Installation completes but GRUB doesn't show an entry to boot into the newly installed system
blendOS.iso downloaded from Master Build Server mirror (4636db55) on 2024-06-24
Loaded on a USB drive with sudo dd if="blendOS.iso" of="/dev/sda" bs=4M status=progress as per the installation guide (https://blendos.co/install/normal-pc/#flash-a-usb)
Booted on a UEFI system.
Ran the installer, target is NVMe drive /dev/nvme1n1.
On first attempt, installation fails instantly as the drive has an existing partition and the installer is incapable (bug?) of simply wiping the selected drive on its own.
Second attempt after wiping clean the drive with GParted and rebooting for good measure, the install wizard finishes seemingly successfully (although literally all repo mirror urls seem to have failed?)
Rebooted and entered UEFI's Boot Menu
Selected new boot entry.
GRUB menu only shows the "UEFI Firmware Settings" option, nothing else.
New /boot partition isn't empty (as opposed to some other tickets here), there's the /boot/grub folder with all the grub files, and in /boot/EFI there's blend/grubx64.efi and BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.
Running grub-mkconfig in chroot does nothing.Solution:Jump to solution
I guess it won't be possible to install the distro unless the mirror is back up, seems the iso is just not ready for public use yet
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The mirror URL failure probably means it did not work
Please check that you can access https://cloudflaremirrors.com/archlinux/core/os/x86_64
You can also try a redownload
Rebuilds happen
Without a version change
There’s the issue
Happens to a lot of people, means a worker failed
It might be trying to point to a mirror that’s down
Rudra said he’d let people change the install mirror and never did that
Do I just keep running the installer ad infinitum until it doesn't die?
It only checks that one
Refresh the mirror page ad infinitum
Once it works try the installer again :trollge:
In all seriousness you can try reaching out to cloudflare about it
They operate the service
Solution
I guess it won't be possible to install the distro unless the mirror is back up, seems the iso is just not ready for public use yet