I’m trying to install Bluefin (latest LTS, intel cpu, nvidia gpu) on a UEFI system with a single NVMe drive. The system originally had Windows 11, which I resized to create free space. Secure Boot is disabled, UEFI only.
What happened:
- The first Bluefin installation completed successfully.
The installer finished without errors and the system rebooted normally.
After reboot, during the initial setup / first‑boot wizard, the system got stuck and could not complete setup. It got stuck in the “select timezone” page. I never reached a usable desktop with a user
Assuming the install might be incomplete or broken, I booted the Bluefin live ISO and tried to reinstall Bluefin.
That reinstall attempt failed with a bootloader error:
“Bootloader write config: grub2-mkconfig: child process exited”
While troubleshooting, I also tried:
• delete all Bluefin partitions
• install/uninstall Ubuntu to see if can fix any grub related settings
• Retrying the Bluefin installer
From the live environment, I discovered that maybe failed Bluefin reinstall left behind active storage (LVM created by Anaconda and mounted under /var/mnt/sysroot / /var/mnt/sysimage).
At this point I seem stuck in a loop and already spent quite some time on it.
I was looking forward to try an immutable os, but coming from ubuntu, the experience so far is ridiculous!
I saw that there is also a cboot installation approach. I didn’t check the details but probably will be the last thing to try before quitting.
Any help would be much appreciated!