Hi, On 2021-08-13 11:47 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > 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.. Earlier you said you are running a computer based on Mac ? Wasn't the case ? It's hard to follow this thread... > 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 > <mailto: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 > > -- > All the best > > Keith Bainbridge > > keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com <mailto:keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com> > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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