This is no offense.
I installed with GNOME 4.5 ISO onto harddisk with success.
Partitions are boot_grub, root with "/", /home and linux-swap.
With encryption and offline.
Wenn booting harddisk then appears "grub" with blinking cursor.
Is this correct ?
Grub waits for password ?

    DirtyAngel +++ STRG-ALT F2 shows No reaction ... it remains blinking ... Sure that command "sudo update-grub2" is saved in Solus 4.5 GNOME ISO at end of installation ? +++

      Something very wrong happening, Solus does not use grub AFAIK.

        Staudey ++++ Seems then that attacker at me tries MITM attack and has system with uefi, while I have system with grub2. This way downloads from my side ends up with malformed grub2 ? I have older notebook with efi and not uefi. ++++

            DirtyAngel Seems then that attacker at me tries MITM attack and has system with uefi, while I have system with grub2. This way downloads from my side ends up with malformed grub2

            Look, this has nothing to do with any sort of "attacker". Either something is wrong with the installer, or you set up the partitions the wrong way.

            Did you let the installer overwrite the whole disk, or did you manually set something up? Is there a second OS on the disk? I'm not entirely sure what's the boot_grub partition you mention. Did you manually create that? Seeing as you also mention a /home partition, it seems like you did manual partitioning, since AFAIK the Solus installer doesn't create a separate partition like that.

            Wenn booting harddisk then appears "grub" with blinking cursor.

            What do you mean by that? Does the screen say "grub", plus a blinking cursor? Or is it just the blinking cursor? In the latter case, what makes you think that it's grub you're seeing, and not some other part of the boot process?

                Staudey ++++ It is a notebook with installed Solus 4.5 (notebook has two harddisks with grub2 as bootloader). I try to Install Solus 4.5 GNOME on to external hard-disk with boot-loader grub2 to install into external hard-disk. So it seems then that Solus 4.5 cannot differ one system from each other? External hard-disk ends up with "grub" on black screen with blinking cursor. ++++

                    DirtyAngel

                    When you boot up spam F11 key, it's the boot menu, and go into BIOS.
                    edit: or find a way to get into Bios
                    At least it is F11 for me, mileage may vary.
                    In Bios find a section call BOOT OPTIONS.
                    It should tell you if you have/are in UEFI or UEFI and Legacy.
                    How Solus installs depends on you knowing what you are in or what system your Bios is set for.

                    If you are in UEFI mode a Grub install will NEVER WORK.
                    A grub install is made for Legacy so in bios choose UEFI and LEGACY.

                    Then start it all over again with the install.
                    Personally I would set Bios for UEFI only and install a Bootloader option in the installer.

                    I get the feeling you haven't mixed and matched correctly for the pre-install. Maybe I'm wrong.

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