Hello guys, I know there are a lot of topics about this but I have checked on all of them but there isnt a single one addressing the issue on a Macbook Air 2015. I tried most of the solutions but non seem to work for me, when I install Linux Mint it works nine, but both Garuda Dragonized and Cinnamon bring the same error.
The installation command
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Garuda --force
returned error code 1
No idea if you found it already nor if it's helpful: Okay so EFI is broken or what? -- TD;DR: try the gaming edition.
Welcome 
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System:
Kernel: 6.0.2-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
misobasedir=garuda misolabel=GARUDA_CINNAMON_TALON quiet
systemd.show_status=1 ibt=off systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 5.4.12 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: Mutter vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookAir7,2 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 v: Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-937CB26E2E02BB01 v: MacBookAir7,2
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 430.120.6.0.0 date: 03/16/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 51.0 Wh (97.7%) condition: 52.2/54.3 Wh (96.0%)
volts: 8.4 min: 7.6 model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: full cycles: 86
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-5250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
gen: core 5 level: v3 note: check built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1210 high: 2700 min/max: 500/2700 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 840 2: 2700 3: 801
4: 500 bogomips: 12799
Flags: avx avx2 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
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 6000 vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-8 process: Intel 14nm built: 2014-15 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1626
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.00x9.37")
s-diag: 449mm (17.69")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Apple Color LCD built: 2015 res: 1440x900 hz: 60
dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 286x179mm (11.26x7.05") diag: 337mm (13.3")
ratio: 16:10 modes: 1440x900
Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:160c class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:9ca0
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Broadcom 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1570 class-ID: 0480
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.2-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.59 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Apple
driver: wl v: kernel modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:43a0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: dormant mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: enp0s20u2 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) type: USB
driver: rndis_host v: kernel bus-ID: 1-2:9 chip-ID: 04e8:6863
class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Device-2: Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-3.3:7 chip-ID: 05ac:828f class-ID: fe01
Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 127.84 GiB used: 6 GiB (4.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Apple model: SSD SM0128G
size: 113 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3A0Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB model: USB Flash size: 14.84 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 1100 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: 7.67 GiB used: 1.06 GiB (13.9%)
priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C pch: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 242 Uptime: 2h 25m wakeups: 4 Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 3.64 GiB
(47.4%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1223 libs: 307
tools: paru Shell: fish v: 3.5.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.22
warning: database file for 'garuda' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
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 (2.6.8-1):
System install date: 2022-11-03
Last full system update: 2022-11-03 ↻
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: NetworkManager
Windows dual boot: <superuser required>
Snapshots: Snapper
Failed units: snapper-cleanup.service
There is no
Gaming version for Cinnamon. 
Let me download it and try. Thank you.
Wrong assumption perhaps (we know assumption is the mother of all screwups) but I assumed that was an option. 
I have actually downloaded both of then and booted, they do bring the same error, I am now downloading the gaming edition as per a solution for one person using a macbook.
It could be that --removable should be used there. See:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mac#Using_the_native_Apple_boot_loader_with_GRUB
I think you could try chrooting from the live USB into your installed system (should be there after your last attempt, grub installation should be the last step) and give a:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Garuda --removable
Before that, make sure that your EFI System Partition is mounted on /boot/efi, of course. E.g.
mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
The ESP (/dev/sda1 in the example) could be found with:
parted -l | grep -iE "^Disk /|esp" | grep -B1 esp
When I run this command
mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
This is what I get, I even tried re-partitioning the drive multiple times
mount: /boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call
When I run
sudo parted -l | grep -iE "^Disk /|esp" | grep -B1 esp
I get
Disk /dev/sda: 121GB
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.9GB
2 4309MB 4313MB 4194kB primary esp
can someone just remote assist me please because I am probably doing something wrong and not realizing because I am a newbie in Linux.
Have you been able to chroot, either with the relevant button in the Garuda welcome or with this tutorial?
If so, when inside chroot, check that /boot/efi directory exists. If not, create it. Then /dev/sda1 is ok to be mounted there.
Wait, the method above is valid if you still have a partition where you tried installing but the process failed at the end. If you deleted your btrfs partition, that won’t apply.
Same story. Looks like imma just give up and return to Mint because even the Gaming edition does the same thing.
Why don't we go back to basics...
Ive been trying different methods and this is happening now...
when I mount the path below it works
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi/
and also when I run
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Garuda --removable
I get
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
But then when I unmount and restart the laptop it does not show any available OS on the boot menu so it doesn't boot up. What am I missing?
You should try
sudo update-grub
I have rebooted and it opened the grub menu..
I followed the steps to select the boot drive. Now it is telling me :
You need to load the kernel first
There was no Garuda option to be selected?
You could try chrooting again and give a
pacman -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers
But there’s probably still something wrong…
I saw on some other forum they suggested..
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic root=/dev/sda1 ro
Is there a version of that, that can work for me.
I think that stuff is needed when you drop into an emergency shell, not in this case.
I see now and agree with the comment of @Bro or even start from scratch: download a new ISO, verify checksum, burn it one the USB possibly with Ventoy, fast boot and secure boot disabled in the BIOS, boot ISO and install.
If I can give you also a general advice, I suggest you always make clear in your posts what you have done, provide the relevant input and output whenever possible (eg when in terminal or chroot), otherwise it becomes difficult to follow and understand the actions and what's going on.
Okay so let me recap. I have 3 iso images, dragonized, gaming edition and cinnamon. I've been using usb image writer from my linux mint v20 to create a bootable usb.
so all the versions when show the same above error, with I realize that its caused by the default installation command
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Garuda --force
so after the installation fails I mount run the fish command line
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
after successful mounting I run this command
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Garuda --removable
which gives me the results
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Then I reboot and it boots up to GNU Grub 2:2, when I type in the boot command it returns an error: you need to select kernel first.
I tried following the steps for manually fixing the grub which involved
ls
set root=
insmod normal
normal
But then when it comes to selecting the kernel I get stuck.
I really want to install this linux that is why i've been trying relentlessly. even
sudo update-grub
returns
/usr/bin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `overlay'.
I know its probably stupid but I was wondering if there is a way we could just modify the iso so that it comes with the --removable command instead of the --force
I appreciate your time. Thank you.