Installing Ubuntu 20.0.4 LTS on a 4TB hard drive on an older Asus Desktop M51AC (linked to the exact model on Amazon). I opted for the LVM encryption option. I used the default amd 64 iso (iso was downloaded on a 2014 Macbook pro laptop and image was created using balenaEtcher) provide by Ubuntu to create the image on a USB stick. I can boot to the "live ubuntu" from the USB stick but not to the newly installed hard drive that I installed 20.04 on. I checked the bios and the boot order seems fine - it looks like the BIOS is telling the system to boot from the hard drive.
What is possibly wrong and/or what are the first few diagnosis steps I should take beyond what I've done so far?
Below is the boot info summary from the boot-repair utility I ran:
boot-repair-4ppa130 [20210801_2339]
============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 2048
of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and
looks for (,gpt3)/grub. It also embeds following components:
modules
---------------------------------------------
fshelp ext2 part_gpt biosdisk
---------------------------------------------
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda1 has
1565562879 sectors, but according to the info from
fdisk, it has 5860530175 sectors.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: BIOS Boot partition
Boot sector type: Grub2's core.img
Boot sector info:
sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files: /grub/grub.cfg /grub/i386-pc/core.img
sdb4: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: crypto_LUKS
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
sdg: ___________________________________________________________________________
File system: iso9660
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sdg: /dev/sdg already mounted or mount point busy.
================================ 0 OS detected =================================
============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Live-session OS is Ubuntu 64-bit (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, focal, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
This live-session is not in EFI-mode.
This session has been detected as 'live' because df -Th / contains overlay
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, no-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
sdb : is-GPT, hasBIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, no-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios
sdb2 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sdb3 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, grubenv-ok, noupdategrub, not-far
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sdb2 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sdb3 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
sdb2 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sdb
sdb3 : is-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sdb
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sda: 2.75 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk identifier: 779206DE-F544-4E13-9E49-85118639FFC5
Start End Sectors Size Type
sda1 2048 5860532223 5860530176 2.7T Microsoft basic data
Disk sdb: 3.65 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk identifier: 4BF80231-D14A-4A45-AC99-BDF70D1377D1
Start End Sectors Size Type
sdb1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot
sdb2 4096 1054719 1050624 513M Microsoft basic data
sdb3 1054720 2553855 1499136 732M Linux filesystem
sdb4 2553856 7814035455 7811481600 3.7T Linux filesystem
Disk sdg: 116.86 GiB, 125460021248 bytes, 245039104 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x38b1c112
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdg1 * 0 5619583 5619584 2.7G 0 Empty
sdg2 1700 9699 8000 3.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sdg3 5619712 245039103 239419392 114.2G 83 Linux
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:3001GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA WDC WD30EZRZ-00Z:;
1:1049kB:3001GB:3001GB:ntfs:primary_backup:msftdata;
sdb:4001GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA Hitachi HUS72404:;
1:1049kB:2097kB:1049kB:::bios_grub;
2:2097kB:540MB:538MB:fat32::msftdata;
3:540MB:1308MB:768MB:ext4::;
4:1308MB:4001GB:3999GB:::;
sdg:125GB:scsi:512:512:unknown:SanDisk Cruzer:;
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
└─sda1 ntfs 65E0C2C75F512540 a86b1f12-7230-4af1-ab94-28ceaff8f34c PrimaryBackup primary_backup
sdb
├─sdb1 f85dc894-03cd-4685-b74e-23bf27e23d59
├─sdb2 vfat 3BBC-4300 b6678518-9251-4533-84d0-2d05913b884d
├─sdb3 ext4 2e8ef15b-e4ab-46da-950f-e60d0417a0f7 1a135902-9fa5-46d9-9693-499744d54789
└─sdb4 crypto_LUKS f31e4b13-3723-40da-ba29-bc939a707d30 61736f11-78ba-4568-9a82-d07e213b4404
sdg iso9660 2021-02-09-19-06-26-00 Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS amd64
├─sdg1 iso9660 2021-02-09-19-06-26-00 38b1c112-01 Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS amd64
├─sdg2 vfat 54C5-9C6C 38b1c112-02
└─sdg3 ext4 6dd856b2-84f2-4656-aa3f-1dc7dbf6d28f 38b1c112-03 writable
df (filtered): _________________________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2021-08-01.7/crash] 106.1G 0% /var/crash
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2021-08-01.7/log] 106.1G 0% /var/log
sda1 1.6T 43% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
sdb2 512M 0% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2
sdb3 444.5M 30% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3
sdg1 0 100% /cdrom
Mount options: __________________________________________________________________
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2021-08-01.7/crash] rw,relatime
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2021-08-01.7/log] rw,relatime
sda1 rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
sdb2 rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
sdb3 rw,relatime
sdg1 ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048
======================== sdb3/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) =========================
Ubuntu aced5604-bcb7-461d-800e-5e1c1ea0b96d
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.8.0-63-generic aced5604-bcb7-461d-800e-5e1c1ea0b96d
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.8.0-43-generic aced5604-bcb7-461d-800e-5e1c1ea0b96d
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
==================== sdb3: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
0.989307404 = 1.062260736 grub/grub.cfg 2
0.993400574 = 1.066655744 grub/i386-pc/core.img 1
1.019866943 = 1.095073792 vmlinuz 1
0.901363373 = 0.967831552 vmlinuz-5.8.0-43-generic 2
1.019866943 = 1.095073792 vmlinuz-5.8.0-63-generic 1
0.901363373 = 0.967831552 vmlinuz.old 2
0.978836060 = 1.051017216 initrd.img 3
1.122066498 = 1.204809728 initrd.img-5.8.0-43-generic 3
0.978836060 = 1.051017216 initrd.img-5.8.0-63-generic 3
1.122066498 = 1.204809728 initrd.img.old 3
======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =========================
Unknown BootLoader on sdb4
00000000 4c 55 4b 53 ba be 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 |LUKS..........@.|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 73 68 61 32 35 36 00 00 |........sha256..|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 ea 08 60 01 74 35 fa |........C..`.t5.|
00000070 12 35 a4 22 a4 c4 4f e6 e9 59 26 64 ec c0 7e e1 |.5."..O..Y&d..~.|
00000080 4b 64 86 f2 df 9f ef 0d 9f 09 7f 88 8a 27 8a 12 |Kd...........'..|
00000090 4b 04 d5 a2 e9 4c 59 c5 b2 15 06 d5 17 2d 25 2f |K....LY......-%/|
000000a0 da 6e 05 b3 c3 0c e6 e8 66 33 31 65 34 62 31 33 |.n......f31e4b13|
000000b0 2d 33 37 32 33 2d 34 30 64 61 2d 62 61 32 39 2d |-3723-40da-ba29-|
000000c0 62 63 39 33 39 61 37 30 37 64 33 30 00 00 00 00 |bc939a707d30....|
000000d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000001c0 89 bd 3e 95 87 19 ed 10 9e c9 d7 e8 a1 ad f1 e0 |..>.............|
000001d0 af 59 7f 62 55 26 27 79 83 ec 01 20 99 b3 b8 f5 |.Y.bU&'y... ....|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000200
Unknown BootLoader on sdg
00000000 45 52 08 00 00 00 90 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |ER..............|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 33 ed fa 8e d5 bc 00 7c fb fc 66 31 db 66 31 c9 |3......|..f1.f1.|
00000030 66 53 66 51 06 57 8e dd 8e c5 52 be 00 7c bf 00 |fSfQ.W....R..|..|
00000040 06 b9 00 01 f3 a5 ea 4b 06 00 00 52 b4 41 bb aa |.......K...R.A..|
00000050 55 31 c9 30 f6 f9 cd 13 72 16 81 fb 55 aa 75 10 |U1.0....r...U.u.|
00000060 83 e1 01 74 0b 66 c7 06 f3 06 b4 42 eb 15 eb 02 |...t.f.....B....|
00000070 31 c9 5a 51 b4 08 cd 13 5b 0f b6 c6 40 50 83 e1 |1.ZQ....[...@P..|
00000080 3f 51 f7 e1 53 52 50 bb 00 7c b9 04 00 66 a1 b0 |?Q..SRP..|...f..|
00000090 07 e8 44 00 0f 82 80 00 66 40 80 c7 02 e2 f2 66 |[email protected]|
000000a0 81 3e 40 7c fb c0 78 70 75 09 fa bc ec 7b ea 44 |.>@|..xpu....{.D|
000000b0 7c 00 00 e8 83 00 69 73 6f 6c 69 6e 75 78 2e 62 ||.....isolinux.b|
000000c0 69 6e 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 72 20 63 6f |in missing or co|
000000d0 72 72 75 70 74 2e 0d 0a 66 60 66 31 d2 66 03 06 |rrupt...f`f1.f..|
000000e0 f8 7b 66 13 16 fc 7b 66 52 66 50 06 53 6a 01 6a |.{f...{fRfP.Sj.j|
000000f0 10 89 e6 66 f7 36 e8 7b c0 e4 06 88 e1 88 c5 92 |...f.6.{........|
00000100 f6 36 ee 7b 88 c6 08 e1 41 b8 01 02 8a 16 f2 7b |.6.{....A......{|
00000110 cd 13 8d 64 10 66 61 c3 e8 1e 00 4f 70 65 72 61 |...d.fa....Opera|
00000120 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 20 6c 6f 61 64 |ting system load|
00000130 20 65 72 72 6f 72 2e 0d 0a 5e ac b4 0e 8a 3e 62 | error...^....>b|
00000140 04 b3 07 cd 10 3c 0a 75 f1 cd 18 f4 eb fd 00 00 |.....<.u........|
00000150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000001b0 80 b6 05 00 00 00 00 00 12 c1 b1 38 00 00 80 00 |...........8....|
000001c0 01 00 00 ab e0 fc 00 00 00 00 80 bf 55 00 00 fe |............U...|
000001d0 ff ff ef fe ff ff a4 06 00 00 40 1f 00 00 00 ce |..........@.....|
000001e0 72 5d 83 f9 e5 94 00 c0 55 00 00 40 45 0e 00 00 |r]......U..@E...|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
========= Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive ==========
sdc sdd sde sdf
=============================== StdErr Messages ================================
File descriptor 63 (pipe:[86353]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 7485: /bin/bash
/dev/sdc: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sdd: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sde: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sdf: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sdc: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sdd: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sde: open failed: No medium found
/dev/sdf: open failed: No medium found
Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would not act on the boot.
Blockers in case of suggested repair: __________________________________________
Encrypted partition detected. Please retry after mounting your encrypted partitions so that the tool can verify their contents. (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory)
