Can't finalize install of CachyOS

Issues & Assistance
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Hi, new user here. Congratulations for CachyOS, it looks amazing! I’ve tried installing it on a laptop, dual booting with Windows 11. Installation media booted fine, everything went fine until the very last step, where I got an installation failed message. I’ve tried re-installing, with all the boot options (systemd-boot, grub, refind), but the installation always stops at the last moment. I can see a Linux boot manager has been installed (not sure which one, I think it’s refind), but it shows only Win11.

This is the output I get at the end: https://termbin.com/nf6t

I would appreciate your guidance on this one, thank you very much!

2

can you chroot the new system, does it work? if, i would finish the installation manually.
you must only find the point calamares has faild :wink:

3

Mhmm, that looks like to me that the bootloader can not find the path.
Can you maybe share the partition layout you are using?

4

Thanks for the quick replies! This is my partition table.

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0         7:0    0   2.2G  1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda           8:0    1  57.3G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    1  57.3G  0 part /run/archiso/bootmnt
zram0       254:0    0  15.2G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   260M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    16M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 185.5G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   850M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0  19.3G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6    0     1G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p7 259:7    0     2G  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p8 259:8    0   268G  0 part

I’ll read more about chroot - I have to say I’m not a highly technical user, and it’s been a long while since I’ve used Linux.

Thanks!

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Could you help me, which partiition is used by Linux?

Actually the partition layout of the bootloaders can be also found here: