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I've always installed Debian/Ubuntu without problems with Windows but this time I cannot. I had a w10/debian9 build but I wanted to start from 0 so I formatted my partitions and reinstalled my os. There wasn't problems for w10 but I couldn't install any Linux distro, I tried with Mint 19, Ubuntu, Kubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 and it always says that I have no space when installing even though my disk has 930 GB empty space. I tried to restart even my partition tablet. I don't know what to do, any idea?

Edit: I post pictures since pc gets mad and doesnt allow me to copypaste. I added syslog where my PC starts to iterate this error. Any idea?

Edit2: I finally got the solution that was to add pci=nomsi after quiet splash as grub boot parameters

GParted screenshot sudo lsblk -f screenshot LC_Messages=POSIX lshw -storage screenshot

syslog

Shiro98
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  • For the (K)Ubuntu install, please describe which steps you went through, and which selections you did. – Soren A Sep 17 '18 at 09:11
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    Please provide your device information. – M.A.K. Ripon Sep 17 '18 at 09:12
  • @SorenA i tried to install with Connection , without connection, with third party drivers and without them , the normal installation, tried to manage the partitions by myself(creating manual swap space, root and home partitions) , letting the installer do by himself, i tried to erase w10 and install only Ubuntu/kubuntu too , also tried nomodeset but always the same error – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:16
  • @MAKRipon Asus f556U 12gb ram 1tb hdd i7-6500u and Nvidia 920m – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:18
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    What are you using for setup - USB device, CD/DVD or Hard disk self? – M.A.K. Ripon Sep 17 '18 at 09:21
  • @MAKRipon tried with Seagate backup 1tb external hdd and with and USB Drive 32gb(which I bought last friday specially for this) – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:23
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    Search google for how to dual boot ubuntu alongside windows or you can see the link for full tutorial about it https://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/ – M.A.K. Ripon Sep 17 '18 at 09:27
  • @MAKRipon i've already know also seen so many tutorials , if you look at one of my comments I explain how I tried to set swap/home/root partitions by my own or letting the installer do It by himself also all what i tried – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:30
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    Can you prove your Hard Disk Partition details – M.A.K. Ripon Sep 17 '18 at 09:31
  • @MAKRipon if I boot into try Ubuntu and I open Gparted i found this https://gyazo.com/a489f0497475c1c124c03f65afa6fd82 – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:40
  • @DavidFoerster I added 2 Pic related to the commands you said! – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 14:47
  • @DavidFoerster i tried to install with dual boot , alone doing by myself swap space/home/root partitions , letting the installer do his work. I also tried to erase Windows and try to install Ubuntu alone but didnt work too. – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 14:50
  • Could you please post text files, dialogue messages, and program output listings as text, not as images? To achieve the latter two you can either 1) select, copy & paste the dialogue text or terminal content or 2) save the program output to a file and use that. Longer listings (the editor will tell you what’s too long) should be uploaded to a pastie service and linked to in the question. Thanks. – David Foerster Sep 17 '18 at 15:19
  • Looks like Ubiquity (the Ubuntu installation program) can’t figure out how to (re-)partition the drive for some reason. That tends to happen in some corner cases. Possible duplicate of How to use manual partitioning during installation? – David Foerster Sep 17 '18 at 15:22
  • @DavidFoerster which of that cases would be mine? – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 15:40
  • @Shiro98: I recommend that you 1) erase the partition table, 2) install Windows and 3) go with “windows installed”. It’s still easier to install Ubuntu after Windows. – David Foerster Sep 17 '18 at 18:56
  • @DavidFoerster I updated with syslog screenshot (cant copypaste since pc gets mad when try to install) – Shiro98 Sep 19 '18 at 07:41
  • What’s the context of that? In any case it looks like a new issue, so please open a new question for it. Thanks. – David Foerster Sep 19 '18 at 08:06
  • Please remove the images and replace them with a copy/paste of the text from a terminal session. We need the text for 2 reasons: 1. text can be searched; images you can not search on 2. text can be copied. – Rinzwind Sep 19 '18 at 08:56
  • @Rinzwind I explained that i couldnt copyrpaste because pc crushed everyone i know it's better to write but it's all I could post , I'll write manually later all stuff – Shiro98 Sep 19 '18 at 19:40

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I had to find this out the hard way, as there's little to no information about this on the web, only questions;

If you boot from an MBR formatted drive, you will not be able to install Linux successfully to a GPT formatted drive! (Not without a lot of customisation of setting up your own boot partition etc.)

This can happen when you have multiple drives installed in your PC - you may even be booting from an MBR drive which then points to some other drive where Windows is installed - and you won't even know it! I found this out the hard was as well, when I removed an old drive which only had data on it (so I thought) and then the computer wouldn't boot - even though Windows was on a separate drive!

This is an insidious problem since the Linux dual boot installs don't check for this, and things seem to go well - and then your computer doesn't boot.

To check if this is the case for you - you can go back into Windows, and in Drive Manager, right click on the physical Drive - not the partitions. So right click on, Drive0, Drive1 etc. and for each, click Properties, then click Volumes. Note the “Partition style” for each drive, so go back and write either MBR or GPT next to each drive.

You can find out which drive you’re booting from in Windows, open Computer Management, Drive Management, and look for the partition that says “System”, that is the boot drive.

To be safe, if you have any MBR drives, just install Linux to an MBR drive. It shouldn’t be a problem if you have a huge GPT drive with a lot of space free - just move some stuff off one of the MBR drives onto it.

Domarius
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    @Shiro98 you can try this – M.A.K. Ripon Sep 17 '18 at 09:34
  • If by drives you mean inner hdd I only have one attached to my pc , no more. But if I Understood I only have to make sure I make my partition style MBR and install my Linux there, right? – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:34
  • @MAKRipon i have to put my hdd into mbr style and then install ? – Shiro98 Sep 17 '18 at 09:42
  • I see from your screenshot, your drive has an "extended" partition to house all the other partitions - this is most certainly already an MBR formatted drive.

    Since the problem only started when you reformatted, perhaps they were originally GPT to begin with!

    So... try formatting as GPT. See if this helps.

     – Domarius Sep 17 '18 at 19:11