Unable to Install PM8 on Acer ES1-533-P4PA -(Solved)

[rajeev2631007]

Hi All,

I'm trying to install PM8 on Acer ES1-533-P4PA. I had disable Secure Boot option into the BIOS (Boot Mode:UEFI). After that I had able to boot from PM8 Pen Drive. And Created given below Partition:-

EFI Partition 250 M.B
swap Partition 8 GB
/ Partition 20 GB
/home Partition rest of HDD Space

Select Boot loader Partition EFI

During Installation I got given below error.

The Grub-installation failed
The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into/target/.without the Grub boot loader,the installed system will not boot.

After that installation crashed. Please help me out why this issue is happening.

Regards,

Rajeev Gautam

[PCNetSpec]

From the liveUSB, what's the output from:

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sudo fdisk -l

and

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sudo blkid

[rajeev2631007]

Thanks for your reply.

here the result of fdisk and blkid.

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peppermint@peppermint ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 1.1 GiB, 1217847296 bytes, 2378608 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 19FEF300-4BA1-45B4-94C0-DD65F474A499

Device        Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048    1050623    1048576   512M EFI System
/dev/sda2   1050624   59643903   58593280    28G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  59643904   75268095   15624192   7.5G Linux swap
/dev/sda4  75268096 1953523711 1878255616 895.6G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdb: 7.6 GiB, 8110768128 bytes, 15841344 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1ea9d2de

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *     2048 15841343 15839296  7.6G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Disk /dev/zram0: 472 MiB, 494886912 bytes, 120822 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/zram1: 472 MiB, 494886912 bytes, 120822 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/zram2: 472 MiB, 494886912 bytes, 120822 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/zram3: 472 MiB, 494886912 bytes, 120822 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
peppermint@peppermint ~ $ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="6751-3F73" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="36aff681-93d7-411b-ab0e-8ae79c98121d"
/dev/sda2: UUID="3a3188ec-b718-4a09-a926-9fbeacc49469" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a7932b3d-2a32-47df-8940-a4c1f7d4ebb8"
/dev/sda4: UUID="8a7908c3-7b88-4a99-abb5-2e57ceb90292" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7aa50633-9008-487a-9597-670336fd5bed"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="PEPPERMINT" UUID="503F-D2E1" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="1ea9d2de-01"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda3: UUID="dabcebdf-d3e1-4817-a642-dc1d2ba7a838" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="a6010bdd-6bca-4717-b25d-c13a4f5e3a37"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2015-09-04-01-05-26-00" LABEL="Peppermint Six" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="2f20f995" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/zram0: UUID="2faa33f0-af24-4e20-8c60-2d7c3ce7e05c" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram1: UUID="489b205b-6e65-4f34-b8a8-7ad990be15e4" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram2: UUID="0230df36-0429-47f8-8b55-ece0e4e4369b" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram3: UUID="1cfa7c37-5f5d-4019-b883-89c7a8e90b5f" TYPE="swap"

Regards,

Rajeev Gautam

[pin]

Hi!
Have a look here, https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/471754/acer-aspire-es-15-es1-533-c3uw-legacy-bios-missing
There seems to be a solution... not a straight forward one but, a solution.

EDIT: Obviously, I can not test this. If you feel unsure for any reason, wait for PCNetSpec opinion.

[PCNetSpec]

[EDIT]

Actually you'd probably be better off reading pins link before doing this .. it seems the ES1's might have a weird EFI system that requires extra steps.

In particular, this comment
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/480966/#Comment_480966

[END EDIT]

Loads of people seem to have problems with GRUB on these Acer ES1's:
https://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=13306.0

Try this .. boot to the Peppermint 8 64bit LiveUSB, and run these commands in sequence

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sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

then

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sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

then

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for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

then

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sudo chroot /mnt

then

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grub-install /dev/sda

then

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update-grub

then hit Ctrl+D to exit the chroot environment.

Reboot to test.

[rajeev2631007]

Hi PCNetSpec,

Thanks for you kind help. I had returned back this model to vendor. You're right it has some issue with BIOS and efi system.

Thanks,

Rajeev Gautam

[PCNetSpec]

For anyone else reading this who has an ES1, you might find this topic useful (if somewhat long and winding).
https://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=13306.0

It was eventually solved, but it was one heck of a rigmarole.