[SOLVED] Install Issue

[aaronleishman]

I installed on my Asus laptop and it won't boot from my hard drive.... When I boot my laptop it boots to my BIOS blue screen. For the laptop to boot to my live usb stick I had to disable the Ueif and enable CSM... I'm completely lost on what I need to fix so it will boot from my laptop

I did more research and noticed my partitions I don't have a boot flag from what I can see.. I'm reading this correctly? If so how can I fix this?

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$sudo sfdisk -1

Gave me this:

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Model: MMC BGND3R (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.3GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  27.9GB  27.9GB  primary  ext4
 2      27.9GB  30.1GB  2147MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)

[dolphin_oracle]

is your laptop UEFI only or does it have a legacy boot option?

For my money, I usually disable all csm (compatiblity mode on some systems) options and go either UEFI only or Legacy/Bios Only.

its much less confusing...

[fehlix]

I installed on my Asus laptop and it won't boot from my hard drive.... When I boot my laptop it boots to my BIOS blue screen. For the laptop to boot to my live usb stick I had to disable the Ueif and enable CSM... I'm completely lost on what I need to fix so it will boot from my laptop

I did more research and noticed my partitions I don't have a boot flag from what I can see.. I'm reading this correctly? If so how can I fix this?

Some CSM/BIOS boot modes do ignore a potential Disk if a boot-flag is missing at the disk.
To fix: Open Gparted and mark the first ext4 partition, which you have used as the root-partition with a boot-flag.
Also, when you run the installer, you have to choose MBR of /dev/mmcblk0 as GRUB MBR target.

[aaronleishman]

To fix: Open Gparted and mark the first ext4 partition, which you have used as the root-partition with a boot-flag.
Also, when you run the installer, you have to choose MBR of /dev/mmcblk0 as GRUB MBR target.

Ok, I got the boot flag entered and went through the installation process and chose MBR on /dev/mmcblk0 but it still won't boot.

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Device         Boot    Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 *        2048 56813567 56811520 27.1G 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p2      56813568 61007871  4194304    2G 83 Linux

The reason why I choose CSM in the BIOS because my live USB stick won't boot unless it is set to CSM.

[JayM]

Have you looked at the wiki article on UEFI https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/uefi/ and the three links at the bottom of it?

Also, what program did you use to burn MX to your USB stick and in what operating system?

[aaronleishman]

JayM » Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:33 pm
Have you looked at the wiki article on UEFI https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/uefi/ and the three links at the bottom of it?

Yes I did. My Bios doesn't have a whole lot of options.
For it to boot from my USB flash drive I had too do the following:
Secure Boot: Disable
Fast Boot: Disable
CSM: Enable

Also, what program did you use to burn MX to your USB stick and in what operating system?

I used the program "Universal USB Installer" on Windows 10.

[JayM]

JayM » Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:33 pm
Have you looked at the wiki article on UEFI https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/uefi/ and the three links at the bottom of it?

Yes I did. My Bios doesn't have a whole lot of options.
For it to boot from my USB flash drive I had too do the following:
Secure Boot: Disable
Fast Boot: Disable
CSM: Enable

You want CSM disabled.

Also, what program did you use to burn MX to your USB stick and in what operating system?

I used the program "Universal USB Installer" on Windows 10.

That's probably why you can't boot the USB in UEFI mode. Download Rufus and use it as recommended in the MX manual's installation instructions.
https://rufus.ie/

Or another trick you can try: boot from your current USB stick and at the boot menu boot with the "toram" option, which I think is under the F4 menu. Then run MX Tools/MX Live USB Maker and slect the option to clone your current live system (in full-feature mode) to the same USB stick. Try booting from that and see if it comes up in UEFI mode.

[junoluna]

rufus has never failed me but can you tell me why universal usb installer may not work?

it is recommended by a lot of other distros

sorry if this is off track ... i thought i had something to add after installing on a friend's laptop but that was acer not asus

[asqwerth]

See the Notes #4 on this page: https://mxlinux.org/download-links/

"..If you want to create a USB on a Windows base, we suggest you use Rufus, which supports our bootloader."

I'm guessing Rufus is a pure image writer like the dd command, so that will definitely work. Remember the antiX/MX live system is more advanced than most other distros' live booting systems. Because of that, Windows-based USB writers that use some "tricks" in writing iso files to USB may not be compatible with our live system.

[JayM]

rufus has never failed me but can you tell me why universal usb installer may not work?

it is recommended by a lot of other distros

sorry if this is off track ... i thought i had something to add after installing on a friend's laptop but that was acer not asus

One, I'm unfamiliar with universal USB installer and I am familiar with rufus and know that it works, and two, rufus is one of the known few Windows-based USB-burning apps that's compatible with the antiX/MX live boot system and can make full-featured live USBs, and three, as the OP is having issues booting in UEFI mode and has used something other than the recommended method to burn the iso to his USB I suspect that unfamiliar USB burner is what's causing his booting/installing issues.