1 (edited by Eridanus7 2022-01-28 15:28:56)

Topic: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Hi, This is really just a note for developers, as it may help.

Machine Acer A314-22-R0DD
EFI BIOS  InsydeH20  (Ver 1.14)

Cannot boot live-1.3.1-1-amd64, however Mint 20.1 will boot.
The EFI BIOS lists Mint live as Linpus lite.

GParted is not alone Clonezilla 2.8.1-12 will not boot either.

However, an old copy will 

clonezilla-live-20170220-yakkety-amd64
This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command:
ocs-iso -n a -s --extra-boot-param quiet components -y 6.03 -i 20170220-yakkety-amd64
File date is;- Mon 20 Feb 2017 08:23:34 GMT

This is also listed as Linpus lite as was the very recent Mint 20.1.

Will continue to fiddle with  Bios and report back if I have any success.

Any helpful comments would be appreciated.

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Re: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Further info;
Fast Boot was, of course, OFF
Live-1.3.1-1-amd64 will not boot when Secure Boot Mode is OFF.

The Acer uses a Hynix M.2 NVMe SSD. (HFM256GDJTNI-82A0A)

A working Linux reports all 256GB available to format.

The Acer comes with an empty SODIMM slot, to which 8GB was added. There must be 4GB of soldered ram on the mother board but could not identify ram chips with just the bottom cover removed, so the 4GB must be on the mother board underside.

Win & Linux both report 12GB RAM, 2GB min is reserved for the Radon graphics and it can use more if required.

CPU is Ryzen 3 3250U

Mint 20.3 ISO boots, still listed as Linpus lite.

I now have a question.

What was the last GParted version that used the same Linpus boot system ?

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Re: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

This should help with your memory question.  command to check RAM slots in motherboard?

Both:

sudo lshw -class memory
sudo dmidecode -t memory

Report size, manufacturer and part number of RAM.

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Re: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Many thanks for those cmds mfleetwo (fleetwood mac fan?)
I really must read the MAN pages more carefully!

Mint 20.1 Live ISO has GParted as one of it's programs, and gnome-disks.

Once in Mint 20.1 I ran inxi which returned;-

:~$ sudo inxi -m
Memory:
  RAM: total: 9.73 GiB used: 632.4 MiB (6.4%) 
  Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB note: slots: 2 EC: None 
  Device-1: DIMM 0 size: 8 GiB speed: 2887 MT/s 
  Device-2: DIMM 0 size: 4 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s 

Your cmds were better.

It appears that;-
"Acer Aspire Notebook 3 Series A314-22" has 2 (1 not upgradeable) Memory Slots. Each slot has a max memory limit of 6GB which gives a combined max memory of 12GB (up to 8GB in user accessible slot) for the machine."

Must be a strange DIMM slot that is not upgradable! I suspect the 4GB is soldered on the Mobo and is just reported as a DIMM slot.

I managed to find a cheap branded 8GB RAM not quite optimum (performance wise) but good enough for for what is required - a cheap general purpose laptop, no gaming.
So I bought that before prices go silly.

Installed Mint 20.3 and I must say it runs quite well (with secure boot "on")

Thanks for your time.

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Re: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Tried live-1.3.1-1-amd64 on MSI B450I (7A40) mch. American Megatrends uEFI.

Worked fine.

So I guess the problem here is confined to the InsydeH20 (Ver 1.14) SW

I might, given time, backtrack older versions to see if I can find the latest GParted version that works with InsydeH20. If there is a lot I can always bisect to minimise the trials.

Might help ID a change that stopped it working with this particular uEFI.

B.T.W clonezilla-live-20170220-yakkety-amd64 worked on the above mch also but not with InsydeH20 uEFI.

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Re: [SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Problem SOLVED.

The way I created the USB was part of the problem.

I download the ISO, verify it and write it to a FAT32 USB using the Mint 20.3 provided "USB Image Writer"

 mintstick -m iso

This has worked OK on numerous Legacy & GPT/uEFI systems (and on an MSI B450I (7A40) mch.
American Megatrends uEFI)

The working USB stick followed the Clonzilla method;-

https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-setup

to install live.zip on a USB flash drive.

Note: to install to a USB flash drive the .zip file was used along with "pmount"

"pmount" is a program, you can run: sudo apt install pmount to install it.  (Debian derivatives)

With thanks to Steven_Shiau @ Clonezilla