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I have built a new computer and I am attempting to install Mag 9 Beta 1 on it. The SSD I am installing it on had a working Mag 9 on it just a few weeks ago, so I used the existing partitions. The previous computer fried its Mother Board so I have replaced that part but kept the disk drive.

The Mag 9 beta live runs fine on the computer, and I install from there. The installation completed with no issues except for two errors at the end:



After I click on OK it tells me to shut down, remove the USB drive and reboot. When I do that, the system boots directly into the EFI BIOS.

I have done this installation twice with the same outcome. Apparently, the system does not recognize the SSD as a bootable device. Here is a summary of the hardware.

Crucial BX100 CT500BX100SSD1 2.5" 500GB SATA 6Gbps
(SATA III) Micron 16nm MLC NAND Internal Solid State Drive
(SSD)

Intel Core i5-11400 - Core i5 11th Gen Rocket Lake 6-Core 2.6 GHz LGA 1200 65W

MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI LGA 1200 Intel Z490 SATA 6Gb/s ATX
Intel Motherboard

Any tips on what to look at would be appreciated.

Banjo
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banjo wrote:The SSD I am installing it on had a working Mag 9 on it just a few weeks ago, so I used the existing partitions.

Well, you'd need to update the entries in your EFI as those are still pointing to the old installation, but the partition UUID has changed as / and /boot/EFI were probably formatted since then.

If you boot your system in UEFI mode, what's the output of

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efibootmgr -v

? You may also want to look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Efibootmgr

doktor5000, thanks for the suggestions.

I assumed that the installation would reformat / and /boot/EFI, but apparently it did not... or my BIOS is looking elsewhere.

I did get this to work, and the answer was in this dialog box:



For the initial installations, I took the defaults, but apparently my BIOS needs the workaround mentioned in the second item. The fix was to select the second option, install in /EFI/BOOT.



Once I did that, the installation worked flawlessly.

I will mark this solved.

Banjo

as you have really new hardware, I would ask that you join the QA team, testing beta2 (and on).
I have some specific hardware that, like you, requires that option to be selected for beta1.
It seems that for beta2 (currently in various testing) does install into the same hardware without requiring choosing that option.

or, you could wait for beta2 release and test install to a small partition. again, feedback would be welcome. (#mageia-qa)

cheers

Maybe something to put in Errata - that this may bee needed, so users can learn about that option

as you have really new hardware, I would ask that you join the QA team, testing beta2 (and on).
I have some specific hardware that, like you, requires that option to be selected for beta1.
It seems that for beta2 (currently in various testing) does install into the same hardware without requiring choosing that option.

or, you could wait for beta2 release and test install to a small partition. again, feedback would be welcome. (#mageia-qa)

OK. I don't know how to do any of that. I am running an up to date cauldron as far as I know. Is there something more leading edge for beta 2? I could easily re-install after beta2 comes out if that helps. This computer is my experimental computer that I run leading edge stuff on. I break it all the time.

Maybe something to put in Errata - that this may bee needed, so users can learn about that option

It wasn't totally clear what the option is for. I tried it because I had tried everything else without any luck.

morgano wrote:Maybe something to put in Errata - that this may bee needed, so users can learn about that option

This is already in Errata since MGA8:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Err ... of_install

That isn't exactly the problem I saw or the workaround I used. For me, the installation did not crash or hang. It finished normally. The problem was that on reboot the BIOS did not recognize the disk. I did install GRUB2, which is working. The only thing I had to do to get it working was to select "Install in /EFI/BOOT".