hd installation wizard dies

[joe b]

I was so happy that I found a distro that could have the nvidia geforce drivers for my Dell 660.  Ubuntu, Fedora, Opensuse.... all failed in different ways (black screen, horrible resolution).  I've been working on this for at least  days.

I tried an initial install of your program.... it was working in spite of a bug at start-up (Debian?).  However i went back into windows 8 to check on my partitions before installing PCLinuxOS (newest version Feb 1 2013).  Made sure there was unallocated space on the drive.

Back into PClinuxOS, started the install, install dies after first window.  Did this on the straight Install, install from LiveCD, safe install.  Is there some sort of cache that needs to be cleared (?).  Turned the computer off, reburned the the cd, still the wizard does not continue after language selection.  Wizard simply disappears.

Live version works well, though I want something more permanent.

[Just17]

The Live version does not touch your HDD, so it is possible that something about the HDD upset it .....  just a guess.

When in the live version, open a terminal (konsole), type

su

and when asked type the root password (root) which will not be visible, and press enter.

Then type the following command

fdisk -l          (that is a lower case L)

Please copy and paste the content of the terminal into your next post.

With that information someone might be able to assist.

Welcome to PCLOS 

[joe b]

Thanks.  I did the fdisk -l and saw that the install was not able to access an external hd and therefore was quitting.

So you solved the problem.

Now I'm fighting with Grub.  I loaded into a linux partition and it could not be found by bcdeasy (Windows 8 and PClinuxOs).  I then installed Grub to the Windows 8 partition's mbr and it worked a couple of times (as long as there was a dvd in the drive - any dvd...).  Without a dvd in the drive, I would get Grub's error 22 on boot and no OS at all.

I repaired the boot with my Windows imaging program's tool.  That was great, but no linux now.

Windows 8 does not like Grub.

Any recommendations?

Joe

[Just17]

Grub Error #

22 : No such partition
      This error is returned if a partition is requested in the device
      part of a device- or full file name which isn't on the selected
      disk.

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Any recommendations?
If it were me, I would use the LiveCD of PCLOS, and installed Grub into the MBR of the drive, using Grub in the PCLOS install as the root.
Do not have other drives attached to the machine while setting it up.

Further I suspect that the info to get the correct partition number would be available from the output of fdisk -l which could be compared with the entries in the menu.lst file.

As you decided not to post any of the info I cannot comment further.