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Title: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: tom on 2023/01/18, 04:03:44

Hello, I am trying to install siduction-22.1-Masters_of_War-kde-amd64-202212291659.iso (https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/siduction/iso/Masters_of_War/kde/siduction-22.1-Masters_of_War-kde-amd64-202212291659.iso) from a USB drive. I am able to boot other live distros and installers fine but not Siduction.  One computer seemingly refused to boot Siduction where as another does give me a grub prompt.

Is it not live? How do I get to Calamares from grub? or is this not the expected experience?

Thank you

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: devil on 2023/01/18, 06:06:58

Hi, 

how did you get the ISO onto the USB drive?

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: tom on 2023/01/18, 06:12:58

The same as with the other distros,

sudo dd if=./siduction-22.1-Masters_of_War-kde-amd64-202212291659.iso of=/
dev/sda1 status=progress
 

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: tom on 2023/01/18, 06:31:07

I thought it was the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 (amd) - Im not up on the latest proprietary boot this or that. So I also tried on my ol HP EliteBook.

I put Kubuntu on my sons IdeaPad so I can verify it will run a few of his games. I suppose now I can install Siduction without the USB drive but Id rather figure it out for when I install on other machines.

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: devil on 2023/01/18, 10:26:08

I was just trying to find out if maybe you used a tool like UNetbootin, which only works with some distributions but not all. To get any further on this, can we have the output of

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inxi -F -z

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: towo on 2023/01/18, 10:41:58

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sudo dd if=./siduction-22.1-Masters_of_War-kde-amd64-202212291659.iso of=/dev/sda1 status=progress
Is definitive wrong, and that for all distros out there.
You have to write the ISO to the device, not a partition!

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: devil on 2023/01/18, 11:57:56

Ups, I didn't even see that. /sda instead of /sda1

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: tom on 2023/01/18, 20:32:20

gesh, I meant /dev/sda but in my term history I do see at least one time I had /dev/sda1 I also saw the drives partitions after writing the image ... anyway, sorry about that and thanks for not making too much fun.

re-imaged the drive to make sure and I still can not boot off of it from the new Lenovo. Its my computer and not the image.

Pointers on the new laptops? Works with UFI, but turn off secure boot?

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: towo on 2023/01/18, 20:58:51

We do not support secureboot, so you it must turn off.

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: eriefisher on 2023/01/18, 23:50:59

Are you sure your writing to the usb drive? /dev/sda would likely be the hard drive. It's more likely it should be /dev/sdb or such for a usb/removable drive. fdisk -l will give you the answer.

Title: Re: install from usb drive - only grub promt
Post by: tom on 2023/01/19, 08:58:02

Thanks for the help. 

I finally tried a different thumb drive (it was an old junker) it boots just fine - now getting the touch-pad to work...

(the hd is /dev/nvme0n1)

Title: Touchpad on Lenovo Ideapad
Post by: mdmarmer on 2023/01/21, 16:08:35

My Lenovo Ideapad 3 -- touchpad working with boot parameter pci=nocrs