Unable to install on newer HP laptop. (MX23B2 was installed - using 100% of the 500gb nvme, no LUKS or anything special.)
Downloaded KDE RC2
Created a liveUSB using Etcher, Booted, Clicked the Installer
Select Type of partition came up on USB, Clicked on Regular Install using entire dick and changed to nvme
Clicked Next, and Yes,
Process started, looked to get approx 9% in and then
Failed to Prepare required Partitions
Did an update, tried again, same results.
after attempts, old nvme main partition is still there, but boot partition is gone and so is the LiveUSB.
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-10-amd64 [6.1.37-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23_KDE_RC2_x64 Libretto
July 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP ENVY x360 2-in-1 Laptop 15-ew0xxx
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8A29 v: 22.13 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.20
date: 04/12/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 50.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.1/51.0 Wh (98.3%) volts: 12.8 min: 11.6
model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: discharging
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:406E.0001-battery model: ELAN2513:00 04F3:406E serial: N/A charge: N/A
status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1255U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake level: v3
note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 4
microcode: 0x42A
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 mt: 2 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 928 KiB
desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 6.5 MiB desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2287 high: 2600 min/max: 400/4700:3500 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 2600 2: 2600 3: 2600 4: 2600 5: 2600 6: 2600 7: 2600 8: 2600
9: 2600 10: 846 11: 603 12: 2600 bogomips: 62668
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,
DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a8 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0xa08b built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-10-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:2 chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 505.58 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: KIOXIA model: N/A size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HP01AN00
temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra USB 3.0 size: 28.64 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.34 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2430 libs: 1338 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala pm: rpm pkgs: 0
pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
Processes: 299 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 19 Memory: 15.34 GiB used: 1.76 GiB (11.5%) Init: SysVinit
v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12 Client: shell wrapper
v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Edit: Created the liveUSB again, but with MX LIveUSB maker, booted this time nvme was in the selected target, chose entire disk and installed perfectly.
Going to try the entire process once more, exactly as it was the first time.
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Edit 2: Reproducible. Created the LiveUSB using Etcher, booted, again the installer was pointed to the USB,changed it to nvme, said to use the entire disk, 9% everything failed with the message
Failed to Prepare required Partitions
This time, the usb was not affected, but the nvme boot is destroyed again. Tried it one more time, with out a reboot and again failed at 9%
Looks like LiveUSB written with Etcher and the install fails. (I pretty much exclusively use Etcher, so all Beta iso's worked, and MX17, 18, 19 and 21 all worked with it. )
