I have 2 SSDs, one with Windows and i’m slowly migrating to Linux. On the 2nd SSD there were several distros, lately a Fedora40 which died from the latest Mesa update so i thought i try Bazzite but for the life of me this thing does not want to be installed. I’m slightly frustrated, forgive my manners.
During the installation i choose to format /, /boot/efi and leave /home as is but it always quits with an error message stating it cannot create grub. I read previously that it could be an issue because i had Fedora so i formatted the boot partition from windows, same issue. When i choose to ignore the issue it simply quits with a fatal error.
It should be simple. It should be ‘next-next-finish’. What am i doing wrong?
Hi! I believe the recommended manual partition layout is like this (from here):
Manual Partitioning Scheme:
mount point: /boot/efi
format: EFI system partition
size: 300MB
(optional: use existing system EFI partition)
mount point: /boot
format: ext4
size: 1GB
mount point:
format: btrfs
size: [max]
mount point: /
format: btrfs (subvolume)
mount point: /var
format: btrfs (subvolume)
mount point: /var/home
format: btrfs (subvolume)
A home subvolume can be mounted at /var/home can also be added to the btrfs volume during the installation, and after installation you can mount additional drives at /var/mnt/drive-label. I’m not sure if using /home and missing explicit creation of /boot will cause GRUB installation failure, but maybe you can try following the specified layout or use automatic partitioning instead?
As i mentioned, i was frustrated. I followed the manual partitioning scheme and it worked instantly. Thank you!
P.s.: don’t do this at 2am, not worth it
Happy to hear it worked! Enjoy Bazzite! 
I too have gone through many frustrating consequences of 2 AM decisions…