Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation cannot proceed because of missing UEFI partition

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to proceed with the Build process because of unknown disk format.
  • Failed to find a suitable stage1 device efi system partition cannot be of type xfs.
  • When selecting Automatic partitioning, no issues occurred, but when custom partitions are configured the installation cannot proceed.

Environment

  • Observed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, but the problem is expected to appear in other versions as well.

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