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gnuhaut ,

I’d say grub is having trouble with your hardware (mainboard or disk maybe).

You could try to update your mainboard’s firmware, or install another bootloader (or maybe just a newer version of grub). I’m not sure what the easiest way to get a different bootloader is. I don’t think Debian’s installer offers anything besides grub. Maybe other people can point to a distro where installing something other than grub is easy.

Because switching out the bootloader on an unbootable system (i.e. not from the installer) is going to be whole pain in the butt involving booting into a live usb, mounting and chrooting and god knows what.

user134450 ,

Hi, it would be useful to know what kind of device you are installing on. For a laptop the model and make would be especially useful. If it is a PC then the drive configuration would be interesting (what kind of drive, how many etc.)

senilelemon OP ,

It’s a PC. Two Hard Disk Drives

1st Drive: SATA:PM-KINGSTON S

2nd Drive: SATA:SM-ST500LT012

edit: 1st one is of around 138GB, 2nd one has around 500GB

user134450 ,

Ok, that looks like a fairly standard setup. I guess taking a look at the boot loader itself would be the next step. When you see the Debian bootloader you could try pressing ‘e’ to view what commands it uses internally to boot. The lines starting with “linux” and “initrd” would be most interesting.

senilelemon OP ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c5dceed3-63e1-451e-98d0-4c0dbab33377.jpeg

KaninchenSpeed ,

I dont know how you flashed the usb, but it seems like the installer is damaged. Try redownloading the iso, check the file hash, flash the usb drive with balena etcher and reinstall.

Did you change the partition layout in the installer?

sturlabragason ,

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sorter_plainview ,

Can you try without changing the layout? i.e. with the default settings.

senilelemon OP ,

Did you mean to reply to me or @sturlabragason? If it’s me, could you please specify what you mean?

senilelemon OP ,

Okay, I will try again with a live-boot USB this time

bsergay ,

Could you describe what has transpired before? Have you actually installed Debian? Are you still trying to boot into the install medium?

Perhaps sharing device specs might be helpful.

senilelemon OP ,

This is after installing debian and booting it up. I used the “complete package” Iso they offer.

bsergay ,

Together with all the other information you’ve shared, it’s not entirely clear why it has failed; at least to me.

If you’re not married/tied to the installation of Debian, may I suggest installing Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Tuxedo OS or Zorin OS instead?

There are of course many other distros you could choose, but the earlier mentioned ones are ‘stable’ like Debian is. I thought that perhaps it was what attracted you towards Debian in the first place.

UID_Zero ,
@UID_Zero@infosec.pub avatar

Interesting. Looks like perhaps your boot loader isn’t properly pointing at your root partition.

I’m assuming you’ve just done the install and never successfully booted, yes? In that case, you can try to re-run the installer, or try rescue mode and try repairing the bootloader.

Are you doing dual-booting, or is this system dedicated to Linux?

senilelemon OP ,

Yes, I have not been able to successfully boot yet. I have already rerun the installer and tried every solution I could find online in rescue mode. Tried repairing grub too.

No, I am not dual-booting.

senilelemon OP ,

This is the screen a few seconds afterwards https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f61c7051-15d3-4955-8168-dec5a716154d.jpeg

arandomthought ,

Absolutely not an expert or anything, but is it possible that the partition of your harddrive that you’re trying to install Debian on (hd0) is too small?

senilelemon OP ,

It’s a ~138GB hard disk drive.

Corngood ,

The original error actually makes it sound like there’s a partition on hda that’s bigger than hda itself.

senilelemon OP ,

Partition size wasn’t specified in any step of the setup. If that is the issue, Is there any way to fix it?

bsergay ,

At some point, the installation should ask you the driver on which it should be installed and also how the driver should be interacted with; i.e full wipe and then installation or only specified partitions. You specified elsewhere that you don’t intend to dual-boot. Hence, selecting the correct drive and following the instructions for full wipe + installation (which should be regular/default installation) should have been sufficient.

senilelemon OP ,

That is what I did

bsergay ,

As expected. At this point, consider following a video tutorial if you haven’t yet.

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