#Grub won’t install

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limber bane
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Copied from the website

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Like the handbook

limber bane
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@lean pecan

lean pecan
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here i am

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the handbook has two specific parts
one for bios and one for UEFI

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i reckon that you followed the part for BIOS

limber bane
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I did everything else for uefi tho

lean pecan
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so grub is configurated for BIOS, but youre using UEFI

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ya, either you do it uefi or bios

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not mixed

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send me your make.conf or your package.use correlated to grub if you have one

limber bane
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Uhh I do but my parents need me to do stuff

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Can I check later and ping u?

lean pecan
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ya sure

limber bane
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How do I view the config files

lean pecan
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go into your portage make.conf if ur stuff is there, or ur portage package.use

limber bane
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Idk how to get there

lean pecan
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u sure u know ur way around filesystems 😭?

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just ls /etc/portage and see

limber bane
limber bane
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@lean pecan

lean pecan
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hey

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whats up

limber bane
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Do I just enter that command and show u what it is

lean pecan
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ls /etc/portage and see what u got

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if u have package.use files

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go there and show me what u have

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if u have everything monolithically in the make.conf then send me ur make.conf

limber bane
limber bane
lean pecan
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hmm

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go in ur make.conf

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paste this

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GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64 pc"

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then rebuild grub

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$ emerge --ask sys-boot/grub

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then rebuild grub for efi

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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

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and create a config

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

limber bane
lean pecan
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wait

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you didnt install grub?

limber bane
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Well like when I installed it gave that error

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I merged it tho

lean pecan
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show me the error

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please

lean pecan
limber bane
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It was the error I had in the first place with the .sh file

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Up here

lean pecan
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that error happens because you didnt specify the target

limber bane
lean pecan
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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

limber bane
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Wait so ion even need to do this

lean pecan
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try runnign the command with the target

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see what it tells yo

lean pecan
limber bane
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Like at all

lean pecan
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try doing the stuff i said above

lean pecan
lean pecan
limber bane
lean pecan
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try setting the directory only to /boot

limber bane
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Still

lean pecan
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hmm..

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run this

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emerge -pv sys-boot/grub | grep GRUB_PLATFORMS

limber bane
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It added it to the uefi

lean pecan
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so, what does it tell u

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ah

limber bane
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So am I fine or?

lean pecan
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hold on

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lets play it dirty

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this is the last thing i can try

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mkdir -p /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
ln -s /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh
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at this point

limber bane
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wtf is this 🤯

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That’s so confusing lol

lean pecan
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were creating it ourselves

limber bane
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Ahh

lean pecan
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mkdir -p
mkdir = make directory
-p = --parent

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ln -s = symbolic link

limber bane
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Like commands

lean pecan
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yup

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there are two lines

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wait

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let me send them apart

limber bane
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Please

lean pecan
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mkdir -p /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi

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ln -s /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh

limber bane
limber bane
lean pecan
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kk

limber bane
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Done

lean pecan
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great

limber bane
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No output so I’m assuming no errors

lean pecan
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re execute grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

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and then grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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lets hope everything works out nw

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now*

limber bane
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Install device isn’t specified

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Like wha?

lean pecan
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send me the full error

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it aint just telling u that fo sho

limber bane
lean pecan
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sigh

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grub-mkimage --output=/tmp/core.efi --format=x86_64-efi --directory=/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi --prefix="" dummy

limber bane
lean pecan
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im not sure

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i just hope it will

limber bane
lean pecan
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?

limber bane
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So it like gave me another error

lean pecan
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great

limber bane
lean pecan
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can you show me your lsblk -f

limber bane
lean pecan
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are you dualbooting

limber bane
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Yes

lean pecan
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wait where is your efi partition mounted

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fuck

limber bane
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Nvme0n1

lean pecan
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no thats the whole disk

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where did you mount ur efi part

limber bane
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Ohhh nvme0n1p4

lean pecan
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no thats the name

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where di u mount ur nvme0n1p4

limber bane
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Huh

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Now I’m confused

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Sorry I’m new to Linux

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I literally just came off Linux mint

lean pecan
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then why is your first attempt gentoo

limber bane
lean pecan
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  1. i have no business in dual booting sorry
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  1. gentoo is for experts
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if youre new to linux, please, and i repeat, PLEASE, use something easier

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gentoo as a third distro is probably the worst idea possible

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not saying this because i dont want you to do gentoo

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but because it is not a good idea to start off with the final boss

limber bane
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Ok

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So like any distro u could reccomend

lean pecan
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what do you look for, in a distro?

limber bane
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That’s minimal but not like rlly rlly hard

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Minimal

lean pecan
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hm

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what do u mean by minimal

limber bane
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Like runs kde customisable but doesn’t come with a lot of unnecessary stuff

lean pecan
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every distro can run kde

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well uhm

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since i really respect your wish for distros as hard as gentoo

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i reccomend trying out arch linux

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and installing it via the archinstall script

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or following the manual, tho for newer users like you, archinstall is really good

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i could help you through it

limber bane
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Yeah if u don’t mind im eating dinner with my family tho so can i add u

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Wait is archinstall just type arch install and that’s all?

limber bane
lean pecan
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you first connect to internet using the iwd ctl tool

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then you just type archinstall

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and it gives you a few settings in a TUI

limber bane
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That’s hella simple

lean pecan
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yuppp, its beginner friendly

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i reccomend to then just stay on arch and learn only there, without distrohopping

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so you learn something easily and consistently

limber bane
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Unlike the around 12 hrs I spent to kinda get to gentoo

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And then get errors

lean pecan
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my first install took me 15 hours

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lol

limber bane
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Lmao

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It speeds up massively tho

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Like once u get to a point

lean pecan
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the hardest part is waiting for emerge -avuDN @world to finish

limber bane
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Yeah

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I was tryna get to a compiling step at 2am so I could gts

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And have it working but ima just get the arch iso after I eat

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Can I add u?

lean pecan
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ya