ewangi
commented
4 months ago Well don't I feel foolish. All I needed to do was boot the installer medium in legacy mode. Closing issue.
Closed ewangi closed 4 months ago
ewangi
commented
4 months ago Well don't I feel foolish. All I needed to do was boot the installer medium in legacy mode. Closing issue.
While attempting to install the MATE beta into a pre-existing BIOS/MBR-partitioned device (selecting "Something else" on the install partitioner and then selecting sdb1 for root, sdb2 for home, and sdb6 for swap), the installer carried on as normal but then failed with the error "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sdb (as superuser). Executing grub-install /dev/sdb failed. This is a fatal error).
I father-son my Mint installations, so the partitions I was attempting to use for Wilma were those previously used for Una. I am accustomed to installing the new beta in the older partitions on this device and have done this for several major Mint releases with no issues. It has never failed before.
There were two EFI-based warnings issued when I has selected the install partitions and selected "Install Now". In previous installations, these messages were ignored due to it being a BIOS/MBR setup and everything installed ok.
I attempted to change the grub target to /dev/sda but that failed too.
GRUBs currently exist on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, confirmed by running:
`sudo fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | egrep "Disk /|/dev/" | sed "s#^/dev/#Part /dev/#" | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/://' | xargs -n1 -IX sudo sh -c "hexdump -v -s 0x80 -n 2 -e '2/1 \"%x\" \"\\n\"' X | xargs -n1 -IY sh -c \"case \"Y\" in '48b4') echo X: GRUB 2 v1.96 ;; 'aa75' | '5272') echo X: GRUB Legacy ;; '7c3c') echo X: GRUB 2 v1.97 oder v1.98 ;; '020') echo X: GRUB 2 v1.99 ;; *) echo X: NO GRUB Y ;; esac\""