On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:11:37PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-08-13 11:47 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > Thx to Polyna especially, for telling me that I have x86-64 machine. Do > > not yet know x86 part but 64bit it certainly is. > > In Mint 32bit i686 still. but now > > I know a little bit (!) more about this machine, how chmod is not wise > > to use, etc. Kinda fun, cos Mint lets me in again. So far. > > My Mini PC Windows 10 128GB SSD is in the customs here (been there 6 > > weeks..), great. Hope I can use the screen on this for a week or two.. > Earlier you said you are running a computer based on Mac ? > > Wasn't the case ? > > It's hard to follow this thread... > > > I will surely stay in Mint, that is without root, chroot, chmod etc > > until I have a tiny clue what all this is doing with my computer. Wild > > child still, weird. > > Gunnar > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 09:45, Keith Bainbridge <keithr...@gmail.com > > <mailto:keithr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 13/8/21 18:15, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > > I tried to partition with rEFInd because Linux Mint 19 i386 xfce > > 32bit > > > worked with EFI. In hope to upgrade to x86-64bit. After it looked > > like > > > all good, I went out, thinking it was OK. But installation came > > back to > > > start, asking me to choose put boot in Mbr, Partition with Gparted or > > > Abort. Mbr resulted in warning. Gparted offered grub bios, took that, > > > result was root in /target > > > instead of in /dev/sda1 > > > Now: > > > lsblk > > > sda1 148G part / > > > sda3 999M part > > > > > > Looks okay; > > > sda1 as root > > > sda3 as swap > > > > > > Better I try boot > > > Then see what happens. > > > (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can). > > > BR, > > > Gunnar > > > > > > Gunnar > > > > I suggest you stick with Mint until you get a better understanding of > > how things work. > > > > > > Try testing in virtual machine > > > > -- > > All the best > > > > Keith Bainbridge > > > > keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com <mailto:keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com> > > > > -- > Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside > -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development >
>From what I recall: Gunnar has an old (2006/2007) macbook with intel core duo, 3GB of RAM and an SSD he's put in himself. Macs of that age had difficulty reading some CD media (because of difficulty with the El Torito format??) . There is specific Mac media under amd64 (so 64 bit) CPU to deal with this fact. The transition period for when Macs could read "normal" media is around that time, I think, so this is a special case. The CD team don't have the hardware to test this specific image, as far as I know. I seem to recall that Gunnar may hve more than that - he may have a later Macbook undergoing repair. Gunnar: Please try with the mac specific amd64 image, I've pointed you to in other threads, else try with the standard amd64 image. Getting 32 bit media to run badly is no great help. ReFind is definitely _not_ recommended. Please simplify this to one install that works, maybe. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
