- cross-posted to:
- bloomer@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- bloomer@hexbear.net
- Rufus to write it onto a 4 GB or more flash drive.
That’s the entire post, there’s nothing else. Feel free to ask any questions.
That’s the entire post, there’s nothing else. Feel free to ask any questions.
I actually have a question there, I put mint on an old laptop to try it out before putting it on my main PC, but when I rebooted it, I found that Linux Mint was gone, leaving only the bootloader. I feel that it might be a pebkac issue, but I’m not certain, and I wanna be sure I’m not gonna have the same problem when I go to install it on my main rig.
A corrupted install is concerning. Did you manually partition your drives or did you let mint don’t the partitioning for you and is this a dual boot setup (since windows likes to take control of your boot drive)?
If the laptop has secure boot you want to also turn that off as well if you haven’t already.
I think I had a previous dual-boot install with Ubuntu, not sure about secure boot, how would I find out and turn it off?
You would have to go into your computer’s bios/uefi settings which is different for every OEM and so you’ll have to look it up. Most likely something went wrong during installation and you can try again.
Alrighty, I’ll give it another shot testing on my old laptop this weekend (it’s an old Toshiba satellite with the built-in speakers shot).