Have you looked at the bios boot menu ? There may be something wrong there and you need to have it boot to usb drive Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 1, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Clarence Fender wrote:Yes, this is an install from a USB. If it's supposed to install GRUB by itself, it's doing a very poor job :)
On 2/02/23 08:29, Clarence Fender wrote:
Yes, this is an install from a USB. If it's supposed to install GRUB
by itself, it's doing a very poor job :) I have a 500M EFI
partition. It fails.
sda - all primary partitions
1M (appears by itself, no format)
500M EFI
50G ext4 /
16M swap
Yes, this is an install from a USB. If it's supposed to install GRUB by
itself, it's doing a very poor job :) I have a 500M EFI partition. It
fails.
sda - all primary partitions
1M (appears by itself, no format)
500M EFI
50G ext4 /
16M swap
remainder of space ext4 but not mounted
Thanks.
Yes, I tried an EFI partition on sda. Same error.
Trying again, I used gparted, installed partitions. Did install - made the
partition EFI, which left no option for type or mount. Failed. Tried FAT32,
mounted /BOOT/EFI, install told me there was no EFI partition and it
wouldn't boot.
Thanks
On
Hi,
Have you tried to reinstall xubuntu from a usb/dvd?
It should set up the grub automatically.
If your data is in a different partition, there should be no risk of
deleting it (but always do a back up first).
I have tried to repair a corrupted grub manually, but spent hours and did
not succeed.
Maybe, you should create an EFI partition. Typing "df", do you get
something like
/dev/nvme0n1p1 973952 6184 967768 1% /boot/efi
(or perhaps /dev/sda1)?
Good luck, François
On 2/1/23 19:09, Clarence Fender wrote:
Xubuntu 22.04 to laptop, USB boot (~2yrs old, linux-specific)
Xubuntu 22.04 to laptop, USB boot (~2yrs old, linux-specific)
"something else" disk part
sda is where everything goes except HOME
sdb/nvm_etc is /HOME
Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda
Executing `grub-install /dev/sda` failed
fatal error
--> Can't fix this, no matter what I do.
Spent a long
