OS uninstallable

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 24/03/2023 17.29, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have just spent about five hours unsuccessfully trying to install each 
> of Linux Mint Mate 21.1, Linux Mint Mate 21, and UbuntuMate 22.04 .
> 
> It goes through the installation process, then terminates with the 
> unintelligible error
> 
> "Unable to install GRUB (as superuser)
> Executing 'grubinstall failed.
> This is a fatal error"
> 
>  From memory, this has been a systemic problem with the installation 
> process - I am not the only one who has suffered from this 
> unintelligible error.
> 
> I have been trying to install on a system with MS Windows 10 installed.
> 
> I have tried installing both with, and, without, creating the required 
> EFI partition.
> 
> I have gone into BIOS, and turned off every security thing that I could 
> find.
> 
> And still, it refuses to install, without any explanation of why.
> 
> Why is it not installing?

I don't know. But, booting from live image of whatever Mate is 
available, opening terminal and trying `grubinstall ...` might give some 
clues in error messages.

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Dartmouth Mathematics
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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