Installation on VB does not start

pimpoli · June 1, 2024, 10:53am

Yes. I think is a Calamares’ bug, because I tried with Calam-Arch-Installer-2024-06 and there is the same issue… Could you use the previous version of Calamares, used in Endeavour OS “Galileo” that was fine?

pimpoli · June 1, 2024, 2:01pm

No. I try on VM EndeavourOS in order to install it on a real machine wehere there is already a mint installation on dualboot. On VM there is only EndeavourOS!

pimpoli · June 1, 2024, 2:03pm

So I have to install Eos in English and then change it to Italian? And how?

joekamprad · June 1, 2024, 2:08pm

Set Locale manually:

su
echo "it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
localectl set-locale LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
localectl set-keymap --no-convert it

dalto · June 1, 2024, 2:17pm

There is an upstream Calamares issue that impacts BIOS installs on VirtualBox.

You can work around this issue in a variety of ways:

Change your VM settings to use EFI
Use a different virtualization software

pimpoli · June 1, 2024, 2:26pm

because this is a “test” for a real installation on a real machine with partition table MBR, I cannot change the setting on VM, it would be useless.
I could try to install on the real machine and hope that the bug is only on VB… or in alternative I could install the previous version (Galeleo), that runs fine, as long as EoS a rolling release…
Where I can download old versions of EndeavourOS?

dalto · June 1, 2024, 2:29pm

You would have to do an offline install if you find an older ISO. Online installs are not supported from older ISOs because packaging changes all the time.

joekamprad · June 1, 2024, 3:02pm

they are on the mirrors:

github.com

endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/blob/master/endeavouros-mirrorlist/endeavouros-mirrorlist

######################################################
####                                              ####
###        EndeavourOS Repository Mirrorlist       ###
####                                              ####
######################################################
#### Entry in file /etc/pacman.conf:
###     [endeavouros]
###     SigLevel = PackageRequired
###     Include = /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist
######################################################
### Tip: Use the 'eos-rankmirrors' program to rank
###      these mirrors or re-order them manually.
######################################################

## Belgium
Server = https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch

## China
Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.jlu.edu.cn/endeavouros/repo/$repo/$arch

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per example:

https://mirror.alpix.eu/endeavouros/iso

pimpoli · June 1, 2024, 3:17pm

Perhaps, I solved…
Simply, in the installation procedure the first time I chose to install GRUB on root (/), I pressed “next”, I went back (“previous”) and this time I selected /dev/sda. The again “next” and on the resume first to start the installation correctly: “Install GRUB on /dev/sda”.
Once installed, I restarted and all was fine!
I tried with Calam-Arch-Installer-2024-06, this evening I’ll try with EndeavourOs and I’ll let you know how it ends!

joekamprad · June 2, 2024, 7:41pm

the underlaying issue / Bug is somehow random.

Mulder · August 9, 2025, 12:17pm

THE (EASY) SOLUTION: PATIENCE!

I had the same problem: when I started the virtual machine with EndeavourOS, the boot menu came up, then codes were running down - but then: black screen.

I checked several forum threads (like this) and tried different settings (like 3D acceleration etc.), but what helped in the end was simply waiting!

As I already wanted to give up (none of my attempts to change settings etc. seemed to work) and left the laptop and black screen besides me (while reading some WhatsApp), suddenly and unexpectedly the beautiful “Desktop” (?) of EndeavourOS showed up within my VirtualBox.

So forget about all the proposed complicated solutions, before you haven’t waited for the black screen to potentially disappear (after around 5 long minutes of waiting…).

Btw, I used a several years old laptop (Windows 10, SSD, but quite simple) and I made some of the standard settings for the VM within VirtualBox, but I think these changes were not relevant (for ex. I increased the used CPU from 1 to 2, RAM to 4096, I enabled 3D acceleration and then increased graphic memory to 256mb).

Hope this helps and that you’ll be pleased as I was, after patience had helped!