Trouble installing Garuda

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Hello, I am a beginner in linux and I have been trying to install Garuda Dragonized for 2 days. Before anything else, I have 1 SSD intended for Linux, 1 NVME where win11 is installed and 1 HDD that is used for storing games installed. I do not have the inxi, I do not know what it is and I do not know how to get it, but once I know, I’ll make sure to share it.

I followed the instructions on the official website to the best of my ability. I tried with Garuda Dragonzied and Garuda XFCE.

I used Ventoy to make a bootable usb key with both images in it. I boot on Ventoy, chose the “grub2” option and the Nvidia driver option in the Garuda “boot menu”. I start the installation process and choose my SSD (which was already set to AHCI) as location for installation. I tried without any partition and with a GPT partition. I chose the “Erase disk” option in both cases. The installation failed around 78% ~ 90% displaying an error message (I cannot post any picture since I am new) “The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command 

grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force /dev/ nvme0n1
returned error code1”.

I tried installing it with manual partitionning (I followed a youtube tutorial to assist me) and the first option (I forgot the name, sorry). The installation worked, but it would not appear in the boot menu, even if I booted on the SSD, I met “no bootable device detected”.

One thing I noticed in the error message of the failed installation is “nvme0n1”. I think the Garuda installer is trying to install itself on my NVME (WD balck…)when I clearly select my SSD (kingston SUV…).

Secure boot is disabled.

Specs:
GPU: RTX 3080 FTW
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Mother board: ASRock X570 Steel Legend Wifi
Storage: 1 NVME 1TB (WD Black SN850), 1 SSD 500GB (Kingston), 1 HDD 500GB (WD)

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Okay the best thing to do is to take your windows drive out and only leave the drive intended for linux in and try installing Garuda again. (after you have successfully installed Garuada reintroduce it again and run garuda-boot to add the Windows 11 option in your grub menu

Also do not use the nvidia option when installing, it will provide you with the option after a successful update after installation.

to give us a inxi simple open up a terminal when you run your Garuda installation and type down garuda-inxi and copy the output and paste edit it into your first post. Thanks.

Also when Garuda is installing your nvidia graphic drivers after the update keep an eye on installation process and watch for errors installing the dkms modules. If you see errors doing them use try below code to fix your issues.

# if you get conflicting packages please uninstall them before trying the code below again. 
#Making sure you reinstall  those packages again after the code below completes successfully.
#  to uninstall type; sudo pacman -R 'the name of the conflicting package'
# to reinstall type; sudo pacman -S 'name of package'
sudo pacman -Sy nvidia-open-dkms egl-wayland lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia nvidia-utils
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Understood, I’ll try that when I come back from this weekend since I have plans for easter. Also, happy easter !

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?

garuda-boot-options

or

sudo update-grub

in terminal?

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Hi there, welcome to the forum.
I think this error is typical when your BIOS is not in UEFI (only) mode.
Try changing that setting, then boot from the live USB and use the tool to reinstall the GRUB.

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