Theres literally an option in the linux mint installer to just wipe the drive and install, and it creates all partitions for you, if you dont understand what a partition is. You literally dont have to do anything except click the bubble and choose next.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Tried switching to Mint yesterday, it’s a struggle as the guide kinda failed to mention some detail that i have to google a bit, and the result is it fail to boot(not a bootable drive error). Might try again tonight or this weekend. Honestly i can’t see mass adoption if it’s this PITA to get it working(not plug and play like windows), unless it’s provided by the manufacturer.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The windows installer is exactly as complicated and even uses the same termino of primary and logical etc.
You literally just click the next button like 7 times. Ignore everything and it sets it all up correctly by default.
Why would you screw with advanced options for your first go. You would have the exact same problems if you did that on windows.
This just sounds like you purposefully made it harder for yourself so you could bitch.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Do you have anything else to add? Because being unhelpful doesn’t solve my issue, but to inflate your ego. Others tried, and i acknowledged my problem and will try other way to see if it helped. And you’re here to bitch about my unsuccessful attempt.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There’s some information missing. What is saying “not bootable drive”? You should make a primary partition on the target drive.
Also, even if you don’t have tpm, you may have some sort of secure boot preventing non-windows drives from booting.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What is saying “not bootable drive”? You should make a primary partition on the target drive.
When booting, after the bios screen it give me a black screen with that message, and refuse to boot.
Also, even if you don’t have tpm, you may have some sort of secure boot preventing non-windows drives from booting.
How do i navigate this? My machine is build around 2012-14 so not sure what its in. I had someone build it for me so i’m not sure what’s in it.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You will likely have to enter the bios/uefi setup with Del, F12 or something similar during boot and then search for the secure boot option and turn it off. Alternatively you may need to just properly set up the boot sequence and target the drive you want to actually boot from as the first boot option in the list.
Did you already install Linux Mint on a drive and your computer is now refusing to boot from it? Or are you actually at the step where you’ve made a bootable usb with the live iso and that’s what is not booting?
Balena Etcher work pretty well on windows to create a bootable USB live iso.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Did you already install Linux Mint on a drive and your computer is now refusing to boot from it?
This. I already tried setting the bios to boot from that particular drive and it gave me this message. Might have to try let the installer decide the partition like another comment suggested to rule it out, and try turning off secure boot if that fail.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There was not an option to autopartition the drive you picked? Having to manually make efi partition sounds suspect to me.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I tried installing it on a new ssd so to separate window and linux stuff(and also upgrade from a bunch of very old hdd), the guide recommend me to select “something else” and create the partition accordingly. I follow their official guide here
…readthedocs.io/…/install.html
At the time i’m installing, i still have my old drive plugged in so in fear of messed thing up badly and had my whole data erased, i chose to manage the partition myself. Should i unplug everything other than the new drive, and have the installer do it automatically?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is what I did. Made the installer mostly a bunch of hitting ‘next’.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, my plan is to isolate both OS so it doesn’t interact at all. Was thinking about wiping out the old drive after backing up after installing mint, doesn’t seems to work out lol.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yea! If in doubt, unplug every other drive. It’s a good practice.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I see, i’ll have to try that tonight
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Go ahead and unplug the drive - having it in doesn’t really help so why not give yourself the peace of mind?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, i should totally done that.