Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I had some issues while booting with proprietary drivers getting stuck at "Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen", but after reading some threads on here decided to go ahead with the open source drivers and update the kernel after install, but the install keeps failing.
The error message:
Installation Failed
The installer failed to create partition on disk 'Hitachi ....'
Details:
Create a new partition (280.93 GiB, btrfs) on ‘/dev/sda’
Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/sda’
Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/sda
Job: Set the label on partition ‘/dev/sda1’ to "root"
Partition table of partition ‘/dev/sda1’ does not support setting names. Job ignored.
Job: Create file system ‘btrfs’ on partition ‘/dev/sda1’
Command: mkfs.btrfs --force /dev/sda1
Command: sfdisk --part-type /dev/sda 1 83
Job: Set the file system label on partition ‘/dev/sda1’ to ""
Command: btrfs filesystem label /dev/sda1
garuda-inxi output
System:
Kernel: 5.16.12-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
misobasedir=garuda misolabel=GARUDA_DR460NIZEDGAMING_WHITETAI quiet
systemd.show_status=1 driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
radeon.modeset=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.2 tk: Qt 5.15.3 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z68A-GD55 (MS-7681) v: 4.0
serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 22.3
date: 06/10/2011
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-2500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3791 high: 3792 min/max: 1600/3800 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 3791 2: 3791 3: 3791
4: 3792 bogomips: 26339
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1,DVI-I-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1180 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.0x9.4")
s-diag: 449mm (17.7")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung SyncMaster
serial: <filter> built: 2007 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 89 gamma: 1.35
size: 410x257mm (16.1x10.1") diag: 484mm (19.1") ratio: 16:10 modes:
max: 1440x900 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: NVE4 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.3.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0a class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.12-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 355.86 GiB used: 3.5 MiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545032B9A300
size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: <unknown> type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: C60F
scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: PNY model: USB 3.1 FD
size: 57.77 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown>
type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.59 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 39.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 1140
Info:
Processes: 207 Uptime: 17m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.59 GiB
used: 3.01 GiB (19.3%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1719 lib: 509 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1
default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.13
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'multilib' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'chaotic-aur' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
Garuda (2.5.5-1):
System install date: 2022-03-29
Last full system update: 2022-03-28
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: NetworkManager
Windows dual boot: <superuser required>
Snapshots: Snapper
Failed units: bluetooth-autoconnect.service snapper-cleanup.service
McFly: Importing shell history for the first time. This may take a minute or two...done.
What I've tried:
- rerunning the install wizard
- erased and partitioned the drive
** this may be the problem. Can't seem to get the drive to format as GPT