Lenovo B590 doesn't boot after installing LMDE4

[illTill]

Hey,

after two succesful installations of Debbie, I wanted to renew my old Lenovo B590, which still had Windows 7 installed.
Booting from the Live-USB was no problem and I installed Debbie.
Now it doesn't boot and it seems to me like the Harddrive is not recognised.
(I tried installing it with LVM, without LVM and writing the boot-partition in alle possible partitions (sda, sda1, sda2), but always the same)
Media-Test failure is showed on the startscreen. and i come directly to the BootMenu, when I select the HDD it just starts all over.

I ran the lenovo Diagnostics - Quick storage device test, which failed at smart short self-test and Target read test, the rest passed.

The BIOS Boot is set to to both, Legacy and UEFI.
BIOS-Version: H1ET84WW (1.22)
HDD: WD5000LPVT-24G33T1

Bootin from the USBDrive still works.
I'm pretty sure you need more Details etc., but don't know what helps you, so pls tell me what you need to know!

[antikythera]

start the live media again and use the boot rescue program, you're missing the bootloader and that will install it for you.

[kc1di]

do you know what video card is in the machine?

[illTill]

start the live media again and use the boot rescue program, you're missing the bootloader and that will install it for you.

I already started Boot Repair, but it didn't solve the problem.

Edith: or do you mean smth else then the Boot Repair?

do you know what video card is in the machine?

Its on the CPU, an Intel 3rd Gen Graphic Controller
the CPU is Intel i5-3230M (2,6GHz)

[illTill]

I just remembered, that the first time I wanted to install Debbie on this machine I got an Error. I just restarted the Laptop and then there was no problem. It's btw. the same USB-Drive/ISO-Image I used for my other succesfull installations. I now tried to install again and got the same Error:

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128)

So, any suggestions? Is the ISO somehow broken or is it with the Laptop, motherboard, HDD, driver incompability etc.?

[antikythera]

I just remembered, that the first time I wanted to install Debbie on this machine I got an Error. I just restarted the Laptop and then there was no problem. It's btw. the same USB-Drive/ISO-Image I used for my other succesfull installations. I now tried to install again and got the same Error:

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 36: ordinal not in range(128)

So, any suggestions? Is the ISO somehow broken or is it with the Laptop, motherboard, HDD, driver incompability etc.?

That's a UTF-8 locale error, which as far duckduckgo says from stackoverflow is not hardware related. The hardware should be okay, I was running LMDE4 on an i3-3110M with Intel HD 4000 GPU up until it died recently. However to double check what hardware you have and see if there are any potential blockers (e.g. network adaptor, TPM or something else.) can you post inxi -Fxxxmz output from live media please?

Also, what language are you trying to install with? It may be worth doing the install with en-us and changing the language and locality after installation if you cannot get past that odd error.

[illTill]

I tried it in German, as I did in the previous installations as well.

inxi output:

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mint@mint:~$ inxi -Fxxxmz
System:
  Host: mint Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 62743UG v: Lenovo B590 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 62743UG serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO 
  v: H1ET84WW(1.22) date: 11/26/2013 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 12.6 Wh condition: 35.3/42.8 Wh (83%) volts: 10.5/10.8 
  model: SMP 45N1045 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.46 GiB used: 732.9 MiB (20.7%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3230M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20753 
  Speed: 1198 MHz min/max: 1200/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197 
  3: 1198 4: 1198 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-8-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A port: efa0 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 14e4:4727 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: wlp2s0b1 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 480.61 GiB used: 1.94 GiB (0.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000LPVT-24G33T1 
  size: 465.76 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: USB Flash size: 14.84 GiB 
  serial: <filter> rev: 0.00 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.73 GiB used: 55.2 MiB (3.1%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: 28.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 182 Uptime: 58m Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
  gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.32 
mint@mint:~$ 

Edit:
I'm really not an expert with OS and partitions and so on, but when I remember correctly, this Laptop got this One-Key.Recovery and therefor a separate partition for it. Is it possible, that this Lenovo specific structure is now failing the boot, as there is no "connection" (of a driver or so) between motherboard and HDD?

Edit2 aka Update:
I tried installing in us-en and there was no Error while installing. But still not able to boot.
That's btw.: the screen while starting:


I can btw. enter the Harddrive when I boot with the USB-drive, so as far as I understand, there should be no broken cable.
I also checked the Boot-Order and set the HDD om first place, as this was th solution I find online.

[Joe2Shoe]

"Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.73 GiB used: 55.2 MiB (3.1%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102"

That looks like you probably have some bad sectors on the HDD.
Either try to repair the HDD or replace it with a new HDD.

Good luck.

[antikythera]

"Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.73 GiB used: 55.2 MiB (3.1%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102"

That looks like you probably have some bad sectors on the HDD.

That's the bootable media not the internal storage. There's nothing to worry about with that partition information, it's the normal state for it.

[antikythera]

I tried installing in us-en and there was no Error while installing. But still not able to boot.

You may do better with Mint 20 or 20.1 then for that laptop. The support for EFI is marginally better from Ubiquity installer used by Mint 20/20.1 than the quite old version of the Calamares installer on LMDE4.

[Decoy[txt]]

Did you verify the integrity of your ISO?
I don't know a whole lot but I know that that actually fixed one of my problems I had on my first install, And I knew all of my hardware worked.

[Joe2Shoe]

Ditto on my previous post.

I would reformat the HDD to .ext4 (erasing Win7 if you do NOT want to keep it).
Then rewrite the .iso using USB Image Writer under Accessories.
Then try again.