Morning all
My goodness, Cody ... in a past life you have run over Buddha and wiped the smile from his dial (face). If you get through this, you will get through anything.
I got your pic at #120 sideways, perhaps because I live in Australia and we stand on our heads, so I am repeating it here so I can read it better.
What I find interesting is that in 2 out of 3 cases (and ta [Aussie for thanks] for the output) I had you issue the commands using sudo and there were no dramas, but that when you issued the command to chroot, you got the syntax error.
That syntax error in itself is curious. I have seen it before (read it) where the last part features eg `(' , `{' , other characters, and also `do' - but these are all scripting or PHP coding style terms. I have not ever seen it with sudo and I cannot find help for it.
sudo is an acronym for "substitute user do" although many say "superuser do", doesn't matter but "do" does feature. That is the only commonality I can see.
sudo chroot should kickstart what is known as /bin/bash, which is to do with a command shell.
The usual outcome is as seen in my screenshot below, which is from my Live USB stick on the Ubuntu 16.04.3 Unity on my Toshiba Satellite.
Note the change in prompt and colour and the hash instead of the dollar.
But that does not get you anywhere. Don't mind me, I write the way I speak the way I think, and I am only brainstorming. Think Dr Shaun Murphy on steroids and you get me.
I'll grab another cuppa coffee and think some more.
I am happy with the direction that Stan has taken over my night. All I can wonder, or rather wish for, is that you had at your mercy
another computer that you could either test the DVD install with or dualboot with Windows (which Stan knows about).
Because I am autistic (Asperger's, high functioning) I can often sense patterns where others don't and I can't help but think that there is a commonality with:
- the blasted intel microcode et al and
- maybe even the MSI mobo and
- this latest error
If you still have the USB stick available, there is a method I outlined here
https://www.linux.org/threads/hash-checking-rare-tips.13544/#post-45991 whereby you can check from within the stick itself, that the shasums match. I do not know whether that would work with an optical disk, and I don't have the DVDs to test it on, but I have CDs I could throw a Puppy or other small Linux on and check, while you proceed under Stan's tutelage?
I'll quaff some more java and think.
Cody, I thank you for your patience and good spirit. We have 3 great nations working side by side, all we need now is the UK (perhaps Jas,
@JasKinasis ?) to join us and we can level mountains
Cheers
Wizard