Live boot from USB is fine, after install, only boots to terminal

[mjfeeney]

I have been running Mint on this box for at least 5 years now and have never had an issue. I was running 19 for a long time, and never upgraded to 20. I just decided to move to 21 yesterday. I created my boot usb, and it runs perfectly fine live off the usb. After I was satisfied with how it was running, I clicked the Install Linux Mint icon, and it installed normally like it always does. After reboot, however, it only boots up to a terminal window, It won't accept the startx command, and it never asks me for a login. I'm not sure what to do with it at this point. I am running on the USB drive again, and I have pasted a copy of the inxi -Fxzd output below. Any advice appreciated!


UPDATE
I deleted my 2 drive RAID 0 and installed to a single drive bypassing the RAID, and it works fine. Any ideas on how to get it to boot from a RAID 0? It used to work just fine on Mint 19
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mint@mint:~$ inxi -Fxzd
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision M6600 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0NVY5D v: A01 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
    v: A12 date: 08/09/2012
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-2620M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1301 high: 1761 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 1351
    2: 1030 3: 1063 4: 1761 bogomips: 21552
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF104GLM [Quadro 3000M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
    v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
    v: 3.3 Mesa 22.0.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF104 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: 8080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Dell Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A
    bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF-ID-1: wlp3s0b1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dell DW375 Bluetooth Module type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.4:3
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.0 lmp-v: 3.0
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:1f.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 252.46 GiB used: 2.28 GiB (0.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 120GB SSD size: 111.79 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: PNY model: CS900 120GB SSD size: 111.79 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Patriot model: N/A size: 28.88 GiB
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: DVD+-RW TS-U633J rev: D600
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.75 GiB used: 129.6 MiB (1.6%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C mobo: 48.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau
    temp: 45.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
  Processes: 231 Uptime: 11m Memory: 15.51 GiB used: 1.94 GiB (12.5%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: 2078 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

[mikeflan]

I don't have a clue. I just wanted to welcome you to the forum and bump this for you.

[SMG]

I deleted my 2 drive RAID 0 and installed to a single drive bypassing the RAID, and it works fine. Any ideas on how to get it to boot from a RAID 0? It used to work just fine on Mint 19

Welcome to the forum, mjfeeney.

Both LM20 versions and LM21 have a "bug" in the installer which creates an efi partition even for computers without UEFI like yours. The way to work around that happening is to create your partitions ahead of time and then select the "Something Else" option during install.

I do not know how that "bug" might manifest itself in a RAID where someone does an erase and install. Did you do an erase and install or a "Something Else" when you did it the first time?

Also, check the output of inxi -Px on your installed version of LM21 to see if an efi partition shows up.

[Jo-con-Ël]

I do not know how that "bug" might manifest itself in a RAID where someone does an erase and install.

Linux Mint installer bugs happen in the same way on RAID volumesbut there is another problem in case of hardware RAID affecting users (including me). Linux Mint 21 Live (neither on Ubuntu 22.04, I have tried it) does not manage fake RAID as it used to(*) . See this post workaround.

I clicked the Install Linux Mint icon, and it installed normally like it always does. After reboot, however, it only boots up to a terminal window,
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UPDATE
I deleted my 2 drive RAID 0 and installed to a single drive bypassing the RAID, and it works fine. Any ideas on how to get it to boot from a RAID 0? It used to work just fine on Mint 19

You need to explain a bit. What do you mean with installed normaly? Please answer SMG's questions. What option did/do you choose (Erase all and install, Something else...)?

We need to make something else (see link workaround above) in order we can access RAID volume partitions to be mounted or removed. Maybe you were able to create new partition table on RAID volume (*). A per bug SMG already mentioned, installer will create a GPT partitioning scheme and install on UEFI mode on certain circumtances. Maybe that UEFI installation was fine and the problem was trying to boot on BIOS mode. Now we'll never know because you installed a second time on single drive.

If you are trying to install on RAID array from cratch again change computer setting accordingly and try to create new partition table on RAID volumen (MBR/dos) with gparted and create partition before trying to install with Something else....

If you can not create partitions with Gparted on RAID volume or mount them once they are created, apply that workaround.

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(*)I want to keep Windows and LM 20 intalled, only will upgrade LM 19. 1 to LM21 on future. Obviously I did not tried to create new partion table on installing with Something else option or tried to install with Erase all and install Mint option, but installed on UEFI mode on another drive and Installer, because another known bug, was trying to access to UEFI partition on RAID to place loader on it and fails.

Neither I could remove flags on RAID EFI partition to install loader on that other drive EFI partition. I decided to use another Linux MInt 20.3 Live USB, but applying that kpartx workaround I would able to remove flag/reflag.