Calamares Installer: EFI System Partition Configured Incorrectly

Thanks to Ubuntu, Linux desktop now have Calamares Installer. Despite there is no official statement, I am quite sure that Calamares Installer is built, deeply inspired by Ubuntu's Ubiquity Installer. This modern, simplified, distro-agnostic Linux installer has user interface and experience that is very similar to Ubiquity Installer.

Now, many modern Linux distros, including Debian Live, come with Calamares installer. Even Fedora is now considering to replace their own Anaconda installer with Calamares. As a Linux enthusiast, I am really really happy with the born of Calamares. It is undoubtedly the easiest, robust Linux installer we can expect. Many thanks to the developer.

Unfortunately, I met an error message when installing Linux with Calamares. There is an error message: "EFI System Partition Configured Incorrectly" when I choose manual partitioning.

I was sure that I have did everything right. I set an FAT32 partition as /boot/efi, with proper size, but Calamares kept showing me the error message. I met this message when installing Lubuntu 22.10, Nobara 37 and OpenMandriva 23.01. I did not meet this message when I was installing Debian 11 Live. So I concluded, this is a minor bug from newer Calamares installer.

Recently, I have a brand new, second hand laptop, so I have nothing to lose. I just kept the installation process being finished, and surprisingly the installation is successfully done. The GRUB is succeed and the Linux installation is successfully booted.

So, if you meet a worrying error message "EFI System Partition Configured Incorrectly", just keep going and go ahead. As long as you have set up the FAT32 as EFI partition correctly, your Linux installation would be succeed.

Hope the Calamares developers would fix this minor bug.

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