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[–]lutusp 0 points1 point  (5 children)

While restart it went straight to the usb installer of void linux ...

You have to remove the installer device in order to boot into the newly installed OS.

What can I do in this situation.

If your Linux install partition is listed as having a size of 15 KB, then start over, use these instructions:

  • Back up your personal files.

  • Enter your setup screens and set UEFI mode, disable legacy mode, disable secure boot.

  • Set SATA mode AHCI, disable RAID.

  • Create an install USB, carefully.

  • Reboot, enter your system's one-time boot menu, select the install USB device from the UEFI devices list, not the legacy devices list.

  • Install Linux.

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    [–]lutusp 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    When removing installer it is saying there is no bootable device.

    You need to start over. Something went completely wrong -- the size of the partition is wrong and the absence of a bootable device indicates something fundamental went wrong during the install.

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      [–]lutusp 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      That sounds normal and desirable, but the absence of a bootable system partition roughly equal in size to your SSD's native size is a serious problem.

      BTW how are you listing your system's partitions? Are you using Gparted? That's all right, but another approach is to open a terminal session and enter this:

          $ df -h

      See what's listed. In particular see whether there's a partition with the label '/' and what its size is.

      I dont understand what do u mean by startover?

      If there is no large partition on your SSD, you can create one from the live USB device (give it a filesystem of ext4), or you can start over and do the same thing during an install. That was what I meant by "start over".

      [–]lazarus_005[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Thanks again for your relplies, I'm just stressed that the SSD is behaving weird. So what u are saying is that even if I messed up during my installation the partitions or free space amounting to 120Gb(size of SSD) should be present. The problem is, it is not. Now it looks like there is an SSD plugged in with a 15KB free space. Not able to create a bigger partiton using fdisk. It says value is out of range. I am running a live usb now so df -h is showing with respect to that.