Can't boot after install
Install looks very fine. And does not show errors. But I can't boot into the OS afterwards. My BIOS can't find an EFI for BlendOS. I have several partitions and the other (with other OSes) works fine. But I would like to try BlendOS.
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For me to get it to boot, I made a second efi system partition, installed BlendOS, deleted that second partition, then somehow an option appeared for it under grub, I honestly have no idea how I did it but if you keep tinkering around and reinstalling it over itself enough times doing different stuff with the boot partitions, eventually it will work. First time I installed it it messed up my boot partition even though I selected don’t format! I had to reinstall windows and rebuild the openSUSE boot partition. It’s very unpredictable but if you back things up and mess around enough you’ll figure it out
Thanks. This is what is on the boot-partition. It seems like a full install, except that there is nothing in most folders. And boot is empty except for folders (i.e. only empty folders).
du -h -d1 -c
8.0K ./boot
4.0K ./dev
6.4M ./etc
20K ./home
4.0K ./mnt
4.0K ./opt
4.0K ./proc
32K ./root
4.0K ./run
12K ./srv
4.0K ./sys
4.0K ./tmp
31M ./usr
16K ./var
38M .
38M total
find boot/
boot/
boot/efi
I recently installed a new SSD. So there is nothing important yet. If something breaks, I might have to reinstall something else, which would take time. But nothing worse than that.
Well, I'll try something. But I am not quite sure what. I'll start by reinstall. 😉
Reinstall didn't work.
Reinstall where I ran grub-install afterwards didn't work. 😦
is your disk MBR or GPT
do you have BIOS or UEFI
GPT and UEFI
It's a 4 TB SSD so MBR is not an option.
Hmm weird
Yes. And just to be clear. the grub-install will make it boot. Or rather, start to boot. But it stops in the GRUB menu. Whereas there is nothing to boot from without the grub-install.
Or well, not menu, but the grub starts up saying something I don't remember. And ask for input. And I am not familar with grub. So I can't do anything from there.
But this is the output of the install process:
so manually installing grub and regenning the config didn't work
No. But I might have done it wrong.
sudo grub-install didn't work. It couldn't find the grub folder.
So I mounted the EFI-drive which didn't help. But then I could give it the --boot-directory= flag.
I am not sure what you mean about regenning the config.
The grub-install did write BOTH in the /boot/EFI and /boot/grub.
But the /boot/grub/grubenv might look wrong?
GRUB Environment Block
WARNING: Do not edit this file by tools other than grub-editenv!!!
##################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
I.e. nothing except for comments
And there is no grub.cfg. I don't know for certain if there should be. But there is one in the FS I am using now (Mint).
maybe the
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
there should be a grub.cfg somewhere
that specifies boot options too
if it's missing you can generate it
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfgHow is that generated? Because it seems grub-install didn't make it.
Thanks. I'll try that! 🙂
if that fails or doesn't work grub.cfg may need to be in another folder
just change the path after the -o
Thanks a lot. Now I can boot!
Actually I needed to chroot first. And to do that I have to bind stuff. I don't remember exactly how. But poking around I found that the main partition had a grub folder with a grub.cfg. So I copied that together with the kernels, - and what would you know. Now it boots into Blend.
So again. Thanks. 🙂
Hmm. But it didn't work right away. But after another reinstall, - I am not up and running. Thanks for the help.
now up and running
I pretty much have the same problem, tried installing blendos 3 times and the grub just never works
And the grub-install command is not found
Working on this for about 4 hours. I can't get it to show up on grub
can anyone clarify what steps they needed to do in order to make the blendOS install bootable?
do i have to run
arch-chroot /mnt in order to do that?The installer does that
Yeah
hm
i see
ig it worked
the steps i took:
1. Do the standard Jade Installation (but do not reboot immediately)
2. Open terminal and run
arch-chroot /mnt
3. followed by grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB
4. RebootThank you so much for this! This seems the only viable option for now 😅
yeaa
im actually glad that it was arch-based, because i've grown familiar to all its pitfalls..
btw, you can change the bootloader id to
ARCHLINUX if you wantyeah imma borrow this for the dualboot guide
i think that's what appears in the bios
even though it is practically taken from the archwiki
yea
or
BLENDOSor whatever you want tbh hehe
i got this>
grub-install: error: failed to make directory: '/boot/grub'.
read-only filesystem
How can i solve this. i want to use Blend Os, i have it in its own solid drive
but i can´t boot on it
Did you follow every step exactly like @Fιr wrote?
Important is to not reboot after installation. After reboot it's not possible atm
i did it just as it is write here. and return me this:
grub-install: error: failed to make directory: '/boot/grub'.
maybe you didn't mount
/boot?
i think i didn't add that step to check if the mounts are still mounted after jade installs blendos
cuz when i did the standard jade install and checked the terminal for mountpoints, it still had the /boot mountedso i have to run arch-chroot /mnt
and then run arch-chroot /boot ?
excuse me if I'm asking silly questions, I'm not an expert on this.
i just follow your steps.
no need to chroot, mount your main partition and edit
/mnt/etc/fstab to add the boot partitionMy issue is grub-install: error: failed yo get canonical path of /boot/efi/
i think you have similar issues with the previous guy
@AR 🇵🇸 try following what they said
There is already root partition
I mount boot partition
After, add my boot partition
Nano /mnt/etc/fstab
UUID- ....... / Ext4
UUID-........ /boot/ vfat
Still not working
Also, The boot partition was flagged as msftdata how the hell?
Because the installer didn’t set the flags right you can fix that in gparted
makes me wonder what's causing this in the first place
since
blend-inst does install GRUB correctly for most people (just runs grub-install with similar options, depending on whether it's a BIOS or UEFI system)yea...
i thought it was gonna be automatic
but when i installed it for the first time without thos knowledge, i was surprised it didn't appear as an EFI entry on my BIOS
yeah, just waiting to find someone who experiences the same thing to be able to debug this
Any updates?
struggling too with this exact reason the installer does everything apart from updating grub to recongize my other os's
i echo the same problem on july 21st of this year. should i try a different iso from the blend os website?
do you reckon i'd have more luck witht he gnome edition
i did have more luck, all sorted
Just use refind
@sy
@Chop
sudo system install refind
sudo refind-install
Then just change your primary boot to refind and it will show blend and other os
Thank you
@█Morgan█Weedman█
rEFInd has set to the new bootloader cool. see ya grub
solved?
ill check haven't rebooted yet
yeah it works XD
@chashmish_Ani i wouldn't of run that command on a live install as its still reading from the usb disk. Not sure why it wouldn't work but i'd wait till im in the os to do fix it.
selecting the correct drive from the bios/uefi would of got you into the os. It was just a pain to reconginze my other os's on the system.
Grub