cli-installer not letting me install to emmc

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I set the boot flag using fdisk and the system is UEFI

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In case you are using a UEFI (confirmed)

My case (UEFI tablet):
– “Security” Tab in UEFI –> Secure Boot [Disabled]

– “Boot” tab in UEFI –> Boot Option Priorities:
Boot Option #1 [boot partition]
Boot Option #2 [antiX System]

– In Gparted (on my antiX system), my Boot partition and antiX (root) partition are:
/dev/mmcblk0p2 – EFI system partition – fat32 – 100.00MiB (Flags: “boot” and “esp”)
/dev/mmcblk0p5 – antix – ext4 – / – rootantiX19 (no Flags)

Did you keep your EFI partition and add antix19 to it using “ESP” option in?

Dave wrote:

You should now be able to run a live session and do a grub repair.

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According to the installer, GRUB is installed on my root partition, which is my only partition.

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The EFI system partition (also called ESP) is an OS independent partition that acts as the storage place for the EFI bootloaders, applications and drivers to be launched by the UEFI firmware. It is mandatory for UEFI boot.
The UEFI specification mandates support for the FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32 file systems

From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition

Try creating a new 100MiB fat32 partition for the EFI system and use the Boot repair to install grub in this EFI partition (ESP)

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I formatted the partition with mkfs.vfat -F 32 and used this tutorial( terminal method) -I get an error saying File system ‘ext2’ does’t support embedding, the partition is fat32, I’ve also tried using this
guide : also tried using gdisk to create a partition with partition type EF00. “EFI” as per the wiki link you sent me and the partition refuses to mount with an error station that it has an invalid ntfs signature, after various attempts I tried running rescatux with no success, is there any chance this would be less troublesome on a sdcard? I imagine I would encounter similar issues, but I don’t know any better.

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Nothing I’ve tried is working so far, what specifically do you mean by “Boot repair”. I’ve tried this guide then this one

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Sounds like me

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=50525

Happened a while back and I can’t remember how I figured it out.
But I posted at least what the partitions looked like.

My only fault was making boot partition too large.

Fehlix gave excellent instructions for me if I wanted to repair that.

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Since you said you are using UEFI and since the cli-installer clearly states that it does NOT support it, I’m not surprised it failed even with Dave’s little trick to get it installed.

This *might* help. You need to install grub-efi (at least).

https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall

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Ninjad by anticapitalista

703m wrote:

Nothing I’ve tried is working so far, what specifically do you mean by “Boot repair”. I’ve tried this guide then this one

First you will need to create the fat32 ESP partition with the corresponding flags. You can try following the Arch wiki guide or other guide (I did it with Gparted method long ago, I think). Then,

Dave wrote:

You should now be able to run a live session and do a grub repair.

The only method I know is to launch an antiX full or base live-USB, and launch Boot Repair
Control Center > Maintenance > Boot Repair

Then select Reinstall Grub Bootloader

Install on ESP, and select EFI partition and root partition:

And Apply. Then reboot, go in to the “BIOS” and change Boot order.
Hopefully that fixes the problem.

The only thing I am not sure is if the ESP partition should be higher/on-top of the other partitions or not.

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I had to install grub-efi to get the boot repair bit to work, but it worked in the end, I don’t fully get how, but I’ll figure it out later. I appreciate the help everyone.

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Glad it is finally working.
Please let us know how antiX works on that box.

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