bobsone
June 10th, 2018, 04:09 PM
I am trying to load Mate 18.02 onto a separate sata HDD/SSD (sdd & sde) combo in a windows 8.1 desktop.
As I understand the process, since this is a windows UEFI setup (fast and secure boot are off) I need to install the UEFI option on the live usb.
Because I am installing on two new sata drives I chose the something else option and add a Boot, Root and Swap partition on the SSD and put the Home partition on the new HDD. The issue I can not resolve is that although I can install the bios version (it works but can require 2 or 3 attempts to get it to boot) the UEFI install always fails at the grub install.
With the UEFI install, when I get to the selection box titled Use this device below for boot loader location, it gives the option of sda which is actually the first of a two 1TB raid1 HDDs (not the windows partition).
Because I am just experimenting with 18.04 I haven't yet tried loading the boot loader in with the windows boot partition, I have read a few comments indicating this can/may cause a problem with windows. I have unsuccessfully tried leaving it set to sda and even setting the boot loader location to the /boot (sde1) partition on the new SSD but each time the install fails at the grub install stage.
I have read a few comments stating that no matter what I do the UEFI grub install will revert to the sda partition, since sda is a storage drive, could this be what is causing my grub install failure?
Regards.
As I understand the process, since this is a windows UEFI setup (fast and secure boot are off) I need to install the UEFI option on the live usb.
Because I am installing on two new sata drives I chose the something else option and add a Boot, Root and Swap partition on the SSD and put the Home partition on the new HDD. The issue I can not resolve is that although I can install the bios version (it works but can require 2 or 3 attempts to get it to boot) the UEFI install always fails at the grub install.
With the UEFI install, when I get to the selection box titled Use this device below for boot loader location, it gives the option of sda which is actually the first of a two 1TB raid1 HDDs (not the windows partition).
Because I am just experimenting with 18.04 I haven't yet tried loading the boot loader in with the windows boot partition, I have read a few comments indicating this can/may cause a problem with windows. I have unsuccessfully tried leaving it set to sda and even setting the boot loader location to the /boot (sde1) partition on the new SSD but each time the install fails at the grub install stage.
I have read a few comments stating that no matter what I do the UEFI grub install will revert to the sda partition, since sda is a storage drive, could this be what is causing my grub install failure?
Regards.