Hello,
I have just downloaded the latest LMDE 64-bit Live-DVD. The live systems boots up just fine, I even got to work WiFi in a very short time, all my hardware seems to be compatible and is being recognized. So I decided to install it to my SSD hard drive. I closely followed those directions in order to do that right: http://helpsite.org/linux-mint-debian-edition/. However, after the installation process finished "successfully", I restarted my system, and that's when strange things started to happen: At first it seems like my system is trying to perform network booting, and then it just says "Operating System not found."
So I started the Live-DVD again and noticed that everything is availible: Each partition and everything. I. e. my user account has obviously been created since its in the /home partition. So I started googleing and found this fellow's post, who seems to have the exact same problem: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=189&t=82795 He is being told that he needs to install grub-efi afterwards.
Now, I have two questions: Is this applicable to my problem? I can switch from UEFI to Legacy mode and it makes no difference. And secondly, if applicable, how do I do that? I have tried to find a solution for that, but I couldn't find anything on LMDE.
I'd really appreciate any kind of help.
Best regards,
duebelmann
EDIT: Before I forget: I am working on a ThinkPad X121e (the i3 configuration). And I found that on the arch linux wiki: "Some of the known x86_64 UEFI 2.x firmwares are Phoenix SecureCore Tiano, AMI Aptio, Insyde H2O." -> I got the Phoenix one...
Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot up
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Re: Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot
I'm no expert and I don't know if the new grub will help but maybe the use of "chroot" is called for.
You should boot from live DVD/CD and install the mentioned grub in your system.
You should boot from live DVD/CD and install the mentioned grub in your system.
Re: Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot
Okay, I'll try that. In order to do that I looked for a tutorial on how to do this from a live system and this is what I found: http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2 ... m-live-cd/ Now this is only about installing regular grub. As far as I know, I need to install grub-efi-amd64. Can I still use it, simply replacing "grub" with "grub-efi-amd64"?
I also would like to know how to fix the following error when I try to run "sudo apt-get install -t unstable grub-efi-amd64":
"E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"
I know that I have to edit the soures list, but it seems like I can't while working on a live system.
I also would like to know how to fix the following error when I try to run "sudo apt-get install -t unstable grub-efi-amd64":
"E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"
I know that I have to edit the soures list, but it seems like I can't while working on a live system.
Re: Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot
As I said I'm no expert but it seems like you could use it like regular grub.duebelmann wrote:Okay, I'll try that. In order to do that I looked for a tutorial on how to do this from a live system and this is what I found: http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2 ... m-live-cd/ Now this is only about installing regular grub. As far as I know, I need to install grub-efi-amd64. Can I still use it, simply replacing "grub" with "grub-efi-amd64"?
"This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use with EFI-AMD64 architecture ..."
It removes grub-pc when trying to install.
But first you should maybe look into "grub2efi". Originally for Mac this might help ...
Adding sources to a live system is as far as I've read not possible. When you've made yourself familiar with chroot you could always build your own live system.I also would like to know how to fix the following error when I try to run "sudo apt-get install -t unstable grub-efi-amd64":
"E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"
I know that I have to edit the soures list, but it seems like I can't while working on a live system.
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edit: Maybe it's enough to download the package and the dependencies and install them then.
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The following packages will be REMOVED:
grub-pc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin
Re: Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot
Thank you for your replies. I have been trying to solve my problem, and here's what I did:
- I started LMDE-Live once again.
- I started GParted formatted sda1 to fat32, labled it "BOOT" abd flagged it "boot". The rest of my disk looks like that:
- Then I managed to add to my souces.list and deleted , since it seemed that I couldn't etablish a connection to that.
- Then I tried to run This looked like it would work, but then I got the following error:
- I ignored the error since I couldn't figure out what it was about. So I did this:
- When I tried to run # grub-mkconfig I once again got an error which seems familiar I once again didn't know what was wrong...
When my computer tries to boot now, there's no "Operating System not found." - Now I get "Welcome to GRUB! error: unknown filesystem" I'd be very thankful for help since I start to loose faith that I'll make LMDE work on my X121e...
Best regards,
duebelmann
- I started LMDE-Live once again.
- I started GParted formatted sda1 to fat32, labled it "BOOT" abd flagged it "boot". The rest of my disk looks like that:
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/dev/sda2/ ext4 / (root)
/dev/sda3/ linux-swap
/dev/sda4 ext4 /home
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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
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http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest
- Then I tried to run
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# apt-get install grub-efi-amd64
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Replacing config file /etc/default/grub with new version
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-efi-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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# mkdir /boot/efi
# mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
# mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI
# modprobe dm-mod
# grub-install --root-directory=/boot/efi/EFI --no-floppy --recheck
# cp /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 /boot/efi/EFI/grub
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/grub/grub.cfg
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/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
When my computer tries to boot now, there's no "Operating System not found." - Now I get "Welcome to GRUB! error: unknown filesystem" I'd be very thankful for help since I start to loose faith that I'll make LMDE work on my X121e...
Best regards,
duebelmann
Re: Live-DVD works perfectly, installed system doesn't boot
This becomes more of a Linux advanced thread ...
A quick search for that indicates you have to bind /dev (and more).
Did you follow the tutorial in your link?duebelmann wrote:/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).
A quick search for that indicates you have to bind /dev (and more).