Get a load of parted errors upon installing, Asks whether to continue or abort the installation. Any ideas what could be causing three issue??
I used guided partitioning with separate home and swap partitions selected.
Get a load of parted errors upon installing, Asks whether to continue or abort the installation. Any ideas what could be causing three issue??
I used guided partitioning with separate home and swap partitions selected. Example error :
Command /usr/sbin/parted - - script /dev/sdd mklabel.gpt failed
Exit code 1
Yast2:
wait_for_device failed /dev/sdd2
To me, that suggests failing hardware.
Brand new drive, but yes that’s what I was thinking
Crystaldiskinfo shows health as good 100%.
I managed to create a GPT table under windows,which I couldn’t with gparted under fedora.
Whether that fixes the install errors, I’ll try to install again tomorrow and update the post accordingly.
Edit: same errors, wouldn’t have anything to do with secure boot being disabled?
Will have to try regular tumbleweed or even a different distro to see if I’m still getting errors. Not sure why I can create a GFT/mbr table and ext4/btrfs partitions on the drive without issue in Windows.
That should not be relevant.
If your target machine has a working bootloader on it somewhere, you can download linux and initrd from mirrors, place them where bootloader can find them, and initiate a NET install. This is my routine procedure for installation, downloading only what I need, and in latest available versions. Linuxrc provides options that can be used for some pre-configuration, such as network.
It doesn’t
If your installation target machine has an OM drive, try burning the NET installation .iso to a CD to install from.
OM drive??
- CD
- DVD
- Bluray
All these are Optical Media.
Ok, no optical drives anymore unfortunately.
Any linux programs similar to crystaldiskinfo as no optical drives??
In modern times like today, it is a waste of ressources to burn a CD/DVD. Simply dump the ISO to an USB pen drive.
I’ve already done that, running from the USB stick I get those errors mentioned above during install.
Most of the other parted messages are just messages to say that it couldn’t create a partition due to an error
CrystalDiskInfo - Crystal Dew World [en] doesn’t really say what it’s good for. How would you expect something like it to help?
Was recommended by a guy I know who does pc repairs for a living.
Ok, I can create a simple volume and exfat partition in windows without issue. And no issues copying to the drive. chkdsk shows no errors.
But as soon as I try to install slowroll I get the same errors.
I noticed it was trying to create an efi folder even though I have secure boot disabled
If you are using UEFI booting, then you need an EFI partition – even if secure-boot is disabled.
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