Hi i am a newb to linux endevour and linux in general this is my first time i have installed linux.
I didn’t have to much trouble getting endevour installed but i just can’t do basic things like get my new 6TB WD drive to partition and run. I ran into drive partition limits and have had to try work out how to make the drive a gpt partition but when i went to mount the file system everything seems to have gone off the rails from there and now i’m not sure what to do. I am currently having to fcdsk fix the drive as it threw an error saying that the drive had a bad super number and needed to be fixed. so once it has finished fixing it i am hoping to be able to make two 3TB drives one for steam games and the other for general files then mount them and then make steam use the games one for games. Does anyone know of any guides that i can follow as i am doing this pretty blind i just don’t want my games on the same drive as the OS because i am sure i will break it and have to start again.
It sounds like you installed your system in Bios (Mbr) mode and not UEFI. Before you go any further as it may be better to reinstall but not until you understand how to. Please first post the following.
Post the url from this command.
inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog
Edit: It would also be helpful to understand exactly how you want to set it up.
If using KDE, the partitionmanager package is a useful graphical utility for managing drives, partitions and to some degree, mounts.
It’s still certainly worth having some understanding of the things mentioned by @manuel of course, but a graphical tool may help ease the transition to Linux.
Keep in mind the OP is a newb to linux. They likely have limited knowledge on partitions and partition schemes. So they may not even know what to create, or what they want and or know the difference or how to do it. Sometimes it’s the lack of understanding how to use the partitioning tools also.
Ok Rick I have posted the inxi for you to have a look at.
I had read that it needed to be in UEFI but in the live installer there wasn’t an option to change it.
So i tried to partition the 6TB drive initially in the partition manager with the GUI on the live boot but that’s when i discovered it wouldn’t split the drive due to the drive size. So i decided to do it via fstab i was able to partition it after the OS was installed. couldn’t be that hard right … the part i had trouble with was assigning it a file system they why of how it was being done it didn’t really make sense. when i got to the doing the chown commands is where i realized i had attached the filesystem to somewhere else and not the drive or only one of the partitions. So when i finally got them assigned properly i had somehow damaged my drive and had to use the dd command to fix it which took ages but it is ok now.
Bink Regular,
I tried to use KDE plasma but every time i logged in all i got was a black screen and after i got that a couple of time i just opted for another desktop environment as i had hear you can change it so i was thought i would do that later once i got a handle on things.
Computer specs are
CPU Ryzen 9 7900x
Mobo Gigabyte x670 aorus elite au
32 gig Kingston fury DDR5 RAM
Running a lian li Galahad 360 infinity AIO
the graphics card it a temporary one it is a Nvidia 1660ti but am saving for a Radeon 7800XT 16gig
had 3 hdds 1 Nvme samsung 980 pro 1 WD black 6TB and 1 1TB SSD which the OS is on.
This comp is for my son he just want to game and watch you tube.
This will be an option in your BIOS. During the very initial stages of boot-up, you’d typically press Del (if a desktop) or something like F2 for a laptop (or sometimes F10, depending on laptops etc).
As a side note, I would like to strongly suggest you take care with all of your steps @Lionfire01. Make sure you have a backup of any important data, on a device that’s not presently connected to this system. This is really important if you’re working to format / repartition, etc. You could very quickly lose everything with a mistep.
Call it habit. What I refer to as the BIOS, is correctly called the UEFI on modern systems as you noted. What I refer to as UEFI (although I didn’t directly), I mean the method of boot, because this is the crux of the difference in a practical sense.
So bringing it back to @ricklinux’s original thought, it seems possible your boot mode is set to Legacy (BIOS), and not UEFI.
You’ll hopefully find these settings in your BIOS/UEFI under boot options. I tried reviewing your motherboard’s manual, but it didn’t cover the BIOS/UEFI settings.
So i did some digging one gigabytes site they state that the bios is nativly in UEFI and when i checked the drive in the bios it said UEFI enabled OS next to the drive. So would that mean that it is in UEFI ?
As i have just rebooted the machine since fixing the disk it has now crashed as it was still trying to access and mount a hdd that has now been completely overridden. I don’t like to assume but have broken the boot sequence now and will have to re install the OS? This system is brand new and has no data that needs preservation. I did this as i knew i would have teething problems as i have only a basic idea of what i have to do from working with windows wich as you know does things differnetly. I just want to set it up so my son can play games and browes the net and learn how to use a computer better while he is at it.
If there’s nothing precious on there, re-installing is a trivial task and provides a clean slate and hopefully a better grasp on the process.
Whether you should or not though, is really up to you.
Do you persist with fixing what you have, which may be a good learning exercise?
Do you start again with a clean slate, with a little more understanding having practised a bit?
Some in the Linux community hold to the principle that things can be fixed, and therefore should, avoiding a re-install. Whilst that is likely true, it does necessitate a good understanding of what to do. For a beginner, a clean slate may be an easy solution.
If you’d prefer to use Plasma, this issue is likely easily fixed with a reinstall. It is probably the most full featured desktop environment, and rather Windows-like to use.
You’d need to make sure you select the Nvidia boot option on the live installer, and the correct Nvidia drivers will automatically be installed and setup on the resulting installation.
You should also select X11 at the login screen instead of Wayland (if it’s the default), as Nvidia and Wayland aren’t getting along just yet, and this may have been the cause of the black screen you encountered. X11 should present no issue there.
I’m all good with doing the reinstall i am just going to run into the same issue i had which is when i had to do the part where you assign the files system and a location to put it is where i came unstuck as one guide said to mount it in this format /mnt/sdb for when i was giving it a place and my file system has it as /dev/sdb so i think i told it to go to the wrong place and then didn’t know how to fix it and i still don’t. i was using to different guides as i couldn’t find a guide that stepped me through the whole process including the UEFI so had to use 2 but they must have been different.
As for Plasma i would really like to use it i reinstalled a couple of times with the same result eveyrtime. I didn’t understand the fix of if it was the fix so i just changed the environment.
do you know of any good guides that i can use to help with making partitions on and mounting them as i am struggling to find out how to do it with the bigger drive.
I was following this video guide for the install but had to deviate from it as he only installs everything in the one drive games included.
I don’t wan’t to do that and my drive i want to use for games was big so i had to learn how to do that mid install. I want to dual boot this on my computer but i need to get this down pact before i go doing that as i will loose alot of data if i mess up that’s why i am practicing on this new build.
here is the guide i used to try get the hdd to stay mounted so i could use it for steam. https://discovery.endeavouros.com/storage-and-partitions/how-to-permanently-mount-external-internal-drives-in-linux/2022/02/
Any guide 1 year or older is probably best to ignore on Arch (arch based) stuff, with the amount of updates and options with an install.
In future before doing anything I would just recommend asking first so people can point you the right way. (Sorry didn’t really read what you wrote, minds a bit crazy rn)
@Lionfire01
First you need to make sure secure boot is turned off in the UEFI Bios and also CSM disabled and that is is in UEFI mode only. This ensures that it doesn’t boot the live ISO in Bios mode. That’s the first thing that matters.
Hey Rick when i put in the command you gave me before the whole thing crashed when i booted it this morning, it said that it sent it to you so i assumed that how it worked. nothing else was displayed. I haven’t started the reload yet as i am taking a break from it as i have been at it pretty solid since saturday so is there a way to still post that info even though i can’t log in but i can still access the terminal once it finishes having a hissy fit.
CSM is off but i know that secure boot is on so i will start with turning that off.
Thanks for the installation link i wish i had found that before i started it would have saved me so much time trying to get the info elsewhere.
