[SOLVED] Razer Blade (2016) + Debain

Ztcoracat · 09-20-2016, 09:55 PM

Here's the link that Timothy posted in post # 30
http://aaronbonner.io/post/211037311...-linux-install

zoelee4 · 09-20-2016, 10:35 PM

thanks. I can boot into grub, but I cannot get to the actual live cd. Do you know how I would get to the actually live cd? thanks!

Ztcoracat · 09-20-2016, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by zoelee4

thanks. I can boot into grub, but I cannot get to the actual live cd. Do you know how I would get to the actually live cd? thanks!

Make your CDROM drive the first boot choice in the BIOS.

273 · 09-21-2016, 12:51 AM

The procedure to boot from the live USB should be along the lines of going into BIOS and turning off "fast boot" and "secure boot" then powering off, inserting the live USB, powering back on then going back into BIOS and selecting it in the UEFI boot menu to boot from.

zoelee4 · 09-23-2016, 09:50 PM

I was able to install grub, but I dont see it when i reboot

I am wondering what I did wrong and where I need to install grub. thanks again for you help!

Ztcoracat · 09-23-2016, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by zoelee4

I was able to install grub, but I dont see it when i reboot

I am wondering what I did wrong and where I need to install grub. thanks again for you help!

During your Gentoo install did you install Grub to the master boot record?

And did you go into the BIOS and disable the 'fast boot'?

If you didn't disable the fast boot that may be why you don't have the GNU Grub Menu.

zoelee4 · 09-24-2016, 10:07 AM

I did not install gentoo, I used it to chroot into debian and install grub from debian. I also did disable fast boot. I was just looking at gentoo and I think that the problem may be the live usb is /dev/sda and my primary disk is /dev/nvme0n1p. thanks again... if you want a screen shot, here it is (sorry, I was still trying to figure out where I was in root...)
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui...sz=w3076-h1620

Ztcoracat · 09-24-2016, 12:51 PM

So you were able to install Grub from the Debian Live USB. That's good:-

Is Debian installed?

zoelee4 · 09-24-2016, 01:10 PM

i installed debain. I cannot boot into debian because I cannot install grub. I was using gentoo to chroot into debain. I attempted to install grub from there. thanks!

Ztcoracat · 09-24-2016, 06:00 PM

Now that you have Debian installed installing Grub should be fairly easy.

Either use the Live USB of Debian or the Live CD become 'root' and run:

Code:

apt-get install grub

https://wiki.debian.org/Grub

Here's another example of how to install Grub-
http://askubuntu.com/questions/74761...y-install-grub

If that doesn't work, download Grub 2 at the bottom of this page.
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...rive-with-grub

Let us know if your able to boot into Debian.

zoelee4 · 09-25-2016, 12:22 AM

I figured it out! Thank you so much!

Ztcoracat · 09-25-2016, 01:03 AM

That's great news! zoelee4-

You're Welcome:-

What did you end up doing to get Grub to boot?

zoelee4 · 09-25-2016, 10:52 AM

I think I installed it wrong once and it got really messed up, so I did

Code:

apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi

and then followed the debian website tutorial and it worked!

Ztcoracat · 09-26-2016, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoelee4

I think I installed it wrong once and it got really messed up, so I did

Code:

apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi

and then followed the debian website tutorial and it worked!

Good:-
Thanks for the details.