Post #1661207

Yay! My laptop is finally booting from it's SSD from Linux (instead of the live usb only)! 🥳 This has taken about 3 install attempts: 1) First one I made the mistake of trying to set up a manual GPT setup on what was apparently a legacy BIOS that could only support MBR and MBR only (presumably... or I stuffed it up, and only after wasting *ages* grovelling over the partition sizes in MiB vs MB/GB) 2) Second time, I tried doing a MBR one with multiple partitions again. This time sticking the root one first. Again that failed. (Or maybe I still did stick in a "bios-grub" one at the start, which is again where it fell down)... Should I ave mounted that as "/boot" to get it to work? Or selected something else? 3) This last time, I gave up and just let it use the "Erase Disk" option, which generated a single partition (ugh... I do want my homedir separate from the OS stuff!). That finally worked. Then I just had to copy the ".config" and a bunch of other data dirs from the liveusb config I'd set up, *AND REBOOT* after that to seemingly get back the config I'd set up there... At this point, I may just leave it at this, until trying to reinstall the LTS over the top after checking it works stably for my machines... But still, 1/3 "current" Windows machines is now converted now!