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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?

    sorter_plainview ,

    Oh my mistake. I thought it was you, and you modified the default partition options.

    So if you have modified default options in the partitions screen, then my comment is relevant. Else just ignore it.

    sturlabragason ,

    Sorry wrong level

    senilelemon OP ,

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

    sturlabragason ,

    This sounds correct.

    UID_Zero ,
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    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.

    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

    user134450 ,

    So it still uses a MSDOS partition table, interesting. This usually only happens on systems that do not support EFI at all.

    Is your BIOS and main board fairly old per chance?

    Adderbox76 ,

    It’s been a long time since I last installed Linux on a two hard-drive system, so take this advice as “likely not necessary, but will probably fix your issue”

    The installer asks whether or not you want to “replace” the existing OS or install alongside. And if you’re fairly new to linux (like I was at the time) it can be tricky to see at a glance which hard-drive you want to install it to and which you don’t.

    So to be doubly cautious and make sure that didn’t happen, I simply unplugged my secondary harddrive during the install so that the installer would automatically be reading the correct one. Then all I had to do was choose “replace” or “install alongside” without worrying about anything else.

    The drawback to that was, once the install was complete and I re-attached my second drive, I had to configure it to auto-mount and do some work on that, but at least my computer was working.

    lemmyreader ,

    Is this a desktop computer ? Two hard disks can make things more difficult. How about taking the power cord temporarily off from the larger disk, then install, and if it’s successful then turn it off and give the 2nd disk power again, and add that 2nd disk manually to the fstab as e.g. /opt/ as mount point.

    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.

    senilelemon OP ,

    Yeah, I couldn’t find a good solution online either. Maybe It was a bit flip? Guess the universe sent a high velocity particle at my PC from lightyears away just to ruin my day, that’s the only explaination I have after seven hours of looking online.

    Sure, I’ll check out some other distros.

    pastermil ,

    Is this after installing?

    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.

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