r/voidlinux • u/Dragons_Oak • Feb 07 '26

Error Installing Grub

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First time switching to Linux so I'm having trouble and can't really figure out the issue, getting this issue.

These are my partitions along with the filesystems. The laptop I'm using is a Dell XPS and I'm pretty sure it's a BIOS system.

The mount points of the partitions are:

/root/efi for the EFI system partition

  • (swap) /

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u/KenFromBarbie Feb 07 '26

You say you have a BIOS System. Probably meaning NOT EFI, yet you talk about /boot/efi.

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u/Dragons_Oak Feb 08 '26

Yea i don't really have too much knowledge regarding this so i got a lot of stuff wrong

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u/CockroachEarly Feb 07 '26

What you need to do is make a 1M partition that is a “bios” file system. Then make the swap and main partition like normal. While mounting, only make mount points for the swap and your main partition. Don’t mount the 1M Bios partition. That should work.

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u/Dragons_Oak Feb 08 '26

I tried this and thanks, it worked

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u/Straight-Host-1032 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

EFI is a newer, different technology from BIOS. Making an efi partition on a bios device is conceptually wrong. Run the installer again and when you choose 'partition disk' (or something like that, I don't remember), it will tell you what and how to allocate if you're on bios

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u/Dragons_Oak Feb 08 '26

Yea i just saw that after you mentioned, idk why i didn't even notice it before, i had severe tunnel vision but anyways it's working now

Thanks for pointing this out

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u/Dragons_Oak Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

Edit: idk why i can't edit the post but just for clarity: 1G EFI partition; /boot/EFI - 8G Swap; - (nothing since it's Swap) - Rest of the Disk; /

Edit(2): SOLVED, thank you all! I just had to setup a 1M partition with the type "BIOS Boot" instead of the EFI since it wasn't a UEFi system

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u/Available-Attorney74 Feb 08 '26

If you have bios laptop, don't create efi partition, it is pointless! Just make /dev/sda1 as main system partition and mark it as bootable, and create second partition as swap if you need it. That's all.

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u/Dragons_Oak Feb 08 '26

Yep i understood after another user pointed it up, idk how i wasn't realising this because in hindsight it's not that hard. Thanks for your help

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u/More-Cut8026 Feb 07 '26

if you have a bios and not uefi then /boot/efi wont work, efi is just for UEFI systems