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Hello All!


Did report this before at least as far as v9 but since updating to v10 and
in general it is working I still do not have a EFI partition as far as boot install is aware - just produce a failure and request to notify Mageia.

Now I run a M.2 SSD for primary boot parttion and data along with 3 HDD's
that hold data and older boot versions ie., v8, v9 etc. SDA has a EFI
system of 100M.

As for the SSD this is the o/p from fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1

isk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors

Disk model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB
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: 7F4A4E38-FFD7-4AB8-9E92-3A3530D3A074

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 4129 2082 1M BIOS boot
/dev/nvme0n1p2 6144 105476129 105469986 50.3G Linux filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p3 105478144 113864737 8386594 4G Linux swap /dev/nvme0n1p4 113866752 1739882495 1626015744 775.3G Linux filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p5 1739882496 1843578879 103696384 49.4G Linux filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p6 1843578880 1949351935 105773056 50.4G Linux filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p7 1949351936 1949571071 219136 107M EFI System

Now P7 only contains System Volume Information folder with no content.

Clearly the boot installer is not seeing partition P7 but it is not
mounted.

Now, if I reboot for a new kernel it will only boot to 6.6.141-desktop and
all others are ignored as grub is not set up, So how do I fix this problem?
The above tested by running uname -a giving :

Linux applewood.study2 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat
May 23 20:28:01 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux


The content of /boot is :

289K Jun 9 16:17 config-6.18.35-desktop-1.mga10
289K Jul 19 01:49 config-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10
267K May 23 21:47 config-6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9
4.0K Feb 10 2026 dracut
3 Jan 10 2026 efi -> EFI
4.0K Jun 27 2025 EFI
599K Jul 23 19:03 gfxmenu
4.0K Aug 11 19:39 grub2
30M Jul 23 19:03 initrd-6.18.35-desktop-1.mga10.img
30M Aug 5 18:41 initrd-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10.img
27M Jul 23 19:03 initrd-6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9.img
34 Aug 5 18:41 initrd-desktop.img -> initrd-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10.img
34 Aug 5 18:41 initrd.img -> initrd-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10.img
190K Jun 9 16:17 symvers-6.18.35-desktop-1.mga10.xz
190K Jul 19 01:49 symvers-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10.xz
164K May 23 21:47 symvers-6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9.xz
8.8M Jun 9 16:17 System.map-6.18.35-desktop-1.mga10
8.8M Jul 19 01:49 System.map-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10
7.0M May 23 21:47 System.map-6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9
31 Aug 5 18:41 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10
15M Jun 9 16:17 vmlinuz-6.18.35-desktop-1.mga10
15M Jul 19 01:49 vmlinuz-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10
12M May 23 21:47 vmlinuz-6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9
31 Aug 5 18:41 vmlinuz-desktop -> vmlinuz-6.18.39-desktop-1.mga10


Simply, using MCC Install boot fails and I need a fix please.


Vincent



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