Does Manual dual boot setups usually format the Windows EFI partition?
Hello everyone. I am in the process of performing a manual installation of Fedora with a Dual Boot setup with Windows 11 on the same drive.
Windows 11 has already been installed. I installed to its own individual partition, leaving the majority of my drive as an empty unallocated partition to use during the fedora installation.
At the final stages of the installation, the installer notes that it will be formatting nvme0n1p1, the 210 MB EFI drive, which I understand is the windows boot loader as seen below.
This does not seem right to me. I thought this would prevent any attempts to boot into windows at all from Grub for a dual boot system.
The following is the screenshot of the installer's storage configuration and mount point setup. I have not made any changes to any of the windows created partitions after installation.
Here is the output of lsblk from the live installer
liveuser@localhost-live:~$ lsblk -alNAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTSloop0 7:0 0 2.3G 1 loop /run/install/sources/mount-0000-live_os_image/run/rootfsbasesda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disksda1 8:1 0 2.6G 0 part /run/initramfs/livesda2 8:2 0 30M 0 partzram0 251:0 0 8G 0 disk [SWAP]luks-3ef5fc94-2f20-4801-82f1-a07b47def597 252:0 0 803.4G 0 cryptnvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disknvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 partnvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 partnvme0n1p3 259:3 0 124.2G 0 partnvme0n1p4 259:4 0 780M 0 partnvme0n1p5 259:5 0 1G 0 partnvme0n1p6 259:6 0 1.9G 0 partnvme0n1p7 259:7 0 803.4G 0 part
And a screenshot of the nvme drive form Gnome-Disks
Should This be considered expected behavior, and is good to proceed? Thank you for any assistance on the matter