Installation fails [SOLVED]

[Moderator caprea]

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kaye wrote:

Sorry, could not mount /boot/efi partition

Boot with the live stick and type in terminal
lsblk -f
Look for the EFI partition, it’s the fat32 one, look for the UUID number. Something like 92E8-DD92 or longer.

Then open zzzFM, go to “devices” settings, show internal disks, and mark it. It should now let you look at the /etc/fstab of the newly installed system.Is the UUID the same as in the terminal output ?
If not edit as root to the same UUID as from the terminal command.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Try doing what it suggests.

If you are 95% done then only the boot loader and clean up remains in most antiX installations.

So try using the installation media again. Instead of an installation try doing the rescue as suggested and see if it is able to do a Grub rescue boot.

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Brian Masinick

[Member kaye]

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Hello again!

I tried the Boot Repair of the live USB again but instead of choosing the

Reinstall GRUB bootloader on ESP, MBR or PBR (root)

I chose the

Repair GRUB configuration file

It prompted me to “Select root location:”

I believe I chose the partition which I intended to be the root partition, is this correct?

Seems to have worked and now I have a fresh installation of antiX on my hard drive.

BUT, my obsessive compulsive disorder is bugging me. I need to know the following:

1. First of all, I changed the intended esp from fat32 to fat16, just out of curiosity. I left the size as is – 400 MB. Seems fine. Looking at GParted, it currently has used up only 536 KB (out of the 400 MB allotted to it). Normal?

2. I don’t think I’ve done anything drastic to my antiX live USB. All I did was use persistence.

Currently I can boot into this live USB and run it just fine, but I get these messages at boot:

Failed to set MokListXRT: Out of Resources
Could not create MokListXRT: Out of Resources
Welcome to GRUB!

error: no suitable video mode found.
error: no video mode activated.
error: no video mode activated.

then I get into the GRUB menu but it’s not the colored version; it’s just plain black screen with white text:`

antiX-21 x64-full (31 October 2021)
Language - Keyboard - Timezone
Advanced Options
Memory Test (64-bit UEFI)
Boot Rescue Menus
Help

Is my live-USB corrupted and thus not suitable to use as installer?

[Anonymous]

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The error message means:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=497279&sid=42bd7f098cdc050c364500a46dae5f88#p497279

[Member kaye]

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Thanks male for the link.

However my BIOS has no secure boot as far as I can tell. Can’t find it. Laptop was bought 2010 or 2011. Old laptop.

I’ll see if there is an option to select to boot from file efi-file. Update: Nope it does not.

Anyway. thanks again everyone. I learned a few things.

How do I mark this thread as [SOLVED] ?

• This reply was modified 11 months ago by kaye.
• This reply was modified 11 months ago by kaye.

[Anonymous]

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I would like to point out to you that you are under a misapprehension.

You did not try to install GRUB in the PBR. You tried to install grub to /boot/efi.

PBR is the first area of a partition, e.g. /dev/sda1
while
MBR is the first area of a hard disk, so e.g. /dev/sda

It would be nice if you could correct the title of your thread accordingly. Thanks.

[Member kaye]

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I would correct it but I don’t see an edit button.

[Anonymous]

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You call your opening post and edit the line with the keyboard. There is no button.

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