Trisquel 9 Graphical Iso and Netinstall
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Hi everyone, I've tried installing both the GUI and Netinstall versions of Trisquel 9.0 however I am unable to boot into either. I'm currently typing this post on a Tails Live USB that I have for situations just like this. Can anyone help me install Trisquel 9.0 netinstall or GUI? I need Ubuntu 18.04 for a program.
I currently have the netinstall on the USB as downloading the larger iso over TOR seems to be infeasible.
> I currently have the netinstall on the USB as downloading the larger iso
> over TOR seems to be infeasible.
And you can't boot into the netinstall? Do you have a working Trisquel
8 system? If so, you can try upgrading to Trisquel 9. In
/etc/apt/sources.list, replace every instance of "flidas" with "etiona"
and run
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
I currently do not have a working OS on the computer. When trying to boot into the hard drive I got an error message “failed to boot both default and fallback entries” I couldn’t get the entire message because it timed out.
After that I’m stuck in the libreboot menu. The netinstall can’t be accessed by Parse Isolinux (usb) so I chose the ‘Search for GRUB configuration outside of CBFS’ then I load config from (usb0). Everything is smooth and I can connect to wifi, set the date and time, name of computer etc... when I come to the kernel choosing part I chose the default option ‘Linux-generic’ or something along those lines. I did not have a problem like you specified in your post where you linked the netinstaller. You said that during the installation an error might occur. I’ve had no such error and the installation finishes just fine. It says that it’s going to restart and that I should remove the cd/floppy (Lol) from which I am installing from. I did that and I received the first error when trying to boot.
Am I missing something to do with grub?
> When trying to boot into the hard drive I got an error message “failed
> to boot both default and fallback entries” I couldn’t get the entire
> message because it timed out.
Does another error appear immediately before?
No other errors appear, after pressing the power button. The Libreboot screen is seen for a lil bit then it automatically chooses ‘Load Operating System’ and then says ‘’Failed to boot both default and fallback entries.’
Then it says press any key to continue to take me back to the libreboot main screen
> The Libreboot screen is seen for a lil bit then it automatically
> chooses ‘Load Operating System’ and then says ‘’Failed to boot both
> default and fallback entries.’ Then it says press any key to continue
> to take me back to the libreboot main screen
Something important is likely missing. I was hoping the error would
tell us what (grub, kernel, etc.) because when I did a search for your
error message I found examples where it is preceded my a message about
what was missing. That's okay. Boot into a live cd, and run
$ lsblk
and you'll see some output resembling this:
sda 8:0 0 477G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 18.6G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda6 8:6 0 444.3G 0 part /home
sdb 8:16 1 7.5G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 7.5G 0 part /media/chaosmonk/2e553bc4-d289-4a3c-908
Either sda will be your hard drive and sdb will be the USB drive, or the
other way around. Look at the sizes to figure out which is which. Then
look at the sizes of each partition on sda or sdb to figure out which is
the root partition.
In the following commands I am going to assume that sda is your hard
drive and that the root partition is sda1, but yours might be different,
so don't copy/paste blindly.
First run
$ sudo su
to become root for the rest of the commands.
# mkdir -p /mnt/chroot
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/chroot
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/chroot
# mount -o bind /run /mnt/chroot
# mount -t proc none /mnt/chroot
# cp /etc/hosts /mnt/chroot/etc/hosts
# cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/chroot/etc/resolv.conf
# chroot /mnt/chroot
This will take you into a chroot session, in which you can run commands
as root on your Trisquel system. Now we can take a look around.
Run
# apt list --installed | grep linux
and
# apt list --installed | grep grub
and paste the results here so we can see if you are missing any kernel
or grub packages. Also, to be safe, run
# sudo apt install trisquel
and see if that adds any packages (or sudo apt install trisquel-mini if
you attempted to install trisquel-mini).
When you're done, run
$ exit
to exit the chroot and return to your Tails root session, and unmount
everything we mounted earlier
# umount -R /mnt/chroot
(rebooting or shutting down will also unmount everything.)
I don’t think that I can enter a live cd environment with the netinstall, should I download the graphical iso for this? Or should I be booting into live usb tails and then inserting the Trisquel usb and managing it through a terminal in tails?
edit:
Upon asking my brother for use of his Windows pc, he told me that he found a USB with files like 'boot' on it. So i plug it into my computer and its linux mint... I can download the graphical iso as well or follow the chroot method using this. I could even redownload trisquel 8. I will try and use the instructions that you gave using the linux mint usb instead and also I am downloading a trisquel 9 graphical iso just as a backup.
Also how could I determine which partition is the root partition? should it be the largest? During the partition of the install onto the ssd using the netinstall usb I partitioned it using LVM and encryption so that it fills the empty space. So then would the largest partition of the ssd be the root partition?
Sorry to plague you with questions!
> I don’t think that I can enter a live cd environment
> with the netinstall, should I download the graphical
> iso for this?
I thought you weren't able to download the graphical ISO.
> Or should I be booting into live usb
> tails and then inserting the Trisquel usb and managing
> it through a terminal in tails?
Yes, I was suggesting you use Tails. Note that since chrooting requires
root privileges, you'll need to set and administrator password when
starting Tails.
Nevermind! I was able to reinstall the Trisquel 9 netinstall and did not use LVM this time. I am able to see my computer name on tty1. This means I am able to execute commands and install a DE. Thank you so much for helping but it seems LVM was the perpetrator.
> Nevermind! I was able to reinstall the Trisquel 9 netinstall and did not
> use LVM this time. I am able to see my computer name on tty1. This means
> I am able to execute commands and install a DE. Thank you so much for
> helping but it seems LVM was the perpetrator.
Cool, I'm glad you have it working now.
> I currently have the netinstall on the USB as downloading the larger iso
> over TOR seems to be infeasible.
If you don't require anonymity and are only using Tails because it's
what you have that's bootable, I think Tails has an "Unsafe Browser"
which connects to the clearnet. When using Tails for anonymity the only
purpose of this browser is to deal with captive portals, but if you
don't need to be anonymous you might be able to just use it like a
regular browser.
I know of this but apparently the clearnet browser is like firejailed so anything that you download is inaccessible from the main file browser.
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