Hello, I am trying to get a new install done on Samsung Laptop. But when I try to boot to the USB install of the latest Start9 OS. I get an error I have never seen before. The error is “Shim SBAT data failed: Security policy violation. Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT Self-check failed: security policy violation.”
I have tried all three drives. And even tried flashing the USB drive again. Its a USB that I have used before. It worked fine. The laptop works fine with the existing Windows OS on it. It still boots up to the hardrive and has Bitcoin core running on it from a previous install. So I know the laptop is working.
I am at a loss to understand why it is doing this. Has anyone encountered this problem? Any ideas on what to try? Or where to go to maybe get an answer?
Thanks man. I tried that. And it did allow me to boot to the USB Drive. And I was able to install the Start OS on my secondary 1TB NVME drive. However my primary drive with the boot partition is on the old SATA 500 gig drive. And this it would not let me change. I could not add this to the boot order. It simply would not see it in the BIOS or in Windows Boot Manager. I tried everything. Including removing the SATA drive completely. Then it wouldn’t boot at all. After many hours. Quite a bit of research. And banging my head against the wall. I decided to use a server that a friend said he would give me. An old Dell Optiplex. Wow what a difference. Installed and booted almost instantly. Just like the instructions. Word to the wise. I have been informed that the BIOS on these Samsung laptops is not very forgiving. Beware. Unless you really want a project. I gave up on it.
I have run into another problem though. Its all up and running. And then I went to connect to the new Start OS server from my main laptop. And none of my browsers would accept the http://start.local. I check the network settings and they are on the same network. In fact I could ping my server from my laptop. I could even connect to the server from my laptop using http://192.16.1.10 which is the ip address of the server. For some reason it does not like Start.local. I guess it must be some DNS issue? Anyway I went ahead and did the entire root certificate download and accepted it. And confirmed it. But the start.local still doesn’t work. I am going on to other things to set it up. But if anyone has any suggestions on how to get the start.local working I would really appreciate it.
If you’re on windows, I’d go through making sure you have Bonjour installed/reinstalled and working properly :-/ Something we have to deal with for now. Check out this guide: Start9 | Connecting Locally
Thanks datamaycare. I do have bonjour installed. Is it supposed to be running in the background all of the time? I wasn’t sure what it was for? I thought it may have been to assist with the downloading and accepting of the root certificate.
It’s a really funky program, and not in the good way. Usually just uninstalling it and reinstalling it is going to solve your issue. Blame Apple and Windows being poor bed fellows.
Bonjour allows your PC to see mDNS addresses like we use in version 0.3.5 of StartOS. It was built for printers, this is how it’s being used . This will be fixed with our next major update coming soon.
Give that a shot… or twice. Let me know what happens
I tried reinstalling bonjour but it still did not work. But I noticed reading the doc, that I don’t need to use the IP address or start.local anymore. I just used my name that was assigned to me .local and that got me in fine.
start.local is only valid during Install, initial setup, and if your server drops into diag mode. Be sure to bookmark your server’s unique adjective-noun.local address. That’s it’s actual address.
Well I am three days into it. And its still not synced. It seems to go slower as I get further into it. It actually timed out one time. And said retrying. Is this ok? It appears to be picking up where it left off. I have a very fast network connection, and a 2 TB disk space. But it is crawling now. Should I keep going?
It keeps cycling through syncing and the 76.66% and timed out retrying. It is still making progress but slowing as it recovers from time outs. The green connected bar at the lower left is always connected. And my network is stable. I am using it the entire time. What do you guys think is going on?
. This will be fixed with our next major update coming soon.