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Installation from ISO's do not boot

Open yochananmarqos opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

I've tried installing Linux distros from my multibootusb stick and every time the installation is broken. I've tried with Manjaro, Linux Mint 18.3 & 19. They appear to install fine, but will not boot from hard disk after the installation. I haven't tried Manjaro in awhile, so I don't remember what happened exactly. I just tried both aforementioned versions of Mint yesterday and both dumped me to the initramfs prompt. If I use a program like Isousb, everything is fine.

multibootusb 9.2.0 Manjaro Linux

yochananmarqos avatar Jul 07 '18 18:07 yochananmarqos

I'm having the same problem. I installed Linux Mint 19 from my multibootusb stick. The installation appears to do fine. But when i boot from hard disk it goes to initramfs. It's not a iso problem because when I install this distro from a stick with the comand dd, the installation and boot from the hard disk goes fine.

I attached the screenshot with the problem when it initializes from hard disk.

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The picture below shows what error it shows when i try to fix the error with a live disc.

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betinhosalgado avatar Jul 12 '18 18:07 betinhosalgado

It appears your HDD installation is trying to use /dev/sdb1 (whose UUID is 20FF-0B71) as the root device. It should look for /dev/sda5 (whose UUID is af5896dd-d18c-4098-b32b-c28b8ede44d6). What do you get if you 'cat /proc/cmdline' in busy-box shell? Don't you get multiple root= options with different uuids there? If you do, edit away the offending option in the grub GUI and boot off of the modified cmdline.

shinji-s avatar Jul 14 '18 11:07 shinji-s

Same issue here..... strange that it was working for an Ubuntu 18.04 based ISO until recently?? for now reverting to mkusb-nox to create bootable USB installers.

@shinji-s is correct that if you edit the grub entry and delete the second "root" device it will then boot. Then when get booted, can edit /etc/default/grub and remove junk in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX (leaving it =""), then run sudo update-grub and it should be cleaned up and boot correctly.

rik-shaw avatar Sep 11 '18 14:09 rik-shaw

Same here.

MegaV0lt avatar Jan 03 '19 16:01 MegaV0lt

same here with v9.2 and LinuxMint 19.2

Pafzedog avatar Sep 13 '19 10:09 Pafzedog