Grub installation crash

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 7:19pm

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id="Void Linux [GRUB]" --no-nvram /dev/sda2

That would be the terminal command to use Grub-Install to install grub onto the drive partition pictured in your screenshot above.

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 8:06pm

If I try that, I get this error.

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 8:09pm

What about

sudo apt install grub-efi

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 8:17pm

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 8:18pm

That message means that in LiveZorin, the source for installing is currently from the USB packages.
Are you able to connect to the Internet in Live Zorin?

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 8:19pm

Im connected

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 8:22pm

This may seem silly... But

sudo apt update

sudo apt install grub-efi

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 8:40pm

Already finished, i reboot?

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 10:12pm

I just found out that you can see the process

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 10:30pm

Sorry was called away for work.
Where does your installation stand at this time?

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 10:46pm

Crashed or what do you mean?

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 10:47pm

I think the problem is the path, since it installs it in dev / sda, but it shows me that only dev / sda1 and dev / sda2 exist

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 11:01pm

/dev/sda is the Drive.
/dev/sda1 and sda2 are partitions on the drive.

I take it from the above response that the installer still is crashing and installing the rest was a no-go?
Usually, if the installer crashes at Grub Install, you can just do the grub-repair after. I have never once seen grub-repair fail.

DonAjolote · July 21, 2021, 11:02pm

So there is no solution?

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 11:04pm

It could be something simple that will make us facepalm when we realize. But for the moment, I am stumped.

Aravisian · July 21, 2021, 11:20pm

Can you walk me through what procedure you took when you installed?
Did you choose "Something else" or "Install Zorin alongside" or "Erase disk and install..."?

DonAjolote · July 22, 2021, 12:34am

Erase Diks and Install.

This had already happened to me with Mxlinux and Debian. The problem is the grub since this model had an agreement with Windows or something like that and has the NVRAM blocked in read-only, but in Zorin I don't know how to remove it

Aravisian · July 22, 2021, 6:08am

You were typing as I was - we both were researching.
I also found this little gem:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/volcanoauthors/c7c9480dc78f1ba55d589d2125db4832

Install-Linux-on-Acer-Spin-1-SP111-32N.md

How to install Ubuntu Linux on an Acer Spin 1 SP111-32N

# BIOS Key
The first thing you encounter is how to get into the BIOS. Hold down the little blue Fn key, and press F2. If you do this as soon as you press the power button, then keep pressing F2 a lot, it gets into the BIOS reliably.

In the BIOS, you don’t need to change the Secure Boot settings (yet). Just remember that you have to hold down the little blue Fn key to change the boot order with F5 and F6.

The live USB should boot up just fine. Do not select “Install ubuntu” from the GRUB menu. Let the default option start up, “Try ubuntu without installing.”

# Live USB

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Which has some good step by step instructions, too.

DonAjolote's point about NVRAM is the much needed clue to the puzzle.

FrenchPress · July 22, 2021, 9:41am

Thanks for finding this.
Exactly what I have discovered:

The Acer Insyde H2O BIOS is broken, so as soon as it runs efibootmgr to create a boot entry,

Now if only my husband let me touch his "score reader (Acer Switch 3)"....

DonAjolote · July 22, 2021, 9:18pm

I did not use that solution because I did not know that it was based on Ubuntu and I thought that the name of the folders was different.

Everything is going well but here I get an error and I think it's because they changed something but I don't know how to do it.