Today, I spent hours trying to install #Bluefin on an older laptop. The process always failed with "Failed to write boot loader configuration". I tried vanilla #Fedora Silverblue; same result. Finally, I installed Fedora Workstation and booted it successfully.
Following a tip found on the Bluefin Discord, I did "fwupdmgr refresh && fwupdmgr update", boosting the UEFI firmware from something like v54 to v379. And just now, the Bluefin installer says "Complete!"
Always update the BIOS first.
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