elementary / elementary/installer

Installer failing with hardware error

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Description

Installer fails with "Could not install"
Message: "Installing elementary OS 6 early access failed, possibly due to a hardware error..."

PC:
XPS 13 9300, i7 1065G7, 1gb SSD

Partition setup:
/dev/nvme0n1p1: 16gb SWAP
/dev/nvme0n1p2: 1gb FAT32 efi (for arch)
/dev/nvme0n1p3: 300gb ext4 (arch)
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1gb FAT32 efi (for gentoo)
/dev/nvme0n1p5 300gb ext4 (gentoo)
**/dev/nvme0n1p6 1gb fat32 efi (for elementary)**
**/dev/nvme0n1p7 336gb ext4 (elementary)**

Details info:

```
INFO: running "chroot" "/tmp/distinst.mfSxvTDrmawq" "apt-get" "install" "-q" "-y" "-o" "Acquire::cdrom::AutoDetect=0" "-o" "Acquire::cdrom::mount=/cdrom" -o" "APT:CDROM::NoMount=1 "grub-efi" "grub-efi-amd64" "grub-efi-amd64-signed" "shim-signed" "mokutil" "fwupdate-signed" "linux-signed-generic" "e2fsprogs" "dosfstools"
ERROR: configuring chroot error: error installing packages: command failed with exit status: exit code: 100
```

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- grab a completely fine pendrive,
- flash any build with balena-etcher on arch linux.
- attempt to install on the end of your storage drive

obs: i typed the details info by hand because i couldn't copy paste from the installer
edit: i have tried with internet connection

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