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Cannot create FAT32 boot partition #2445

Closed Jazztache closed 2 months ago

Jazztache commented 3 months ago

Recently, I was creating a new Arch install on my Steam Deck (64GB SSD).

I did the following:

Using the manual partition screen, I deleted the partitions to get a fresh start for when Arch installed. I then used Create A New Partition > Fat32, and got the error as described in the log. archinstall-githubissue.log

Next I tried using fdisk to wipe the partitions, in order to see if that would help resolve the issue as a workaround. I deleted the partitions using the 'd1,d2,d3,w' commands to get rid of the three partitions.

I did pacman -Q archinstall, and my version is 2.7.2-1

When I go into the manual partitioning again, it says I have a fat32 partition that takes up my entire disk. I deleted it, twice, to remove it from the menu. Then I selected 'Create a new partition' > 'fat32', and it crashed with the same error.

This is completely preventing me from installing Arch Linux at all.