Re: Root location

Thx to Polyna especially, for telling me that I have x86-64 machine. Do not yet know x86 part but 64bit it certainly is.

In Mint 32bit i686 still. but now
I know a little bit (!) more about this machine, how chmod is not wise to use, etc. Kinda fun, cos Mint lets me in again. So far.

My Mini PC Windows 10 128GB SSD is in the customs here (been there 6 weeks..), great. Hope I can use the screen on this for a week or two..

I will surely stay in Mint, that is without root, chroot, chmod etc until I have a tiny clue what all this is doing with my computer. Wild child still, weird.

Gunnar

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 09:45, Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/8/21 18:15, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> I tried to partition with rEFInd because Linux Mint 19 i386 xfce 32bit
> worked with EFI. In hope to upgrade to x86-64bit. After it looked like
> all good, I went out, thinking it was OK. But installation came back to
> start, asking me to choose put boot in Mbr, Partition with Gparted or
> Abort. Mbr resulted in warning. Gparted offered grub bios, took that,
> result was root in /target
> instead of in /dev/sda1
> Now:
> lsblk
> sda1 148G part /
> sda3 999M part
>
> Looks okay;
> sda1 as root
> sda3 as swap
>
> Better I try boot
> Then see what happens.
> (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can).
> BR,
> Gunnar

Gunnar

I suggest you stick with Mint until you get a better understanding of
how things work.

Try testing in virtual machine

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All the best

Keith Bainbridge

keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com