" Installing in a VM works."
Does the VM have more space than your disk?
A hard install will load more drivers than a VM
Ok, could you perhaps try setting your VM to UEFI… or maybe set your machine to legacy boot?
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Works. In VM.
Well posted there, no change
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Do you mean works with UEFI in VM?
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Yes. VM disk size same.
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OK… we can conclude you are setting up UEFI install correctly
Therefore the fault has to be the disk.
Does the disk have a GPT partition table? … or is it MSDOS partitions?
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It’s GPT type.
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That is good, Solus needs GPT for UEFI
Are you making an EFI partition and a / partition during your install
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Yes. EFI 1024 MB, fat32, boot esp flags. Root 240GB, ext4.
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That sounds correct.
Did you mount the root and ESP partitions ?
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Yes. EFI on /boot and root on /.
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Maybe try EFI on /boot/efi ?
I am not sure what Solus requires.
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Solus requires /boot, says otherwhise wrong mount and only will format.
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OK, that is unusual… most distros use /boot/efi
It will obscure the previous contents of /boot
I can not see any mistake in your install.
We have to check the disk.
Can you use smartctl on the disk and show us its output please.
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SmartCTL does not work, as I don‘t use NVME… the target device is the classic /dev/sdX,
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Oh found how to.
==START OF INFORMATION SECTION==
Vendor: SSD
Product: SanDisk 3.2Gen1
Revision: 1.00
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 250‘148‘290‘560 bytes (250 GB)
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Serial number: —-
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Aug 30 17:22:51 2025 CEST
SMART Support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: enabled
Temperature warning: disabled or not supported
== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ==
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature: 0C
Drive Trip Temperature: 0C
Error: counter logging not supported
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There is no information
Did you do smartctl -a /dev/...
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Yes, smartctl -a /dev/sdb.
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OK, we cant do the disk check properly.
Another thing that may be causing it is the Solus drivers.
Lets start with network connection. Are you using WiFi to connect to internet?
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Yes. My Wifi adapter is Intel.
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Is there any option to try an install with another network interface as the primary network interface… eg do you have an ethernet port and could you use a cable?
What I am trying to do is test if the wifi drivers are the problem . By substituting another interface you get different drivers.
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