Hello everyone, My name is Sumod and I am absolutely new to the Linux community.
Garuda Linux is my first trial dip into the world of Linux distributions.
I tried to install Garuda Linux (as Dual Boot) onto my Dell Vostro desktop
.......... that is running Windows 10, has Bios mode of "Legacy", Hard Disk Volume property of "MBR", 4 GB RAM and 1TB Hard Drive.
The 1 TB hard disk presently has the below mentioned partitions...
System Reserved 500 MB
C: 194.82 GB NTFS
E: 486.20 GB NTFS
250.00 GB Unallocated
Attempting to install Garduda Linux from a bootable USB, I reached as far as the disk partitioning where after I created the "swap" partition I got a prompt saying more than 4 primary partitions are not allowed on a MBR Hard Drive..
What do I do now?
Have been researching on the web from 2 days now and not able to find anything .. I am not that tech savy ...sorry!!
Kindly assist and let me know if any more information is required from my side.
I'm assuming you want to keep Windows. If that is the case then when you get to the partition section select replace a partition and then click on the free space. You should be good to go. Let Garuda automatically do the rest from there. I believe with Zram you really don't need either a swap partition or swap file. foregoing the swap partition will solve your issue.
Hi guys ... I tried to install Garuda Linux in the 250GB unallocated space as logical partitions in the extended partition, but I got an install error that the Boot loader was not able to install.
So I deleted the /boot/efi (fat34) partition and created a /boot (fat34) partition and this time it told me Gradua Linux boot loader needs to be installed in a /boot/efi partition ...
So I thought I'll come back here and ask about it but I find that my Windows bootloader was corrupted during the process ..
What do I do now ... My HDD is in MBR format and BIOS is operating on Legacy mode.
Do I need a try a version that is can be installed with /boot or /legacyboot partitions?
Please assist
Again see below. If you do what I suggested instead of pretending I didn't post Garuda will install to you free space and create what it needs to boot in your current boot partition.
I am trying to get a hang of the technical requirements and workings of the Garuda installation, hence went with the manual installation method.
Also the above mentioned post does not address the bootloader issue...
Can you assure that the Garuda Linux will install without issue using the "replace a partition" method given that the warning msg I received said "Garuda needs a /boot/efi partition to install the Garuda bootloader"
Once again the specs of my system are given below
Dell Vostro desktop running Windows 10, has Bios mode of "Legacy",
Hard Disk Volume farmatted as "MBR", (was informed by the technician who fixed the "bootloader not found issue" for Windows 10 after my first attempt to install Garuda that a bootloader requiring /boot/efi partition cannot be installed on MBR formatted HDD)
4 GB RAM
The 1 TB hard disk presently has the below mentioned partitions...
Will make another attempt with "replace partition method" once I'm confident the issue I just faced does not strike again...
The other option I know of is to run Garuda Linux off of an external SSD/HHD. But that requires additional investment hence holding off on that for now.
Thanks c00ter!!! .. Would you be kind enough to share the live steps ..
What approach do you propose? Replace Partition or Manual Partition
Keep in mind that it's a MBR format HDD that got corrupted when I used Manual Partition approach
This is what happened on my first attempt
In the 250 GB Extended Partition I created
1GB /boot/efi partition - Logical - Fat34
8 GB swap partition - Logical - linuxswap
30 GB root partitoin - Logical - btrfs
Remaining as home partition - Logical - btrfs
I got the error that "/boot/efi section failed to install".
So thinking that it's because of my HDD not supporting /efi I tried changing the first logical partition to 1GB /boot partition - Fat34 but even before the installation started I got the message that /boot/efi partition is required to install Garuda Raptor Eagle
So I decided to do a little more research, removed the USB and restarted the system but the windows bootloader was corrupted.
Spent money to get that fixed so now I would really like to be sure of the path I walk..
Please assist
You can ignore the error message. Once the install starts Garuda will tell you it's creating that partition, but it's actually just adding it's boot information to that partition. I've don't this TOO many times to even count.
BluishHumility I believe that is just the default message at that point irregardless of MBR or GPT.