UEFI troubles on ASUS Chromebook
I'm having issues booting into bazzite on my ASUS Chromebook C202SA (It's an Intel 64 bit device, several years past EOL, and on the lower end of the lineup)
The installer ran pretty cleanly, and it wasn't until afterwards that I encountered issues
The OS does not boot into bazzite, instead giving me this error
Transcript:
Upon pressing a key, it gives me a shell which is unrelated to bazzite, and I'm allowed to exit back to the UEFI settings.
I am unsure what to do from here, and would like help figuring out how to get it to boot.
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Are you booting the installer ISO or a completed installation?
A completed installation
Is there a boot from file or similar option provided by your BIOS?
yes
is there a specific file i should attempt to boot from?
Try
EFI/Fedora/shimx64.efican't find any such path
Do you have a live Linux USB?
The bazzite installer can do
yes
Try booting into it and
fdisk the drive with the installation
When the anaconda screen shows up Ctrl-Alt-F2 into a terminalok. i'm there
Try
blkid firstok
Does the output mention
EFI somewhere?line 2 mentions EFI-SYSTEM
Something like
/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI" LABEL="EFI" UUID="4BD1-65E0" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="6977277b-ea6d-4c2b-979b-15a1cb3ada6b"?
nope
Like how different is it? TYPE?
Is that an SD card?
Oh wait emmc probably
yeah, i'm trying to run it on an sd card because the main drive is only 16gb
i totally spaced on mentioning that earlier
Installing on SD card is generally unsupported afaik
Booting from SD card is rarely implemented anywhere
ok
It may help if you can set up the bootloader on the internal drive, but that's still uncharted territory
i'll see what i can do then
because i did have ubuntu on this sdcard back when the laptop was in full use
but that was also back before i fucked with the bootloader, so who knows anymore
bazzite is way more IO heavy when doing updates than ubuntu and any other distro because it is atomic.
it will kill that poor sdcard in no time, this is why our requirements say SSD only