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| − | + | The paradigm for booting systems changed in 2005 or so. The venerable BIOS increasingly gets replaced by UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) that provides more support to basic functionalities (including advanced graphical/mouse support), which, however, comes at the price of increased complexity for linux systems. We are now back in the era where the boot loading sequence is one of the serious challenges of setting up a linux system (LILO had greatly simplified it and by the time of Grub, it was fairly automatic already). | |
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| − | + | My [[Caliz (computer)|Dell XPS]] computer comes with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express nvme] hard drive, which are a headache for old-style (so-called ''legacy'') booting. | |
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| − | Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again. | + | I installed [[kubuntu]] by booting from USB in UEFI mode. You achieve this by pressing F2 when the DELL logo shows up and in ''Boot Option'', select UEFI. Secure mode will surely have to be disabled. The default installer fails. My solution is to run [https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ boot-repair] after the installer crashes (you need internet connection) |
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| + | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair | ||
| + | sudo apt-get update | ||
| + | sudo apt-get [[Media:Example.ogg]]install -y boot-repair && boot-repair | ||
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| + | Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of | ||
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| + | Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again. | ||
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| + | Generating the report (pasted in http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Zt2b7KMXdS/ in my case) and looking at the error, it shows where the software is looking for sources.list. It is then just a matter of locating it (locate) and symlink, then run again. In my case, that required: | ||
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| + | sudo ln -s /etc/apt/sources.list /target/etc/apt | ||
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| + | Following the steps boot-repairs advises you to take successfully installs the boot-loader. | ||
| + | {{wl-publish: 2019-01-03 21:06:26 +0000 | Laussy }} | ||
The paradigm for booting systems changed in 2005 or so. The venerable BIOS increasingly gets replaced by UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) that provides more support to basic functionalities (including advanced graphical/mouse support), which, however, comes at the price of increased complexity for linux systems. We are now back in the era where the boot loading sequence is one of the serious challenges of setting up a linux system (LILO had greatly simplified it and by the time of Grub, it was fairly automatic already).
My Dell XPS computer comes with nvme hard drive, which are a headache for old-style (so-called legacy) booting.
I installed kubuntu by booting from USB in UEFI mode. You achieve this by pressing F2 when the DELL logo shows up and in Boot Option, select UEFI. Secure mode will surely have to be disabled. The default installer fails. My solution is to run boot-repair after the installer crashes (you need internet connection)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get Media:Example.ogginstall -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Boot-repair comes with problems of its own, along the lines of
Please enable a repository containing the [...] packages in the software sources of ... Then try again.
Generating the report (pasted in http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Zt2b7KMXdS/ in my case) and looking at the error, it shows where the software is looking for sources.list. It is then just a matter of locating it (locate) and symlink, then run again. In my case, that required:
sudo ln -s /etc/apt/sources.list /target/etc/apt
Following the steps boot-repairs advises you to take successfully installs the boot-loader.