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[–] junezephier@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For whatever reason, when i tried to fresh install lmde 6 two weeks ago, it absolutely refused to set up grub properly for me. Something in the installation just refused to work, despite reformatting and setting up partitions in both the automatic and manual configurations. Hopefully other new users have a smoother time than i did?

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve had that happen on EndeavourOS but it was because of a corrupted ISO. Have you checked checksums?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Was it a uefi thing? In the past 10 years the only fail-to-install issues I have had were related to that.