry:
Command ‘[[“/usr/bin/bootctl”, “–json=short”, “list”]]’.
Error output: Couldn’t find EFI system partition. It is recommended tomount it to/boot/ or /efi/
Alternatively, use --esp-path= tospecify path to mount point.

Boot Loader type: Systemd
What I’ve been trying so far: Guided Setup, Expert Partitioner, Increasing Windows EFI partition from 260Mb to 1.5Gb (just in case the installer will see it and stops there), hiding Windows EFI partition completely, manually creating EFI System Partition w Mount Point /boot/efi or Mount Point /boot.

Thank you in advance

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How did you boot the installer?

What you are seeing is what I would expect if you booted it in legacy mode rather than with EFI booting.

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Thank you for your reply.

EFI booting.

After dozens of attempts and trying everything I still can’t manage to install Tumbleweed on my 2nd SSD.

I gave up and Installed Tumbleweed on 1st SSD along Windows, no issues whatsoever. Everything works quite well, including Nvidia Drivers.

I am not sure if is motherboard related (an asus tuf gaming 650 plus) or just a bug with the installer. It seems like everything got installed on 2nd SSD where I want, but as soon as it needs to use EFI partition is trying to use the Windows EFI partition on 1st SSD and stops there (even though I used Expert Partitioner and instruct to create an 2Gb EFI partion on 2nd SSD).

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I’m glad you have it working, even if not the way that you wanted.

You should not be having these problems. But I cannot guess what went wrong.

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Maybe the second EFI was created but not pointed to in the mount options and/or bootloader configuration?

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I’ve tried all 3 variants - Mounting Point /boot/efi, /boot and /efi :slight_smile:

The only thing which I haven’t tried and I should’ve done it, is to actually remove the 1st SSD. I assume, this way the installer will completely miss the EFI partition and forced to create the new one.

I still believe there was something to do with the motherboard`s “memory”, but couldn’t figure out what as I had Tumbleweed installed before (Grub2 for EFI) - I completely removed it from 1st SSD to re-install on 2nd SSD using systemd. At this point I had some issues with the BIOS using the grub menu from previous install, even though I’ve selected systemd, so I had to remove it using cmd in Windows.

Sorry if it’s a bit confusing :slight_smile:

Anyway, thank you both for your replies. I will just keep both OS on the same SSD for the time being…