Installed LXQt Cooker Build 1899 to an external SSD - would not boot after installation when using ext4

[edwardp3]

OpenMandriva version: Cooker, Build # 1899, LXQt

Describe the bug: Installed .ISO (from a USB flash drive) to an external SSD, the installation did not indicate any errors, however, on the first boot, it displayed a grub rescue prompt with an indication that a file normal.mod could not be found (photo of display is attached). The SSD is a Samsung T7, 500GB.

Steps to reproduce: As above.

Observed behavior: As above.

Expected behavior: OpenMandriva should have successfully booted to the login manager.

Additional comment: The image on the USB flash drive successfully boots to a live desktop. Reported on OM Forum at https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/build-1899-not-booting-after-installation-to-external-ssd-grub-rescue-prompt/4907

I subsequently tried installing a different Linux distribution to the SSD, with success, that boots up perfectly.

Logs and screenshots if relevant

[omakuta]

This issue has been mentioned on OpenMandriva forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/build-1899-not-booting-after-installation-to-external-ssd-grub-rescue-prompt/4907/2

[benbullard79]

I better label this reply as opinion. I don't believe anyone involved with OM knows specifically how to do this.

For Problem Solving this: If someone or some other distro does know how to do this we need for you to find that out and tells us how they do it. Also try googling something like: "How to get a Linux operating system to boot from external ssd?" The results I get suggest this is not a problem at all unique to OpenMandriva.

I would like to see this issue resolved.

[edwardp3]

I was able to install this same build to a different external SSD, however, had issues.

The first session after installation was fine. Ran dnf to update the packages, rebooted. Second session was also fine.

Rebooted again, third and subsequent sessions would not display the LXQt panel. right-clicking the desktop gives an option to open a terminal window, which I did. Running lxqt-panel from there, caused the panel to display, but the terminal displayed:

qt.qpa plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
StatusNotifier: registration of service org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher queued, we can become primary after existing one deregisters
failed to claim ownership of Systray Manager

If I hit CTRL-C in the terminal, the LXQt panel disappears.

[edwardp3]

It looks like the LXQt panel not appearing, or appearing for a fractional second, then disappearing, may be related to the lxqt-powermanagement package. That displayed a notification that it couldn't find a battery (as this is not a laptop) and as soon as that notification appeared, that's when the panel disappeared. I removed only that package using rpm -e --nodeps lxqt-powermanagement (otherwise it wanted to remove all of LXQt) and rebooted. So far, the panel has successfully appeared at each login and reboot. I will continue to test.

[edwardp3]

When I reinstalled it using the btrfs file system, it installed perfectly to the external SSD. When installing with ext4, is when it has a problem finding grub.

[benbullard79]

I think we can close this as I believe user left OM in not happy state. If I am wrong please reopen this bug report.