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=== Assistant: Good catch — and this explains a lot. ===
Good catch — and this explains a lot. You’re not missing anything; you’re just looking in the wrong screen for that option. In Anaconda/Blivet the partition “device type” (ESP flag) is not shown as a field like filesystem/label/mountpoint. It’s inferred from how you create the partition.

Let me explain exactly what’s going on and how to fix it.

==== In the Blivet GUI: ====
* Filesystem / Label / Mountpoint → editable fields
* Partition type (ESP / standard) → set by which “Add” action you use

So if you create a “normal partition” and later set:
* filesystem = vfat
* mountpoint = /boot/efi

…that does NOT automatically mark it as an ESP.

You must create it as an EFI System Partition from the start.

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Make sure you’re clicking the disk, not free space inside LVM.

===== You should now see partition type options, usually something like: =====
* Standard Partition
* EFI System Partition
* LVM
* RAID
* etc.

👉 Select “EFI System Partition” here

(This is where the “device type” is chosen.)

===== Once you selected EFI System Partition, now fill: =====

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Click Add.

==== After adding it: ====
* It should be listed as EFI System Partition
* Filesystem: vfat
* Mountpoint: /boot/efi
* No encryption icon

If it only says “Standard Partition”, delete it and re-create it the correct way.

==== UEFI firmware: ====
* looks specifically for partition type GUID = ESP
* ignores plain FAT partitions

If ESP flag is missing:
* Installer may succeed
* System will not boot

This is why Anaconda is strict about ESP placement.

==== /boot is a normal partition, so here you do use: ====
* Standard Partition
* Filesystem: ext4
* Mountpoint: /boot
* Size: 1024 MiB
* Unencrypted

No special flag needed.

==== : ====

That’s exactly the trap:
* vfat ≠ ESP
* mountpoint ≠ ESP
* partition type = ESP

==== - ESP is chosen when adding the partition ====
* You won’t see “Device Type” as a field
* vfat + /boot/efi is not enough
* Must explicitly choose EFI System Partition

If you want, next you can:
* describe exactly what buttons you see when clicking +
* or paste the text layout shown in the installer

I’ll walk you through the next click if needed — you’re very close now.