Installing Neon on Ideapad s205 - Some issues & questions with boot loader

[David Hurka]

Hey, now it works.

In the live system, I have run this to install the boot loader:
$ ubiquity kde_ui
-> Crashed after it did it’s job.

Then, to install the OS:
$ ubiquity --no-bootloader kde_ui
-> Installed KDE Neon without crashing.

Didn’t get an installer icon again. The OS should be fine now, right?

On Monday, 8 April 2019 07:58:22 UTC Thomas Weissel wrote:
> i thought kde neon moved away fron the buggy ubiquity installer to
> calamares??

Not yet in user edition.

> if you want a fully configured image with all applications you will ever
> need preinstalled and a preconfigured calamares installer (and patched
> casper) that circumvents most ubiquity problems with uefi grub
> installations try
> 
> http://life-edu.eu/download.html
> 
> i've run and installed this w/o problems on so many systems i lost count

Didn’t try that, but...

> also i've investigated a similar problem .. i had to specify the location
> of the boot files on every boot..
> in my case a specific part of the grub efi file seemed to be hardcoded to a
> directory called "ubuntu" while my installation put the efi files in a
> folder called "life"  - (kde neon puts those files in a folder called
> "neon" and has implemented a specific switch in a capser file to copy the
> files to the ubuntu folder in case of "neon"... 

Gave me an idea: I have created grub.cfg with grub-mkconfig and copied it to 
several locations in / and the EFI system partition. Now, Grub apparently 
loads one of them, and I directly get the Neon login screen.

> i therefore also patched
> those files in the image to copy the efi files to the "ubuntu" folder
> instead of the "life" folder and ignore the casper and hostname settings
> for this part
> could be related ..
> 
> cheers
> thomas
> 
> David Hurka <david.hurka at mailbox.org> schrieb am Mo., 8. Apr. 2019, 00:20:
> > [...]