Zorin OS disk management fails during installation [RESOLVED

It looks like it can not delete or modify the earlier Fedora32 installation LVM-partition.
The menu is empty, where should be selection for the operation like delete, etc:

It looks like the menu from mouse right click is just undersized white box without any text of choices.

I'm no SSD expert (It is one piece of kit I am trying to avoid!). This thread may help or hinder:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=244534

jari@ENVY-17:~$ efibootmgr -b 0001
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,0002,2002,3002,0003,2004
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0002* ubuntu
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0004* rEFInd Boot Manager
Boot0005* Fedora
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot3002* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk

It does not seem to remove the boot image. How to delete the empty Bootimages?

Hi, I would take a look at GParted as standalone and refer to the Gparted manual:

https://gparted.org/download.php

https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual

It can not show the requested information of the boot order in the EFI -partition:

REQUESTED INFORMATION:
jari@ENVY-17:~$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,0002,2002,3002,0003,2004
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0002* ubuntu
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0004* rEFInd Boot Manager
Boot0005* Fedora
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot3002* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk

And here the
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0004* rEFInd Boot Manager
Boot0005* Fedora
should be deleted, because they might point to earlier deleted partitions.

This is something to do with the EFI-bootmanager rather than disk partitioning.


After latest apt -update, the EFI boot menu started to appear (which is great):
Upgrade: grub-common:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.14+zorin2, 2.02-2ubuntu8.15+zorin1),

jari@ENVY-17:/var/log/apt$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,0002,2002,3002,0003,2004
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0002* ubuntu
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0004* rEFInd Boot Manager
Boot0005* Fedora
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot3002* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk

But still these items 0001, 0004 and 0005 appear in the efibootmgr listing...

Wondering if the EFI entry needs to be deleted first? EFI after all is there to protect system/s from attack (including deletion):

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175608434/

That seemed to work:
'efibootmgr -Bb 0001'

jari@ENVY-17:~$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,0002,2002,3002,0003,2004
Boot0002* ubuntu
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot3002* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk

Zorin, Windows and device boots from USB, DVD and HDD remain.

Thanks. I think the manual is hard to read:
-b | --bootnum XXXX modify BootXXXX (hex)
-B | --delete-bootnum delete bootnum
and it needs -Bb to be the command.


It seems to work now but system "shutdown" became very slow now, maybe taking several minutes to reboot.
But startup is fast with this SDD.

Can this thread be marked as [SOLVED] now?

Yes. It's solved.

Hi Jarkky.
As you originated this thread, can you edit the subject line of your original post and add the word "[RESOLVED]"