Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Problems with desktop-live iso.

Re: Problems with desktop-live iso.

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:45:03 +0000

You could drop to console and use the cli version of the installer.

# Press ctrl-alt-F2 to get to a command prompt.
sudo refractainstaller

Note that refractainstaller does not do any automatic partitioning. If you boot in uefi mode and you don't have an efi partition, the installer will complain.

Re: Problems with desktop-live iso.

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:13:47 +0000

I think the modesetting DDX driver is a better option than nouveau at this stage. Not buying NVIDIA's crap is the best option ofc.

Re: Problems with desktop-live iso.

dummy@example.com (Camtaf) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:09:31 +0000

I just installed to a UEFI computer yesterday, it works.

When you install, you have to first create a fat32 partition of about 100MB, & set its flags to boot esp, then create your other partitions & install as usual.

Problems with desktop-live iso.

dummy@example.com (Darius) — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:01:37 +0000

Hi guys.

I encountered with two desktop live iso problems that have not been fixed since the chimaera release.

1: Creating an efi partition by refractainstaller is completely broken. If user not have efi partition initially, refractainstaller create not proper efi partition and system not boot at all. I try desktop-live iso on many PC. The result is always the same. The system does not start. You can try it by yourself. Just delete efi partition and try install desktop-live iso.

2: I think you know about bad work nouveau with nvidia video cards. It affects the installation of desktop-live iso. Installation simply does not have time to finish when nouveau crash and freeze desktop environment. Sometimes from 10-15 attempts maybe something will succeed. You should think about optional installation without desktop environment.