Drive w/ Bazzite Not Recognized As Bootable?
I'm new to Linux and have just installed Bazzite on my secondary drive. I had to shrink part of my secondary drive in order to make room for the Bazzite installation but otherwise everything went smoothly.
However, I can't seem to boot into Bazzite at all. In my Bios (MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi) I don't see my second drive (Samsung 980 Pro) as a boot option, and Disk Management doesn't show my E: drive as a Boot drive either. I can still access it as normal and run games off it, but it's as if I never installed Bazzite at all.
Would appreciate if someone could help me to understand how to get Bazzite to boot or installed properly if I did something wrong.
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In the Click 5 Bios Settings I went to "UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priorities" and it allowed me to choose which drive to boot from. I can't set a boot order so that if Linux fails to boot it will go to Windows though.
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We can see that Bazzite is installed here as it has the expected 3 partitions.
If you Open Command Prompt as administrator
Run
bcdedit /enum firmware do you see an entry that looks something like this?
Yes, it shows the boot manager for Windows as well as something similar.
Also worth noting that when looking at the partitions in DiscGenius I can see the Fedora and Boot files, and also Grub.
I'm having this exact same issue with my msi laptop not reading my new drive with bazzite as a boot option.
So all the files are there. Quick question, have you disabled "fast boot" in the BIOS? If it's not disabled the BIOS won't scan the disks for bootable EFI partitions on startup so it won't find Bazzite
I didn't see a fast boot option in the Bios anywhere.
Under "UEFI Hard Disk Drive BBS Priorities" I found the option to choose whether to boot Windows or Fedora though.
When I attempted to boot it I got taken to the blue screen and then Grub, but trying to boot Fedora gave me an error message. Had to go back and have it boot to Windows instead.
Ah secure boot, you skipped the blue enrollment screen, so you'll need to turn off secure boot, enroll the key and turn it back on again, instructions in the docs https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/troubleshoot_guide/#bad-shim-signature-you-need-to-load-the-kernel-first-error
Or you can just turn secure boot off. MSI puts it's secure boot settings under Advanced >> Windows OS Configuration >> Secure boot
Installation Troubleshoot Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
From a quick search it appears that the MSI Click Bios 5 has no Fast Boot option.
Alright that was it, I'm in now. Thanks.
If I have any trouble getting Grub set up so I can select which OS to boot to on startup should I make another thread?
Seemed to freeze up mid setup and was stuck on "Setting Up Bazzite", with a blank console. Possibly because I was playing with the settings and desktop layout before it was done. I signed out and back in and it seems to be working fine, but not sure if stuff will be broken now.
Also when attempting to enroll the secure boot key I'm being told "universalblue" doesn't match.
The Help Center seems to be broken, the window to show the documentation doesn't show anything and flickers between white and transparent when it's moused over.
This worked for me as well, thank you!
if you have a different keyboard layout you need to type universalblue as if the layout was a us keyboard. E.g. if you have an Azerty keyboard you'll need to type "universqlblue"
Also how did you manage to boot into Bazzite in the first place? What was your workaround? That would be helpful for anyone viewing this thread who also have MSI BIOSs
Solution
In the Click 5 Bios Settings I went to "UEFI Hard Disk BBS Priorities" and it allowed me to choose which drive to boot from. I can't set a boot order so that if Linux fails to boot it will go to Windows though.
I imagine there's something similar available for other bios.
By US layout do you mean QWERTY? I'm using a TKL QWERTY keyboard.
Yup. weird that universalblue isn't working then, are you sure that capslock is off?
Pretty sure
btw what password are you typing for?
if you are enrolling key iirc it will ask for your user password first
Oh, okay that was my mistake. Going off the video I thought it was just universalblue I'm supposed to enter.
from the blue screen yes
but from inside bazzite is a bit different
I was on the blue screen, is the thing.
I got past entering those passwords in the terminal.
very weird
is the iso latest one?
its normal
I'd think so, I flashed it onto a USB yesterday.
typing password arent visible by default
Oh I see, okay I got it now.
there is ujust for enabling
* if you prefer seeing it
ujust toggle-password-feedback assuming you got past the secure boot thing thoI haven't tried it again, guessing I'd need to repeat some steps to get to the MDK Management screen again.
you can enroll from bazzite
Secure Boot Instructions - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
Alright, worked that time for whatever reason. Maybe because I enabled secure boot in the bios first and I missed that step before.
Thanks a ton.
Also one more small thing, my desktop wallpaper keeps resetting to the default after each reboot. It shows that it's set to the image I chose, but I have to change it to another one and then back in order for it to actually show up.
kde or gnome?
kde plasma
you mean desktop wallpaper or login wallpaper
desktop