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wattOS R10 / Re: Installation on Laptop (Toshiba Satellite) fails
« on: November 06, 2016, 05:03:55 PM »
No problem, cheiron.
I have gone a bit further on this.
I decided to let the installer delete everything on the hard-drive of the laptop in order to only install the live-usb-OS.
In this case the installer is able to create the necessary efi-boot-partition by itself.
The installer grabs the whole harddrive and creates only 3 partitions.
sda1 the efi-system-partition where grub must be installed
sda2 the root-partition of the OS
sda3 swap-partition
1. Made a brand new wattOS R10 USB-live stick with dd
Result: Installer crashed as usual, was not able to install grub into efi-systempartition.
2. Made a custom-distro with Pinguybuilder from my Peppermint-7 OS installation on my PC and made a live custom-USB-stick from it and installed on my laptop.
Result: Installer crashed. Was not able to install grub.
3. Made a live-usb-stick from Peppermint-7 iso and installed it on my laptop.
Result: Runs through without error. Installed grub into efi-boot-partition. Perfect.
At this point it is obvious that something on wattOS R10-iso is broken.
Same error occurs with my custom-OS, built with Pinguybuilder.
Only the standard Peppermint-7 iso, downloaded from their website, installs without crash, without error.
Same applies to Lubuntu 16.10, to Xubuntu and Mint-distros. They all do not crash, they all install grub into the efi-partition.
Now I will rest until biff finds time.
I have gone a bit further on this.
I decided to let the installer delete everything on the hard-drive of the laptop in order to only install the live-usb-OS.
In this case the installer is able to create the necessary efi-boot-partition by itself.
The installer grabs the whole harddrive and creates only 3 partitions.
sda1 the efi-system-partition where grub must be installed
sda2 the root-partition of the OS
sda3 swap-partition
1. Made a brand new wattOS R10 USB-live stick with dd
Result: Installer crashed as usual, was not able to install grub into efi-systempartition.
2. Made a custom-distro with Pinguybuilder from my Peppermint-7 OS installation on my PC and made a live custom-USB-stick from it and installed on my laptop.
Result: Installer crashed. Was not able to install grub.
3. Made a live-usb-stick from Peppermint-7 iso and installed it on my laptop.
Result: Runs through without error. Installed grub into efi-boot-partition. Perfect.
At this point it is obvious that something on wattOS R10-iso is broken.
Same error occurs with my custom-OS, built with Pinguybuilder.
Only the standard Peppermint-7 iso, downloaded from their website, installs without crash, without error.
Same applies to Lubuntu 16.10, to Xubuntu and Mint-distros. They all do not crash, they all install grub into the efi-partition.
Now I will rest until biff finds time.