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Old 05-19-2023, 04:52 AM   #1
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MX Linux Installer issues - Notebook Versus PC


At this point I don't recall anymore if the MX Installer has the taskbar battery notification symbol installed by default, but if it does, you may find out that installing an MX Live Image with that option enabled on a PC, may cause the PC to instantly shut down without allowing the installation of MX Linux to commence. I found that out the hard way, after creating two live USB images for distribution, which could not be installed on a PC afterwards.
However, installing on a Laptop / Notebook was no problem at all.

At first I thought there was an issue with the installer USB sticks, until the second one failed in an identical fashion. Then I thought perhaps it's a hardware issue on that particular PC, until a second attempt to install on a different PC failed as well. The live USB booted all the way until the finished screen with the taskbar / bottom panel appeared, then within a second or two a line appeared stating ... System is shutting down, commencing instantly with powering off the system.

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Old 05-19-2023, 05:25 AM   #2
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Well, when both Live USB installers failed on two different PCs, I became suspicious and figured that the installation issue didn't have anything at all to do with the live image itself, nor the PC which was having MX Linux installed on it. To test my theory of the issue having to do with the battery notification symbol instead ... which caused an immediate shut-down due to a non-existent (empty or dead) battery ... I then created another live image. This time I removed the battery notification symbol before commencing with a new image that was created within 24 hours of the previous "failed" image.

Problem solved. The new MX Live image without the battery notification symbol then installed properly on the same two PCs where the installation had failed previously.

So if you're a techie like myself who installs images on Laptops as well as on PCs, then just keep that in mind. If you create the image on a laptop with the battery notification symbol present on the taskbar / bottom panel, then there's a possibility that you won't be able to install that image on a PC. In that case, just remove the battery notification symbol from the panel, followed by creating another image specifically for installations on PCs only.
 
  


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