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Regolith 1.6 ISO not bootable in MBP 2015 #602

Open pietryszak opened 3 years ago

pietryszak commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I have a problem with the installation of a 1.6 version of Regolith. I try to use 1.6 bios, UEFI, and hirsute version, and is not visible in a boot, to choose pendrive. Pendrive was created in dd method, balenaEtcher, unetbootin, and standard creator from ubuntu. Nothing works. After that I download 1.4, use a pendrive creator from Ubuntu and everything work fine. Pendrive is bootable, system install and work fine.

Any ideas how to create proper version on 1.6 ? Macbook Pro 13" 2015

kgilmer commented 3 years ago

Hmm, that's odd. Unfortunately I don't have a MBP to test with. Another approach to installing would be to install Ubuntu and then Regolith via the PPA as described on the website.

From there if you wanted you could pair down Ubuntu to be more like the Regolith ISO (untested):

sudo apt install lightdm  # remove gdm3
sudo apt remove ubuntu-session gnome-shell
sudo apt autoremove

However I would not do this pairing down unless you've got a solid understanding of debian packaging and general linux troubleshooting.

kgilmer commented 3 years ago

Also 1.4 should upgrade to 1.6 by itself. That may be the easiest approach. After the 1.4 version is installed, apt should already be configured with the 1.6 PPA (launchpad.net/regolith-linux/release) and sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade should pull down the 1.6 packages.