New installation:Bootloader error 1

[Jay Swenberger]

Hello All,
I'd been using Pep10 for a number of years but recently something was apparently corrupted and I was unable to close the picture viewer without just shutting down the power. The program repeatedly reloaded the same picture over and over. After I restarted the machine, I received a boot error that I was unable to get past.

I recently learned that Pep11 had been released (Big Thanks to the new development team) so I decided I might as well load up the new version. I've tried this three or four times and it continues to hang up around the 65% mark with a Bootloader Installation error. Here is the actual message (not copy and pasted so any syntax error is likely my own handwriting...):

"The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command

 grub -intstall --target=x8664 -efi --efi -directory+/boot/efi -bootloader -id=debian --force

returned error code 1."

Thoughts? suggestions? I'm no software guru, just someone with enough knowledge and too much self-confidence to get myself in over my head...

Thanks in advance,
Jay

[Jay Swenberger]

OOOOO, I found that this has been asked before....noob mistake. I'll go get the info needed and will repost!!!

[Jay Swenberger]

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-19-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 
  Distro: PeppermintOS 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Acer product: Aspire TC-780 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: Aspire TC-780 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: R01-A1 
  date: 06/22/2016 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 charge: 35% status: Discharging 
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 
  L2 cache: 6 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21599 
  Speed: 1677 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1677 2: 1657 3: 1607 
  4: 1656 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Turks PRO [Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550] driver: radeon v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-19-686-pae LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-19-686-pae 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus ID: 1-10:6 
  Report: ID: hci0 state: up running bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 address: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.3 TiB used: 4.27 GiB (0.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT275MX300SSD4 size: 256.17 GiB temp: 39 C 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB temp: 34 C 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 231 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 11.75 GiB used: 180.1 MiB (1.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 45.5 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 196 Uptime: 41m Memory: 23.5 GiB used: 2.19 GiB (9.3%) Init: systemd 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1608 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.01

Edit by Admins to correct formatting for legibility.

[Jay Swenberger]

I'm installing this in the same partition, over the previous Pep 10 install, that worked fine for a number of years, until a week ago. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Hi Jay, welcome to Planet Peppermint.

Several points, that need addressing.

1. Peppermint 10 reached End Of Life (EOL) in April 2023.

2. Minor point you are using 32bit on a 64bit computer:
   5.10.0-19-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler:

3. There is no swap partition or swapfile:
   Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.

4. It appears you are attempting to install in Legacy mode to a GPT and UEFI partition. As there is no /boot/efi

This is my partition scheme from my daily driver, I utilise a 4GB swapfile as a precaution, even though I have 16GB of RAM in this machine. Also I have installed in UEFI and SecureBoot.

Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 409.02 GiB used: 64.36 GiB (15.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 300.4 MiB used: 5 MiB (1.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1

For best results with the specs of this computer, is to wipe the disk, format it GPT partition tables, then with the Gparted tool, create a 300MB /boot/efi 32FAT partition, and a 225GB / partition, then click the tick symbol to finalise scheme. Before exiting this tool click on "Manage Flag" and click on boot and esp from this drop-down menu.

Guide how to use Gpated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0Co9TGUEQ

Guide how to install Peppermint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW7EL-LrMAw yes it is Devuan, but the installer works in the same way for both OS's.

Our wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepwiki/wiki%20home%20page/ covers most issues and useful how to guides.

[Jay Swenberger]

Cavy,
Thanks for the suggestions. I believe most of them were incorporated in the installation I was able to complete....finally! As you noted, I had initially downloaded the 32bit version. I downloaded the correct version and the install went smoothly! I had to reformat the m2 sda and SSD sdb so I lost all my data, but that happens...

I've partitioned and formatted sdb into a single drive that I intend to use for my data, as soon as I remember how to do that. I've got the drive mounted, via fstab, so I'm nearly there.

Here's the updated info....am I on the right track?

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-19-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 
  Distro: PeppermintOS 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Acer product: Aspire TC-780 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: Aspire TC-780 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: R01-A1 
  date: 06/22/2016 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M570 charge: 35% status: Discharging 
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 
  L2 cache: 6 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21599 
  Speed: 1093 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1093 2: 1040 3: 1012 
  4: 1043 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Turks PRO [Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550] driver: radeon v: kernel 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-19-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-19-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus ID: 1-10:8 
  Report: ID: hci0 state: up running bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 address: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.07 TiB used: 5.78 GiB (0.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT275MX300SSD4 size: 256.17 GiB temp: 47 C 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB temp: 38 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 242.14 GiB used: 5.78 GiB (2.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 5 MiB (1.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 46.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 220 Uptime: 33m Memory: 23.32 GiB used: 1.54 GiB (6.6%) Init: systemd 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1823 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.01 

[alynur]

Hi Jay Swenberger, here's an old symlink cheat sheet I was aided with way back in my Pep 6 days. I still refer to it when I need to jar my memory. Hope it helps.
Ps: credit AndyinMokum for the cheat sheet

[Jay Swenberger]

Thanks for the cheat sheet. I dive into Linux so infrequently that I need to relearn the basics each time. Next time...Pep12!