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systeminstallations fails with /boot/efi

Asked by Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen

Hello,
I try to install from a USB-Stick with the ISO I made with UNetBootin, made a sblive converted to an ISO on another PC, to save time and errors. I run into the following issue:
I have a new HD, split up in 250 GB 16 GB Swap (too much I know) and the rest as /home
I assign SWAP as swap, home as /home. now the problem:
If I set Linux as /boot/efi, then systemback deny me to go on., greyed out.
With mountpoint / it installs, but it refuses t boot, what I can't understand, because a previous installation worked, with mountpoint /

I saw the advice of going back and fort until the further (don't know in Englisch, I use German, there "weiter"), bt ths makes no sense afer 10 times tryig - no result.

I would realy like to be able to ths, because t is better than naytng I saw before. I was pretty damaged of windows, 3 years coma and 1000.des of hours workaround. but was very glad as I found Ubuntu., ca. 10 years ago. Such a tool as Systemback is a highlite, a very bright one ! Good work.

I would be happy to get some advice about this

I use Ubuntu 14.04.5 with Gnome 3

(I tried to find out bevor writing this but didn't find anything)

Kind regards
Dag

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Kendek (nemh) said : 		#1

The '/boot/efi' is only necessary if you try to install to a UEFI enabled machine. But the '/' (root) filesystem is essential in every situation. So with BIOS (or compatibility mode), you need '/', '/home' and SWAP, and with UEFI, you need '/', '/boot/efi' (this is a small >=100 MiB FAT32 partition), '/home' and SWAP.

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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#2
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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#3

Hello Kendek

tihs works fine, a really fast new installation, saves me a lot of time :)
But I am a little confused of the partitions. I see only one partition for
the only SATA in the moment. I miss the system and the swap partitions

Kind regards
Dag

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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#4

Hello again

it seems more serious than I thought
I have 1 HDD. In gparted I have one disk with 1 partion called @SB, ext4 size 1.82 TB used 1,6 TB
Never.. The Info of my/home/dag is 185 GB used, free space 134 GB, this does ot fit at all

Can you give a tip about this please?
Kind regards
Dag

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Kendek (nemh) said : 		#5

Sorry, but I do not understand your situation at all.

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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#6

Hello Kendek

I am sorry about that, I could tell you but wont
because I found an older diskwhic I installed, and this was succesful.
But, sorry abut that but:
I can make sblive. but I cannot make an ISO of it. and if I try to write on an USB-stick, it ends with an format error.
how does the USB-stick have to be formatted or completly deleted?

and I really would like to be able to convert to an ISO. which parameters do I oversee?
sorry for this troubles

kind regards
Dag

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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#7

Hello kendek

new stat please.
of some reason all the USB-sticks with sblive I made, also the former ones, refuse to start the installation procedure. I have only a brandnew HDD and the USB-stick (or key). Boot with the USB, come to selection menu, go to point #2, install.
ubuntu starst and I come to an guest login in english (I use german).

dont give up on me pease, it seems I tapped nto every trap possible since I started on thursday. also the disks I made before, also with SB and worked, the last one with pretty good reslt, stopped working. only the disk I made as first works, but not as I like. (I told you but you wouldn't go into that)

do you have any idea of your experience, why running systems suudenly stop working?
I will realy appreciate help here, I think it must have something to do with Sb, because disks I start to install with ubuntu standard ISo boot wihtout problem.

so the main problem now is: why d ont Iget into the installation?

(I don't give up, because I see the benefits of SB)
kind regards Dag

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Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen (dag-b) said : 		#8

Hello
last time with this matter
I made the mistake installnig with only three partitions, how I don't know
I t made onyl 1 partition on the target HDD, I still could start but lost a lot of space
The next SBLIVE I made were corrupted, Impossible to install from

Only one last advice: Make sure to use 4 paritions when installing from SBLIVE

After 4 days of heavy searching, trial and error, i am impressed of the possibilities this software makes.

Good work Kendek, even if you didn't understand my problem

Kind regards
Dag