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just a question !
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Amicalement,

Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german

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On Sat, 4/25/2026 7:53 AM, german newsgroups wrote:

just a question !

Installers use squashfs for major parts of the file storage for the install. You can open the squashfs if you want, and play with the individual files.

There is a tendency these days, for the installer to try to install
in UEFI GPT mode. A refusal of the OS to boot, is not the end of the
world, as you can attempt to fix the booting using Boot Repair DVD.
In some cases, if the hard drive ended up in GPT mode, you may need a
BIOS Boot Partition (1MB) for the repair to work with.

# Picture of what the Boot Repair DVD looks like when booted.

https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/boot-repair-cd/screenshots/brd.png/max/max/1

# Site is "protected" by the Cloudflare browser-sniffer

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/

boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso 2023-12-23 2.6 GB

"krysk Edited 2025-12-31

No longer works with UEFI. Rufus warns that the ISO contains UEFI bootloader
that has been revoked and will produce Security Violation screen on an
up to date UEFI system. They advise to get more up to date version, that
does no exist here. Acer E15 laptop, Windows 10 and Ubuntu installation.
"

You can try turning Secure Boot off and using the Boot Repair.

Paul
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Le 25/04/2026 à 16:33, Paul a écrit :

On Sat, 4/25/2026 7:53 AM, german newsgroups wrote:

just a question !

Installers use squashfs for major parts of the file storage for the install. You can open the squashfs if you want, and play with the individual files.

There is a tendency these days, for the installer to try to install
in UEFI GPT mode. A refusal of the OS to boot, is not the end of the
world, as you can attempt to fix the booting using Boot Repair DVD.
In some cases, if the hard drive ended up in GPT mode, you may need a
BIOS Boot Partition (1MB) for the repair to work with.

# Picture of what the Boot Repair DVD looks like when booted.

https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/boot-repair-cd/screenshots/brd.png/max/max/1

# Site is "protected" by the Cloudflare browser-sniffer

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/

boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso 2023-12-23 2.6 GB

"krysk Edited 2025-12-31

No longer works with UEFI. Rufus warns that the ISO contains UEFI bootloader
that has been revoked and will produce Security Violation screen on an
up to date UEFI system. They advise to get more up to date version, that
does no exist here. Acer E15 laptop, Windows 10 and Ubuntu installation.
"

You can try turning Secure Boot off and using the Boot Repair.

Paul

ok paul ! but i think i know the sequence for uefi boot, and i never
need touch it...it's here...

but how we say to a newbe squashfs is a big zip and YOU don't have the
tool, the way to put the files in part ? if i understand well you !!!

i like the kindy process install linux mint ! i don't why, but i like
to think...the process...know what are they my chips !!! i'm wrong ?
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Amicalement,

Frenchy Friendly, & French touch !

german
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:33:20 -0400, Paul wrote:

Installers use squashfs for major parts of the file storage for the
install. You can open the squashfs if you want, and play with the
individual files.

squashfs is read-only, but it is possible to use overlayfs to create a
writable view of that filesystem, by using a separate area of working
storage to hold the amendments.

I set this up for a Teltonika 4G data modem, which runs a Linux distro
based on OpenWRT, for a client. The root filesystem uses squashfs, but
they wanted to make some small customizations without replacing or
re-flashing the ROM or whatever it is you have to do. ;)
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