Installation failed with error code '2'

[Juhayer Al Wasif]

I have installed Porteus-KDE-v5.0-x86_64.iso with Etcher in a usb, then booted it in Graphics Mode . Every time I run porteus installer and try to install it with bootloader in ext4 partition/dev/sda5, there is a message shown in Konsole that

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Installation failed with error code'2'

Afterwords it does not boot and no bootloader was in installed. Only the files were copied by the Porteus Installer to /dev/sda5.

[Ed_P]

Hello Juhayer Al Wasif. Did you review the notes in the ISO's USB_INSTALLATION.txt file?

[Juhayer Al Wasif]

Just read, should I go for EFI method or BIOS method, if I have UEFI

[Ed_P]

should I go for EFI method or BIOS method, if I have UEFI

EFI

I use USB drives 32 GB, or smaller, and format the whole drive as FAT32, copy all the ISO folders and files to the drive then run the Porteus-installer for the system I am running.

[Juhayer Al Wasif]

do I need to add this line "from=/mnt/sdb2" to the to the porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg file?

[Juhayer Al Wasif]

Ok, I have tried to install it in my hard disk but everytime I am getting error code 2

[Ed_P]

do I need to add this line "from=/mnt/sdb2" to the to the porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg file?

No.

What OS are you running the install from? I seem to remember getting the code 2 error when I installed 5.0 to a new USB drive but when I reran it it worked. I think I was running it from a bash script I use to copy the files and etc in Porteus but when I simply clicked on the install app in a terminal window it worked. The install app was the one on the USB drive.

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How are you trying to boot the USB drive, using grub2 or the machine's boot options? Do you have the machine's Secure Boot option disabled?