Hi! I've tried to install Zorin OS 18 to an old laptop, an HP ProBook 4520s, but when the installation is supposed to be finished, I remove the USB from where I'm installing it, try to boot it without the USB, and then get a message saying "Non-system disk or disk error, replace and strike any key when ready".
I ran a diagnosis thing on Zorin and it produced the following text:
boot-repair-4ppa2081-zorin1 [20251110_1122]
============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 2048
of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
looks for (,gpt3)/boot/grub. It also embeds following components:
modules
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fshelp ext2 part_gpt biosdisk
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=> Syslinux MBR (5.00 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type: Grub2's core.img
Boot sector info:
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Zorin OS 18
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 6.04
Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 32816 of /dev/sdb1 for its
second stage. The integrity check of Syslinux failed.
No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /syslinux.cfg
/efi/boot/bootia32.efi /efi/boot/bootx64.efi
/efi/boot/grubx64.efi /efi/boot/mmx64.efi /ldlinux.sys
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1 (linux): Zorin OS 18 (18) on sda3
================================ Host/Hardware =================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller from Intel Corporation
Live-session OS is Zorin 64-bit (Zorin OS 18, noble, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS/UEFI firmware: 68AZZ Ver. F.0A(15.10) from Hewlett-Packard
This live-session is in Legacy/BIOS/CSM mode (not in EFI mode).
39bc76ff6662f4fbe9aa116e4c997b41 sda2/BOOT/fbx64.efi
4ba5a5aad43c197e9fb58b76b404d287 sda2/BOOT/mmx64.efi
94c7467f956700d44c5b4dcd3967535c sda2/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
4ba5a5aad43c197e9fb58b76b404d287 sda2/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e sda2/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
07e25dcaf57c776875f78fa36827c58e sda2/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
sda : is-GPT, hasBIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, no-wind, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
sda2 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sda3 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, end-after-100GB
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
sda2 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot, vfat
sda3 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot, ext4
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
sda2 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda3 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sda
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sda: 111.79 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Disk identifier: CB607418-1032-4D66-BBE0-95B8471A9790
Start End Sectors Size Type
sda1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot
sda2 4096 1054719 1050624 513M EFI System
sda3 1054720 234440703 233385984 111.3G Linux filesystem
Disk sdb: 14.65 GiB, 15728640000 bytes, 30720000 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x0b37c602
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdb1 * 2048 30719951 30717904 14.6G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:120GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA KINGSTON SA400S3:;
1:1049kB:2097kB:1049kB:::bios_grub;
2:2097kB:540MB:538MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
3:540MB:120GB:119GB:ext4::;
sdb:15.7GB:scsi:512:512:msdos: PHILIPS:;
1:1049kB:15.7GB:15.7GB:fat32::boot, lba;
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1 09bad84d-c411-4726-9791-810134c44b25
├─sda2 vfat 3665-4542 572858c4-7c73-4311-93d1-90d5110fa806 EFI System Partition
└─sda3 ext4 d9eabea8-9183-48a8-b620-b735b3658e05 a8e48743-bd86-4b2a-a098-f5ee2ad9b149
sdb
└─sdb1 vfat 62FE-F47B 0b37c602-01 ZORIN OS 18
Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 505.8M 1% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
/dev/sda3 93.6G 9% /mnt/boot-sav/sda3
/dev/sdb1 11.1G 24% /cdrom
Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
/dev/sda2 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/sda3 ext4 rw,relatime
/dev/sdb1 vfat ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
===================== sda2/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid d9eabea8-9183-48a8-b620-b735b3658e05 root hd0,gpt3
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda3/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Zorin OS d9eabea8-9183-48a8-b620-b735b3658e05
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
========================== sda3/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=d9eabea8-9183-48a8-b620-b735b3658e05 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=3665-4542 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
======================= sda3/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release; echo ${NAME:-Ubuntu} ) 2>/dev/null || echo Ubuntu`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
GRUB_DISABLE_MEMTEST=true
==================== sda3: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
72.647533417 = 78.004695040 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
66.634155273 = 71.547879424 boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img 1
14.198238373 = 15.245242368 boot/vmlinuz 2
14.198238373 = 15.245242368 boot/vmlinuz-6.14.0-33-generic 2
85.127689362 = 91.405160448 boot/initrd.img 3
85.127689362 = 91.405160448 boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-33-generic 3
85.127689362 = 91.405160448 boot/initrd.img.old 3
===================== sda3: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18123 May 17 13:12 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43192 May 17 13:12 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14513 May 17 13:12 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 786 May 17 13:12 25_bli
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13120 May 17 13:12 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1174 May 17 13:12 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 722 Jul 11 07:24 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 May 17 13:12 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 May 17 13:12 41_custom
====================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Try or Install Zorin OS
Try or Install Zorin OS (safe graphics)
Try or Install Zorin OS (modern NVIDIA drivers)
UEFI Firmware Settings
Power Off
========================= sdb1/syslinux.cfg (filtered) =========================
DEFAULT loadconfig
LABEL loadconfig
CONFIG /isolinux/isolinux.cfg
APPEND /isolinux/
==================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Syslinux ==================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? syslinux.cfg 1
?? = ?? ldlinux.sys 1
Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would reinstall the grub-efi of
sda3,
using the following options: sda2/boot/efi
Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
Blockers in case of suggested repair: __________________________________________
The current session is in BIOS-compatibility mode. Please disable BIOS-compatibility/CSM/Legacy mode in your UEFI firmware, and use this software from a live-CD (or live-USB) that is compatible with UEFI booting mode. For example, use a live-USB of Boot-Repair-Disk-64bit (www.sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd), after making sure your BIOS is set up to boot USB in EFI mode. This will enable this feature.
Final advice in case of suggested repair: ______________________________________
Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Zorin OS 18 (18) entry (sda2/efi/****/grub****.efi (**** will be updated in the final message) file) !
The boot of your PC is in BIOS-compatibility/CSM/Legacy mode. You may want to retry after changing it to UEFI mode.
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Does anyone know what's happening? Thanks!
