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Then it's something that it can't detect the drive. You can change Ahci back to previous one in Bios and try..


Well what can it be? I used gpt and the installation worked normally, then I rebooted after finished installation like normally. After that it showed the gnub munu again for ...

Huckleberry wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:37 am And also no Grub menu, right?

Nothing, the SSD not getting detected after reboot with Boot mode "UEFI"

Huckleberry wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:33 am How does it look on Gparted on live session? (You can also take a screenshot using the default utility)

/dev/sda1 - ESP fat32 SIZE: 256MiB
/dev/sda2 - primary ext4 SIZE: 116.96GiB
/dev/sda3 - primary linux-swap SIZE 2GiB

The flags part is empty...

on reboot the SSD is not showing up under EFI ? You mean, it doesn't boot or black screen?


it doesn't boot over the SSD after installation was successfully and it rebooted...
It doesn't detect the SSD with UEFI on...<.<

partitions are the following after install:

/dev/sda1 - ESP fat32 SIZE ...

Yes, but you must either choose "Auto-install using entire disk" or partition during installation (Modify Partitions)..
The first one is easy and will do all what's required..

https://www.dedoimedo.com/images/computers-years/2019-2/mx-19-install-partitions-custom-selection.jpg


Hmm the ...

So I did the gpt part in Gparted, now I can run installation normally nothing else to do?

Posting QSI again after installation...

You only start it from the "Menu".

Once it's started, it gives the summary of your system and nothing needed to copy (automatic). Just come here and right-click "paste" :)

ye, found it
[code]
System: Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT ...

You can try and use MX on live-session for almost everything. If you can start live session and post QSI (as in my signature below) it's possible to help more.

You can also use Gparted on MX live session.

Shortly:

Changing to AHCI in Bios mode is recommended for SSDs to work better.

If it's ...

If you don't plan to hibernate, automatic installation using the entire disk is the best option. Otherwise it depends: if you want an encrypted installation you'll need a separate unencrypted /boot partition. If you want a separate partition for /home you'll have to create that. If you plan to ...

Hallo,
i want to install MX Linux and test it for a longer period of time. My question is now, what the "most" optimized partioning for my 128GB SSD?

The device is a Lenovo Notebook G50-45.
-Ram = 8 GB

Thanks for your kind answers!