Frustrated at installation.
Alright.
Firstly, I know I shouldn't use an hdd but I don't have an ssd to use and I'm just trying to install it.
What happens:
Goes smoothly until a specific point (can't tell, goes by too quickly), then spits out a code 1 error.
First time it happened it was: The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted.
The command 'ostree admin instutil set-kargs rhgb quiet root=UUID=43b61cfc-94b5-48db-9c7e-f4cf0bd0a50b rw' exited with the
code 1.
Now it's: The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error and installation will be aborted.
The command 'ostree admin instutil set-kargs rhgb quiet root=UUID=3a24ebd5-294a-41a7-8845-b83a6b5eb62f rw' exited with
the code 1.
Same error, different uuid.
What I'm doing beforehand:
Making sure drive is completely wiped using terminal
Clicking custom partitions using that empty drive
Making an EFI Boot partition at 512MiB
Making a root (/) partition using the rest of the storage space.
What I've done:
Follow documentation
During install, I used Standard File Partition as the type for mount points
Wipe drive clean using wipefs -a /dev/sda
Made sure the boot was /boot/efi using EFI System Partition
Made sure root partition was using ext4
Ensuring enough boot partition space is given
What's going on?
Please help, I'm struggling and about to snap the iso usb in half!
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Wait are you hand partitioning with ext4?
Was. Then switched to btrfs when what's his name sent the docs snippet
And now it's still happening!
Are you still hand partitioning? We use btrfs sub volumes so just specifying a root btrfs won't work.
If you're trying to dual boot there's a guide for that in particular. First the install guide
https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/
Now the dualboot guide
https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/?h=dual+boot
Essentially by hand partioning you're giving it one partition when it needs to setup btrfs to have around 8 internal ones. So it naturally wouldn't work. It doesn't know where to put what it needs to do.
I was partitioning by hand because I want to make sure that it installs everything onto the drive I want it to use and there's no potential bleed into my windows ssd
But hand partionining should be avoided unless you absolutely know what you're doing.
The second link should cover that.
You're using a second drive right?
Click the separate drive tab. A lot of people, myself included, don't realize it's a tab
But the issue is the hand partionining isn't partioning it right so it's basically unable to install
I read the separate drive part but the problem is it's not even installing to begin with
Since you gave it a btrfs partition, but none of the sub volumes it needs. That's why it's to be avoided.
Well yes if you're hand partionining that'd be why. Read and follow the guide 1:1
So what, just click automatic?
Just follow the guide 1:1 so yes it should be using automatic on the secondary drive. So look over the install guide then use that while looking at the separate drive install.
Then there's some post setup to get grub to see windows.
But yeah in most linux you can specify root and it's happy, but since we're using a setup of sub volumes to mount writable areas like /etc and /usr/share and /home in var it needs to be handled by the installer unless you really know what you're doing.
The bottom should have a video guide to help
Manual partionining is of course possible I think?
I definitely would not recommend it in the slightest.
That'd be why your install is failing, though. The partitions aren't what it needs because of the sub volume requirements.
But the reason for the sub volumes is it's how bazzite does it's immutability and all that fun stuff.
Great now I gotta rewipe the drive
Otherwise you'd have a totally isolated unwritable root. Which isn't good because that's total immutability and you don't want that.
Well the installer can let you do that
The installer has a "Free up space" option for the target drive. That'll let you wipe it at install time. Just be sure you don't select the windows drive.
Sorry I didn't see this sooner or I could've helped explain some of it.
Had I known you were hand partionining that would've been the red flag right there.
If you want to be extra safe you can disconnect the windows drive during your install.
Won't stop the PC from booting the bazzite installer
Then you can happily let it do a full automatic install to that drive without worry, then do the post steps in the dual boot guide once you replugin the windows drive. Those should be done in bazzite.
Bruhhhh, I click automatic and it's saying the drive only has 1.05 MiB free which is bull because I've wiped it already in terminal and gone through the disk space reclaiming
I'd have to actually see your process to help. Did you click the free up space option?
Otherwise it'll just try to use free space.
Alright well at least I know it's working since I get the device path bug. Just gotta restart and try again
You should be getting some extra help in a tec.
Help that's not passing out.
I asked @皇家海星 to give a hand. Now then. I'm gonna go flop and die for the night.
Selecting drive, leaving on automatic, space freed up, hopefully this fixes it
alright what are we doing here
They were trying to hand partition which was giving them the problems. I'm walking them through using the installer automatic on the other drive. They were worried about touching the windows one. That's the tldr; Dualboot separate drive.
Gnight
I made sure to select the right drive thankfully
good night mate
ok where are you currently in, the installer?
Yeah
I've selected the right drive, I've clicked automatic, I'm hoping this works
I'm brand new to Linux and wasn't sure what the hell I was doing
yea definitely do automatic especially if new
now I'm basically gonna give you advise based on https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/troubleshoot_guide/, since I'm not very experienced in this either
I thought that there was some extra stuff you had to do with that one win10 update that apparently borked dual booting?
Like specify specific things to say hey Windows this is safe and okay kthxbai
if you are both on separate drives and have bazzite as the 1st boot option, there shouldn't be any problems
Bazzite is second (twas the main plan anyway since I'm just experimenting rn with everything)
I don't mind having to f8 to get into bazzite
ideally you would want bazzite as the 1st boot option, to avoid having to deal with windows boot manager
on the boot menu you can select bazzite or windows each boot, so its still convenient to get to your windows install
This pc has had windows this whole time, I'm only just now adding bazzite
If you are wanting to try Linux for the first time and have two separate hard drives, I would just unplug the Windows drive, install Linux as a stand alone OS, then when you want to go back just power off, unplug the linux drive, and plug in the windows one
Then you can use the installer to safely delete every partition on the second drive, before reclaiming it for Linux
They're doing that right now basically. Don't worry I'm in bed just turning my phone off
Let's just see if this install works fine first
Then go from there.
SOLVED
Automatic install was all that was needed.
congrats
Now what?
enroll mok, the password is "universalblue" when it prompts you
fuck wires crossed 1 sec
wrong password
Did it change from universalblue?
I swear I'll sleep soon
it didn't I am just up late
fixed it
View key or continue?
i think view key?
This is basically setting up secure boot to accept bazzite as secure
Gotcha
Well it's all good now I think?
it should prompt you for a password
oh?
I typed the password in
nice, now just wait
it should reboot once
Time to wait like fifty years since it's on an hdd
(I know, I know, a sin, but I'm broke lmao)
yea looking good
Sweet it's preparing system
I'll just have to make sure to spam f8 whenever I load into my pc so I can get to Windows now
no need to do that
Lol or setup grub
Yes I'm still up I'm dumb but at least in bed
there should be a boot menu where you pick between bazzite:0, bazzite:1, bios, and windows
Yeah, I didn't touch anything and it went to bazzite:0
yea, if you down arrow it will give you some more time
They'll need to set bazzite to the main boot disk and update grub.
if you are in bazzite, you can add boot to windows as a non-steam game entry in steam
They haven't done that yet
Isn't the command:
ujust configure-grub unhide
But they can mash too. Their keyboards suffering after all
it will auto unhide if windows is detected
They'd need to follow the regeneration steps and set grub to main first
Interesting. I did not know that.
Bazzite
Bazzite to main
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