Hi again. I wrote fail word: "It said Root is placed so far away" "It said BOOT is placed so far away"
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 12:36, Gunnar Gervin <dofee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all. > In bottom of this email is the Boot Repair Report in /etc/fstab. > > Description of happenings when I tried to install LMDE4 after I had Debian > i386 32bit Buster (only) on my old Macbook from 2007: > 1. Burned an ISO image of lmde4 4.19 (4,8GB) on a dvd. > 2. Pressed option key & pressed Power on button, dvd image came up, > pressed it. > 3. At the end of the installation process, I was told to put Root in a > partition of minimum 30GB. > I pressed on Boot Repair, it was a program in Cinnamon. The Boot repair > claimed that the Boot system was placed far from the start of the sda > (harddisk); that the boot installer might not see it. It said that if > it wouldn't mount hda it might not know where to mount it. > I opened "Disks", it looked like Gnome Disk Utility when I opened it. > Opened "Modify Flags" in "Disks", hatched "Boot" and "esp" on sda. > Tried mount hda2 (it suggested mnt/hda2). (Should I've used Default > instead? > But it seemed not to give the correct option). > Made a partition of 30GB at start (left side), called hda1, hatched Boot & > Esp. > Looked for "Root" in Flags. Saw Bios-grub option in Flags but it > disappeared, never saw it again. Tried find help in Linux Mint but their > communication system had become more difficult, or the machine couldn't > cope in "live" mode only, I was too tired, &/or it was a typo in the > "Nickserv" instruction they gave me. > Sent a help email to Boot Repair email, but no answer yet. Please help. > Like I said before, this culture of tech is mostly internal; basic > knowledge, talent, or telepathy seem required, as well as dedication, > energy & time in abundance. > BR, > geg. > PS > to boot.repair > At the end of the partitioning (, after I did my best -whatever that is- > to mount > sda1 in Gnome Disk Utility), I couldn't see any way to e.g. Flag Root > (hint- hint) in Gparted, or partition Root to anything close to the > Installing program's satisfaction. > Attached is the Boot Repair program's report of what's wrong. It said Root > is placed so far away from the start of sda(hdd) that the Installer may not > see it(?). > I give up; I'm in way over my head. > Best regards, > > # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM > > overlay / overlay rw 0 0 > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 EXT2 nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 > > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 EXT2 > nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,noauto,x-udisks-auth 0 0 > > /dev/sda2 none swap sw,x-udisks-auth,noauto 0 0 >
