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I solved the issue/mystery. The mobo is an MSI non-UEFI. However it has a feature called Affinity 2.2tb that lets you load large than 2.2 tb HD's on the legacy bios. The installers detect this as a UEFI even though it is not. I had been activating this to select what to boot using the F12 key...

Just went through the installer of EndeavourOS and used etcher to make the thumb drive vs rufus. The installer still sad my system would not boot without an EFI partition. I setup the partition as MBR vs GPT. did 1 single partition mounted as / for simplicity sake. It's going through the install...

It's an AMD based vid card, AMD 64bit CPU using an older MSI board which at the time was top if the line lol. I have run linux on it however it's been some time. THe live thumbdrives loads perfectly fine and will run without issue. I just can't seem to get it to install. It's almost as if...

So is there something special I need to do using the Calamares installing? Maybe I am doing something wrong cause it installs and reboot all I get is a black screen with a cursor in the top right? Maybe I am just doing something wrong? I have tried letting it setup the partition for me and I...

I have a little older desktop that doesn't have a UEFI bios. It's a quad core 16 gig system. I know I can install arch linux however I just don't want that level of difficulty. Tried a few arch based distros and they all require an EFI partition to run. I was able to get MX Linux running on it...