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As with an input issue I had in Bazzite recently, getting Bazzite installed was, itself, a major effort on my Lenovo Yoga 7. I went through a lot of troubleshooting steps with this one and could easily write a few pages about my experience. I tried numerous installs with slight variations, tried using different USB storage devices and even switching from using Belena Etcher to Fedora Media Writer to prep the USB drives with the Bazzite image.

Every installation appeared to work properly until the end. The system would reboot and go straight into Windows instead of displaying a boot menu and then loading Bazzite.

I even tried one suggestion to create the properly sized partitions in Windows and then use the Bazzite setup program to format those partitions for Bazzite. That did not work.

The only solution that ended up working was to use the Automatic partitioning option. Note that prior to doing this, I first resized the Windows partition directly from Windows 11 to create free space. When I used the automatic partitioning process I used options to only use the free space – be careful at this step or you may “reclaim” your Windows partition for use with Bazzite.

Finally, it presented the boot menu and from that point on I was able to easily switch between Bazzite or Windows.

Though not part of my original plan, I ended up installing Linux Mint after freeing up some more space from Windows for a triple-boot configuration. When Mint added its boot menu, Windows was listed but Bazzite wasn’t. I solved this by booting into Bazzite using the UEFI boot selector and then rexecuting ujust regenerate-grub from a terminal in Bazzite, which created and applied a new boot menu that listed all three operating systems.