Installation error in UEFI-mode

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Hi
I want to install Calculate Linux on a new pc from HP. Secure boot is disabled and I have to use UEFI. I put the image cld-20260516-x86_64.iso on a stick and burned a DVD as well.

At boot time the system lets me chose the installation media in UEFI-mode or legacy mode. In legacy mode the installation process works fine, but then I can not start Calculate since the EFI-partition is missing.

When I start the installation in UEFI-mode I get the error message:

error: symbol ‘grub_memcpy’ not found.

This happens with the stick as well as with the DVD.

I do not get the error message with some other distros that I tried. That makes me wonder, am I really the only one that has this problem?

Because I installed a second Linux system on the machine I can now run Calculate. But the installation process is not completed, which causes some errors.

Do you have any suggestion on how to proceed?

Thanks a lot
Urs

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No, you are not the only one.

This has been going on since March. Last ISO I am able to boot is from March 20.

Every other since then produces this error, no matter which desktop. On my HP and Lenovo laptops.

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Hey Calculate Team!

If the goal is not to have any new users, it’s working :slight_smile:

Anyone can help with this?

I have Calculate on my two computers, running forever. I’d like to install it on any new computer I get.

Thank you

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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah :slightly_smiling_face:

It’s fixed, someone paid attention.

Thank you Calculate, you are da best!

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Indeed it’s fixed, Hallelujah :slightly_smiling_face:

I installed Calculate, everything worked fine, but then another dragon head pops up:

I cannot log in to the root account. I exit the guest account and when I try to log in as root the password is never accepted. This dialog seems not to work.

Thanks for your efforts

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Lightdm does not allow by default to login as root, but apparently there are ways to enable it.

You can login as root if you switch terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F4 for example, and
then using startx from there to boot into the root account desktop.

But why do you want to run as root?

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Thanks polaca57,

I want to change the name of the guest account. My understanding is, in order to do that I have to exit it first. Do I have to create an additional account in order to do this?

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Since you have just fresh installed why don’t you just re-install and you will be able to rename guest account during installation. You can also add new accounts and delete guest account altogether.

For someone new to Calculate best is the first option. Just rename guest account during setup.

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Shure, I can rename the guest account during installation, but then uid, gid and group id change to 1001. I wanted these IDs to be 1000 in order to be compatible to already existing external HDs.