Installation of Manjaro using Calamares always fails #79

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opened 2023-06-18 13:16:37 +00:00 by fidelski · 2 comments

fidelski commented

2023-06-18 13:16:37 +00:00

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Several independent problems provide the worst experience installing Linux ever

When trying to install Manjaro Linux the installer fails for different reasons:

The installer fails to select continue when first selecting manual partitioning.
The installer randomly crashes when trying to find available block devices.
The installer fails to install on systems with less than 8GB memory.
The installer ALWAYS fails to install grub - the efi partition is mounted somewhere below /tmp

To Reproduce

Try to install Manjaro Linux with the installer on a new computer - you may chose to use the entire disk or try to use a custom LVM partitioning scheme. Use 512MiB of an EFI partition at the start of the gpt formatted device.

Installation fails - always.

Several independent problems provide the worst experience installing Linux ever When trying to install Manjaro Linux the installer fails for different reasons: * The installer fails to select continue when first selecting manual partitioning. * The installer randomly crashes when trying to find available block devices. * The installer fails to install on systems with less than 8GB memory. * The installer ALWAYS fails to install grub - the efi partition is mounted somewhere below /tmp **To Reproduce** Try to install Manjaro Linux with the installer on a new computer - you may chose to use the entire disk or try to use a custom LVM partitioning scheme. Use 512MiB of an EFI partition at the start of the gpt formatted device. Installation fails - always.

codesardine commented

2023-06-18 16:11:09 +00:00

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Can you run calamares -d and paste the output here.

fidelski commented

2023-06-22 06:31:43 +00:00

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I have no clue why but this did the trick. I tried again - this time starting calamares from the commandline with sudo calamares -d | tee output.txt and it worked. Funnily also the problem with the selection of manual partitioning disappeared.
I will try to remember that when I want to install Manjaro the next time.

I have no clue why but this did the trick. I tried again - this time starting calamares from the commandline with `sudo calamares -d | tee output.txt` and it worked. Funnily also the problem with the selection of manual partitioning disappeared. I will try to remember that when I want to install Manjaro the next time.

fidelski (Migrated from gitlab2.manjaro.org) closed this issue

2023-06-22 06:31:45 +00:00