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[SOLVED] Cannot install grub

Post by super scooper » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:01 pm

I am trying to install grub on Linux mint 20.01 mate, but after typing sudo grub install , I get the following error: grub-install: error: /usr/local/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn’t exist. Please specify —target or —directory.
. I went to the location /usr/local/lib/grub/ , but there was no x86_64-efi folder but instead there was a folder named i386-pc . How do I install grub to that folder instead? I am a noob so all help is appreciated. EDIT: Installed Refind instead, got no errors.

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Re: Cannot install grub

Post by gittiest personITW » Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:16 am

GRUB should be installed automatically when you install Mint.

Can you boot into Mint without a problem? If so, GRUB is installed.
What is it you are trying to do exactly?
In general, if GRUB is working then best to leave it as it is unless there is a good reason.

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Re: Cannot install grub

Post by AndyMH » Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:00 am

Thinkcentre M720Q — LM21.1 cinnamon, 4 x T430 — LM20.3 cinnamon, Homebrew desktop i5-8400+GTX1080 Cinnamon 19.0

Re: Cannot install grub

Post by super scooper » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:32 pm

gittiest personITW wrote: ⤴ Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:16 am Hi,
Welcome to the forums.

GRUB should be installed automatically when you install Mint.

Can you boot into Mint without a problem? If so, GRUB is installed.
What is it you are trying to do exactly?
In general, if GRUB is working then best to leave it as it is unless there is a good reason.

When I first installed linux mint. I was dual booting it with windows 10. I did not know that the boot manager was grub, and I though that it was related to windows 10. When I removed windows 10 from my PC, I thought that there was no boot manager any more so that is why I tried to install grub. When I got the error, I installed the Refind boot manager instead (the day after I posted this thread), not knowing that grub was already installed.

HP Laptop, Intel Core i3-8130U, 119 GiB Samsung MZNLN128HAHQ-000H1 SSD, with Linux Mint 20.1 MATE installed

Custom PC, AMD Ryzen 5600X, 1TB SSD, 6TB HDD, 32gb RAM, Linux mint 20.1 XFCE installed

Re: Cannot install grub

Post by linux-rox » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:28 pm

rEFInd is a great boot manager, so that’s an excellent solution. To answer your original question, this tutorial has worked for me.

Re: Cannot install grub

Post by gittiest personITW » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:28 pm

Re: Cannot install grub

Post by super scooper » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:30 pm

linux-rox wrote: ⤴ Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:28 pm rEFInd is a great boot manager, so that’s an excellent solution. To answer your original question, this tutorial has worked for me.

HP Laptop, Intel Core i3-8130U, 119 GiB Samsung MZNLN128HAHQ-000H1 SSD, with Linux Mint 20.1 MATE installed

Custom PC, AMD Ryzen 5600X, 1TB SSD, 6TB HDD, 32gb RAM, Linux mint 20.1 XFCE installed

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Не могу установить Linux Mint через USB (ошибка grub-install), как исправить?

В конце установки на чистый HDD (выбираю пункт Стереть Windows) появляется окошко: «Не удалось выполнить команду ‘grub-install /dev/sda’. Это неисправимая ошибка». После этого окошка никакие действия не помогают даже рестарт компа сделать. При выборе других пунктов — та же история. Помогите. Устанавливаю с флешки, всё по гайдам, но в гайдах нет такой проблемы, а у меня есть =)

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а что значит «на чистый HDD» но есть пункт «Стереть Windows» ?
чистый HDD это вообще чистый ,то есть на нём ни чего нету

Дмитрий Новоселов, это не чистый , а с виндой , но в любом случае Mint устанавливается вообще легко , к сожалению я не могу показать это — так как не рядом . записывали образ через что ?

Через Rufus, гайд взят отсюда: https://elementary.io/ru/docs/installation#creatin. (в выборе ос выбор винды, там гайд по руфусу)

Максим Ленский, ну вот на работе я с линукса сижу, дома не могу установить. Когда-то давно я ставил elementary os домой, была та же ошибка, когда выбирал пункт «другое», но когда выбирал — стереть windows, elementary os устанавливалась. На работе стоит mint, правда старенький, ещё 17.3 Rose, и ставил тоже я его на рабочую машину — проблем не было. Всё гладко. такое ощущение, что дома с винтом что-то. хз

Дмитрий Новоселов, в Лине запиши образ , у меня тоже комп хитрожопый . как я записал в Лине образ он установился без танцев с бубном

Решением оказалось вот что: На компе было 2 винта, один из них (главный/загрузочный) был с виндой, второй винт нужен был для установки Linux. При установке указывался второй винт для установки загрузчика, но тут я заметил, что второй винт маркируется как /dev/sdb, и при установке именно он указывается в качестве загрузчика, а первый винт маркируется как /dev/sda. При ошибке «Не удалось выполнить команду ‘grub-install /dev/sda‘. Это неисправимая ошибка» я вижу, что граб пытается залезть не в то место. подумал, что возможно в этом и кроется проблема.

Решение: Зашёл в Биос, переставил приоритет загрузки для винтов и поменял местами их в Boot, второй стал первым, первый стал вторым. Устанавливаю Linux Mint — вуаля! Всё работает. неожиданно, спрашивается зачем спрашивать в какой винт поставить загрузчик если grub это игнорирует и лезет в первый.

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[SOLVED] Installer fails: ‘grub-install /dev/sda failed’

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[SOLVED] Installer fails: ‘grub-install /dev/sda failed’

Post by ParaDice » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:02 pm

I’m trying to do a fresh install of LM 20, but it keeps failing with the error: ‘grub-install /dev/sda failed’.

I’m pretty sure it’s because I’ve zero experience with EFI installs. I’d love to install without an EFI partition, but Mint won’t let me. Can someone help me figure out either
a) how to run the installer without EFI or
b) get the installer to install grub with EFI?

I’ve attached my setup as a screenshot. Notes:
* I use the «Something else» option because I have moved my /home folder to a separate encrypted partition.
* The NTFS partitions are used by a Win dual boot.

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Re: Installer fails: ‘grub-install /dev/sda failed’

Post by linux-rox » Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:19 pm

Looks like you’re booted in UEFI, but trying to install to an MBR partition table.
From the live session, please report the output of inxi -Fxz and sudo parted —list.

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Re: Installer fails: ‘grub-install /dev/sda failed’

Post by ParaDice » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:58 am

thanks for your reply! Your assumption is correct: I used to install in non-UEFI mode (MBR), but now I cannot seem to get Mint to live-boot into MBR mode. The BIOS is set to boot in legacy mode.

Here are my specs and partition details:

System: Kernel: 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450M Pro4 serial: UEFI: American Megatrends v: P3.90 date: 12/09/2019 Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3 charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 3072 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 86239 Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2195 2: 2196 3: 2196 4: 2195 5: 2196 6: 2195 7: 2193 8: 2195 9: 2195 10: 2196 11: 2195 12: 2195 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 06:00.0 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0.1 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.4 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 06:00.1 Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.4 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-26-generic Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 04:00.0 IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.28 TiB used: 1.26 TiB (55.1%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM006-2DM164 size: 1.82 TiB temp: 27 C ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Extreme Pro size: 238.50 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.78 GiB used: 195.5 MiB (2.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 ID-2: /var/log size: 231.93 GiB used: 67.5 MiB (0.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc3 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 56.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 32 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 585 Info: Processes: 299 Uptime: 8m Memory: 15.56 GiB used: 1.44 GiB (9.2%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.16 inxi: 3.0.38 

Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 250GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 155GB 155GB primary ntfs 2 155GB 250GB 95.2GB extended 5 155GB 155GB 499MB logical fat32 boot, esp 6 155GB 250GB 94.7GB logical ext4 Model: ATA ST2000DM006-2DM1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 419GB 419GB primary ntfs boot 2 419GB 2000GB 1581GB extended 5 419GB 2000GB 1581GB logical Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes. Ignore/Cancel? Ignore Model: SanDisk Extreme Pro (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1024GB Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B Partition Table: mac Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 2048B 6143B 4096B Apple 2 332kB 4395kB 4063kB EFI Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm) Disk /dev/mapper/sdb5_crypt: 1581GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: loop Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 1581GB 1581GB ext4 

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