• HP laptop set to UEFI won't boot from USB
• Tried opening to EFI file, still won't boot
• Secure boot causes error with invalid signatures

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When selecting disks, if you change the selected disk it will not turn off the blue selection indicator, letting you think that you selected multiple disks.

Installed blend, selected Gnome. After install I get console. I tried systemctl enable gdm --now but gdm is not found.

The problem with installing Alacritty with a container, is the lsblk command, it doesn't work as expected. it gives me a completely different directory address than the native "Console" application for the disks, and I don't know if I can edit native files from the terminal using neovim, thats a phew reasons why I need to install applications natively.

My expectation after seeing the OS's web page was that this distros could install packages natively with pacman, and enable/disable the immutable mode with a command like in SteamOS or VanillaOS, not that everything will be inside a container all the times..... Its a dealbreaker for me, how can I install a couple of applications natively?

PD: Also, I can't execute commands like "flatpak" inside the container to install apps on the main OS, because its just a container Lol, is its own distro basically, so no running commands from alacritty to manage my main os, basically this distro removes any kind of choice that you can make about it.

Hello,

I got BlendOS installed in a VM on a remote Server.
Access per SSH works perfectly fine. (Installed OpenSSH per blend install openssh)
Now I want to access the desktop per Windows RDP, thus installed XRDP via blend install xrdp.
Everything worked fine, but there is no /etc/xrdp directory.

More specifically, when I want to start the service with systemctl start xrdp.service, I get following output

Failed to start xrdp.service: Unit xrdp.service not found.

The issue once existed with an older version of XRDP because the AUR version was outdated, but this is not the case here.

Is that an issue with BlendOS or with XRDP itself?


Btw: When I install XRDP in either arch or ubuntu-22.10 container and want to start the service via systemctl start xrdp(.service) in the container itselfs I get back:

System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.

Outside the containers I get the first error message back.

Hi, Thanks for the cool project. Gnome, KDE, and i3 install great. I have reproduced this XFCE install error twice. Install completes with the error "add wheel group to sudoers ERROR: No such file or directory". When you choose Next, blendOS reboots to the newly installed system which drops to Grub rather than XFCE. TIA.

Wondering if it'd be possible to add the ability to be able to install this in a similar method to how arch linux can be. Allowing for the user to have more ability to customize (i.e. an encrypted btrfs file system with custom subvols etc.) Using a specified bootloader etc. But also just maintain the ability to use the blend functionality / have access to all the package managers.

I tried to download the OS .iso file four times. It failed to download.

Hi,

I've got the same problem on both VMware and Virtualbox. I suppose the iso to be broken.

When I boot to install the OS, there is an error at the very beginning saying: Error loading initrd: Device error.

I don't know it is a compatibility issue but I hope you can guide me through it.

Thank you for you help.

how about actually telling us the minimal requirements to install. its not on the project website or easily accessible to find in the git hub page

The installer is stuck on 'Installing blendOS'. I have manual partitioning selected. The console part is empty and the cpu (according to the system monitor) of 'jade-gui' is 0.00%. It says it may take some time but why is it not even doing anything?

How can i use git? Because I downloaded it but I can't use it because it says there is no such command.

Gives an aarch64 - UEFI bootable (for Apple Silicone, ARM, Macs) ISO version soon?
All Arch based aarch64 versions are not installable.
Only Debian and Fedora offers installable ISO Images.
I use VMware Fusion 13 and UTM/QEMU for VMs. VirtualBox for M1, M2 ARM Macs are buggy.
https://www.heise.de/news/Eine-fuer-alles-Linux-Distribution-blendOS-mixt-Arch-Fedora-und-Ubuntu-7475509.html

Used the gnome iso image ,booted with BIOS and choose all the options then when hit install i get taken back to the gnome login screen instantly with a user 'blend' and after clicking login get asked the same questions again

Installer is not installing after taking all the instruction form the Manual partition istall.
it keeps waiting on the screen, " this may take a while"
i checked the Sys.Monitor and its not using any resource to install the OS

Hi I installed BlendOS on my Surface Pro 4 using my Wi-Fi adapter which the installation setup found without any issues.

But when I reboot and log in the system cannot find a Wi-Fi adapter, I have no access to ethernet. Is there a solution for this problem?

Thanks

Philip

So in both kvm, and virtual box after the install completes i get dropped into a grub rescue shell and i can't boot from there, the installer did give some errors about not being able to add the user to the wheel group but it said it finished.

Hey guys, this is a very cool project, one of my dream come true to be honest!

I have a question, will it allow users to "add" more distros if they wanted to?

Say if they wanted to run gentoo, alpine or void linux, alongside the distros that it already ships with

Will it be possible in the near future?

It doesn't boot on Legacy Hardware only display a blinking cursor, No tty or anything just a blinking cursor.

Can you put on some sort of installation guide!!

It would be great to have a way to install no desktop, no plymouth, no fonts etc. to just have a xorg to start with and install own apps and all, because I think this distro will be seen as "bloated" by many people (me too). 2.5 gigs of pacstrap is a lot.
Of course that would be keeping the purpose of blendOS, like the immutability, distrobox etc.

I downloaded iso image this morning
I tried to boot up in grub mode , it thrown an error kernal not found
I tried to boot up in normal mode , it just in the loading screen for long time

I tried with ventoy and rufus to create bootable image and I tried it on lenovo e1-25

Everything work ok, but when I try to use manual partition, appears many errors, please add an automatic partition for use dual boot with Windows 11.

how shall I dual boot with my windows 11. I have windows 11 installed already, I don't want to lose it, i want to install in an unallocated partition of the same disk, i don't see an option to do that, i was able to make partitions using GParted, but what next?

When booting the ISO from Ventoy, the console (F2) shows that it can't find some disk in /dev/disk/by-id. It is easily fixable by flashing the iso to the whole USB, but it would be better to be able to boot from ventoy.

Hi there,

i tried to boot the iso on both a physical machine and a VM based on KVM, but i can't seem to boot from the ISO. The sha256sum is correct though.

an installation was not possible because a bootloop could not be stopped.
in the end i had to restart the whole node
any shortcuts were also not possible

I want to change my AMD GPU driver from Mesa to AMDGPUPRO, how can I do that with the "blend" command tool? I know that changing it from a container doesn't do anything, please help.

I cannot run BlendOS. Both Parallels and VMware will tell me there is no OS in the ISO file.

I downloaded the normal ISO file, not the T2 one.

How can I use these commands because it says not allowed:

sudo install -Dm 755 hyprctl /usr/bin/hyprctl
sudo install -Dm 755 Hyprland /usr/bin/Hyprland
sudo install -Dm 755 libwlroots.so.12032 /usr/lib/libwlroots.so.12032
sudo install -Dm 644 hyprland.desktop /usr/share/wayland-sessions/hyprland.desktop

The iso won't boot in BIOS mode and only works in UEFI.

I found this issue out in VMWare

Hi there,

i wonder if it is possible to make certain changes to the immutable system? I have to install some packages like the spice-vdagentd and the qemu-guest-tools in order for Virt-manager to pick up the correct screen resolution. How do i do that?

It looks like the only option for encryption is to drop to terminal. Would be nice to not have to know how to setup LUKS/LVM in order to use full disk encryption and have it be part of the installer.

I have downloaded via Proxmox download tool and gave me "Access denied". I tried again to download in my machine and send it via NFS. Again the same error. Looks like the UEFI or the BIOS(I tested both) can't be able to find the boot sector.

In general when this error "Access denied" happens is due to incompatible Bios. So I have to change from UEFI to legacy. And works. In the case of BlendOS I had no luck.

Here is my conf file

root@pve:~# cat /etc/pve/nodes/pve/qemu-server/406.conf
boot: order=sata0;scsi0;net0
cores: 8
efidisk0: localdisk:406/vm-406-disk-1.qcow2,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=528K
machine: q35
memory: 11048
meta: creation-qemu=7.1.0,ctime=1674785339
name: blendOS
net0: virtio=D6:D7:20:46:92:CA,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
ostype: l26
sata0: localdisk:iso/blendOS-2023.01.26-x86_64.iso,media=cdrom,size=1453676K
scsi0: localdisk:106/vm-106-disk-2.qcow2,iothread=1,size=132G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=///erased
sockets: 1
vmgenid: ///erased
vmstatestorage: localdisk

PS. But I have booted with Ubuntu and I'm able to access the CD-ROM and see all files in there...

Won't we see BlendOS with ARM support? (Specially for Apple Silicone Macs)? This distro deserve to get ARM support.

It boots but it won't even show any options to install the OS(i.e boot into live environment and install), only the "reboot into Firmware interface" option, on live hardware, however, when ran in a VM under Windows(Virtualbox) it works, and i'm also using Rufus to burn the iso to usb stick, tried both modes (ISO and DD modes) and neither of them gave a different result
And yes, the stick is being formatted for UEFI usage i.e. in GPT format and the system is UEFI capable
Image for clarification:

The latest iso doesn't have secure boot, So is it planned for future? Also can we be able to use secure boot after installing this through an update if it will be available in future?

So far, I've tried Brave in both Arch and in Flatpak form, and Google Chrome in Flatpak form.

I've not had a chance to try this other ways, but so far, I can't get the browsers to load.

Running from command line, I get similar errors to this.

Stub sandbox ignoring command: /app/extra/nacl_helper
[2:2:0131/162136.649974:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(313)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes)
Gtk-Message: 16:21:37.441: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 16:21:37.443: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_na

I don't know if there's something in the distro keeping it from loading properly or what. I really like Brave and would like to be able to use it.

I'll keep experimenting when I have time but so far I figured I'd give you my report on the issues I'm having. Maybe it's also a distro-specific thing the browser developers need to work out, but the distro is so new and at this point so niche, I don't know if they'd try to work out a solution. Hopefully it's something in this distribution that can be fixed, as this is ot normal behavior for Chromium-based browser in any other distro I've used.

Keep up the great work, though. I love the concept. Hopefully I can help you guys make things more stable with some input, and I'm also developing a graphical front-end for Distrobox called DistroGUI that you may be interested in. It's been a couple of months since I've done anything with it but I hope to get back to it soon. That's a different subject altogether.

If you could give me some advice, a work around, or an update to fix this soon, that would be awesome! Best wishes with this project! I look forward to seeing it succeed!

Es gibt nur english als system sprache

it will be really helpful if the developers make installtion videos and upload them on youtube.
i can't install the Manual partition type

I installed Gparted and dependencies with "blend install". Starting it with sudo inside the container I get this:

_jack@arch ~ %> sudo gparted /dev/sda
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
Too few arguments.
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/udev/rules.d’: Permission denied

(gpartedbin:29053): dbind-WARNING **: 12:09:37.862: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
GParted 1.5.0
configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.5
Error opening /dev/sda: Permission denied
Too few arguments._

Are there any work-arounds for this?

Probably a mistake on uploading or writing down the correct ISOs, as both of them are GNOME, none is KDE.

For example, when you select the region Russia, the installation becomes impossible because of the keyboard language change (in Russian you cannot create a user (his name)).
In Linux I always partition the disk into three partitions (/boot/efi, swap and / (root directory). After working with Gparted I go back to the installer.
Consider the Format menu options:
Lots of different file systems...
But! There are no main ones: fat32(for /boot/efi) and swap (also can't find this option in the "how to use this partition" menu, it's second menu after "choose the file system" menu) . Yes, of course you can leave the "do not format" option, but then the Next button will not be active.
These are all the problems I found

A small nitpick, but Xfce is incorrectly capitalized as "XFCE" instead of the correct "Xfce" on the website and in the installer. "XFCE" was the old name of the desktop environment, when it used to be an acronym, however it no longer officially stands for anything and is now officially branded as "Xfce." It probably doesn't matter too much, but it may be wise to change this at some point.

hi, is it possible that you can add support for arm64/aarch64 architectures embedded devices eg : raspberry pi 4b ? if so it would be helpful.

thank you

When selecting keyboard layout, at least in installer, the country Latvia is spelled as Lativa.

I can't unlock the screen, or power off. I apologize for not knowing where else to seek help.

This was what came back after a USB install, not the expected user login screen.

I just installed blendOS on a completely different SSD, different from the one where Windows is installed.

After it finished, I rebooted, and to my surprise the Windows boot entry was completely gone.
The SATA boot entry for the SSD it's installed on is still there, although it doesn't boot.

Is there any way for me to add a boot entry for it again ?

I installed after choosing french locale.

I can't find the logs so

here a screenshot