Unable to install Linux

[xp4eternity]

Is that the only hard drive in the tower/laptop ?

if it is, look to see what you can change that to

heres the image again.

 

[Condobloke]

yup....just saw it.....put a tick in the ahci/nvme

Then f10 to savechanges and exit

 

[xp4eternity]

Disable Fastboot

I have these options: Minimal, Thorough, Auto. Currently set to minimal

 

[Condobloke]

minimal is ok

 

[xp4eternity]

the furthest im able to go now is up to multiple error codes.

 

[Condobloke]

ok.

If you have not already changed usb stick, I think you had better try that now

 

[xp4eternity]

ok.

If you have not already changed usb stick, I think you had better try that now

i already did that. i was first on the 4 GB. and then i moved to the 32 GB. those are the only 2 i have.

 

[Condobloke]

ok

 

[Condobloke]

I will ask for assistance from two other members.

I am not sure if they are online or not. They will be made aware of this topic.

@osprey

@Brickwizard

 

[bob466]

I don't know why you're having so much trouble...have you tried installing Mint Cinnamon 21.2 or 21.1 ?

Once you select...Erase Disk and Install Linux Mint...you go to the next step...Select your Timezone and go from there.

 

[xp4eternity]

21.3 But i can give a shot on 21.2

 

[xp4eternity]

reverting back to RAID. the other one doesent boot into windows. Got thrown into Auto Repair.

 

[Condobloke]

if you really want to live dangerously, you could open gparted after you have booted to the usb stick.....and format the drive....to ext4.....which will completely wipe the drive....Completely.

This is a drastic move....so think well about whether you want the windows install on there or now.

If you choose to do that....you would the boot to the usb stick, and when it loads, click on 'Install Linuz Mint' on the desktop there

You may wish to hear other opinions before doing that....either that or sleep on it

 

[xp4eternity]

not going that route. i just want to wipe windows and install linux. the reason i had to load windows was to get cinammon 21.2 in order to test if thats the case.

 

[xp4eternity]

this is off-topic on what im about to send but as i was going to fetch the iso for 21.2.....
.....Idk what UN Has to do with Linux

 

[xp4eternity]

not going that route. i just want to wipe windows and install linux. the reason i had to load windows was to get cinammon 21.2 in order to test if thats the case.

im going to prep that iso tommorow. im going to bed in a few.

 

[Condobloke]

Linux Mint 21.2 "Victoria" - Linux Mint

Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.

linuxmint.com

 

[Brickwizard]

I will ask for assistance from two other members.

Good morning,
is this is a fairly new machine ? Thinks....
The machine may have an M2 slot but is it NVME compatible [not all laptops are] if fairly recent this should not be a problem.
Check the onboard settings, Windows quick start [fast boot] OFF, windows secure boot OFF
my desktop has NVME ON Raid OFF
check for integrity of Drive and partitions, if installing Linux clean [deleting everything on the drive] make sure there are no hidden partitions, particularly at the start of the drive as this will stop Linux installing

 

[osprey]

looking in the Bios and ran into SATA/NVMe operation. it is set to RAID. it mentions something about "LInux kernal VMD driver" must be loaded"

Unless you have RAID, (that is a redundancy set up with, usually, multiple hard drives), the machine should be set to AHCI.

If there's a BIOS/UEFI setting for "Windows" or "Other" or maybe "Legacy" or even "Unix", choose the item that is not "Windows". If "Unix" is there, choose that.

Then start a new install and see how that goes.

 

[Condobloke]

I forgot to include this link from earlier in the day.

Apparently this has happened on Linux.org before....albeit with no solution

https://www.linux.org/threads/problem-installing-linux-mint.27844/