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 3 days 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 3 days ago
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.