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    Trying to Install Mint 21 Cinnamon from DVD on older HP Laptop - Black Screen After Selecting from Boot Menu

    sincere thanks for the detailed explanation and thoughts. I did use an old dvd-r with a newer external burner on my primary pc but the disc is quite old and i used max burn speed. I will be able to try some more tonight after work. Thank you so much again.
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    Trying to Install Mint 21 Cinnamon from DVD on older HP Laptop - Black Screen After Selecting from Boot Menu

    Thank you so much. I created the dvd because I wasn’t able to do a USB boot. This machine has 4GB of ram and 64bit amd turion. I was thinking I’d try another distro but not sure which one would be best for this machine considering it’s age.
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    Trying to Install Mint 21 Cinnamon from DVD on older HP Laptop - Black Screen After Selecting from Boot Menu

    Haven’t tried another distro yet. Any recommendations for a machine this old? It has 4GB of ram. Yes - did the checksum of the iso.
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    Trying to Install Mint 21 Cinnamon from DVD on older HP Laptop - Black Screen After Selecting from Boot Menu

    I created a Mint 21 Cinnamon DVD and am attempting to Install on an old HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop that has an AMD TURION64 and an Nvidia GEFORCE GO 7150m Graphics Card. After I boot from dvd, I see the screen that shows “GNU GRUB VERSION 2.06” at the top, and then the following options below...
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