Have a Acer Predator Helios 500 that is having startup issues with the Windows 11 it has. Can get it to but from Fedora 37 install ISO, but reboots put it back to start. Had a 128G flash, so wanted to install on it for testing. Install seemed to go fine, had it use standard partitions and had it automatically create. After complete, the Acer would not show the flash as a boot option?? For some reason the default setup had created the EFI System as 600M with Fat32. On one of my other Fedora machines used gparted to resize it to 63M and that converted it to Fat16? Then the 128G usb would show up as a boot option, and seems to work fine. Questions: 1. Why did the default setup create a 600M partition for EFI Sytem? 2. Not sure if the large size was too large for the Acer or what??
The info on flash that now is working. Just has a whole of the extra space between the end of current sdb1 and start of sdb2.
sfdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 118.5 GiB, 127238406144 bytes, 248512512 sectors Disk model: USB 3.0 FD Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: B3A26560-321A-4CF0-A9F9-7030EFA868DD
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 131071 129024 63M EFI System /dev/sdb2 1230848 3327999 2097152 1G Linux filesystem /dev/sdb3 3328000 150128639 146800640 70G Linux filesystem /dev/sdb4 150128640 248510463 98381824 46.9G Linux filesystem
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