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Zuul wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:59 am

Please post quick system info, thank you.

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System:    Host: zen Kernel: 4.19.0-5-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_386 Continuum May 26  2019 

bpr323 wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:52 am You know what the problem is? Most users install mx19b3 on a VM - just to try it out. I guess very few ppl would risk installing a beta on their "main" PC/Laptop.
I've had a few glitches installing 19 b2.1 on 2 bare-metal Thinkpads, 1 NUC and 1 Latitude - both frech installs and snapshot cloning.
Lenovo's BIOS is the worst - totally geared towards Windows UFI and "scure boot".
With 19b2.1 I managed to ignore the "incorrect settings in minstall.conf" error and finish the install.
Now with 19b3 the installation process is completely broken. Even with "custom install" (after manually creating xt4 and fat32 partitions with Gparted) - I can only progress as far as Grub where it fails.
I'm a professional tester, I know this is a major bug Sev-1 which needs to be fixed urgently. Who cares about the transparency/color of the panel if the install doesn't work?
May I suggest the MX Devs grab a spare Lenovo and try to install on an empty NVMe - hope they get as frustrated as dozens of potential MX users this stupid bug is turning away from otherwise excellent distro!

dolphin_oracle wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:54 am

bpr323 wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:52 am You know what the problem is? Most users install mx19b3 on a VM - just to try it out. I guess very few ppl would risk installing a beta on their "main" PC/Laptop.
I've had a few glitches installing 19 b2.1 on 2 bare-metal Thinkpads, 1 NUC and 1 Latitude - both frech installs and snapshot cloning.
Lenovo's BIOS is the worst - totally geared towards Windows UFI and "scure boot".
With 19b2.1 I managed to ignore the "incorrect settings in minstall.conf" error and finish the install.
Now with 19b3 the installation process is completely broken. Even with "custom install" (after manually creating xt4 and fat32 partitions with Gparted) - I can only progress as far as Grub where it fails.
I'm a professional tester, I know this is a major bug Sev-1 which needs to be fixed urgently. Who cares about the transparency/color of the panel if the install doesn't work?
May I suggest the MX Devs grab a spare Lenovo and try to install on an empty NVMe - hope they get as frustrated as dozens of potential MX users this stupid bug is turning away from otherwise excellent distro!

have you posted the /var/log/minstall.log please for any failed installs.

the installer on b2.1 and b3 is pretty much the same as I recall.

Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:10 am We have tested on Lenovo machines. I had absolutely no trouble with the X1 Carbon, for instance, in fact it was probably the smoothest install alongside an existing Windows (10) I have ever had.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:55 am there are a few lenovos (my wife's yoga among them) that will not boot any linux I install to the drive. Being that the only one I have like that is my wife's yoga, I really can't go around messing with her secure key settings, but in that machine's case, it apparently will only boot a particular linux (I forget which one at the moment, its not one of the usuals, linpus lite maybe). And same thing on that machine, only a legacy USB boot will work, which is actually what she uses when doing videos, the live USB.