as I wrote in the topic - on other distributions it was enough to create one partition, usually 1MiB as BIOS Boot and allocate the rest of the space for the / partition. on LMDE, such a scheme does not work. when I set the disk this way, the system installs, the grub menu is displayed, the system tries to start, and then I get an error and system is unable to boot, runs in an emergency mode without access to any user.
#How to install LMDE on a Legacy BIOS machine using a GPT-formatted disk?
crystal ginkgo
crystal ginkgo
(even on clean Debian it's enough to do what I described in the previous message)
okay, problem solved. I used a ventoy disk for the installation and LMDE thought /dev/sdb2 (USB partition) is the /boot/efi part and saved the fstab file this way 😄
solid swallow
i know you solved this, but it would have just been as well to boot from any live-linux usb; use the gparted program to make a NEW partition TABLE overtop your hard-drive. and select that p. table to be MBR style, not gpt. then you could install whatever, and it would detect it has a master boot record, and wont bother with any EFI crap
crystal ginkgo
yeah, ofc