#«Unable to find a medium» after install

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drowsy iris
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I installed Linux Mint 21.3 on my tablet with 32-bit UEFI (64-bit CPU). The system worked perfectly fine when booting from Live USB, and the Mint installer reported that installation was completed successfully (default installation without any custom changes), but after removing the USB drive and rebooting I get this message:

Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
```Can someone guide me, please? I don't even understand what's going on and why Mint can't find itself.
calm mist
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I have had that issue, and the news is not good. Ubuntu and its derivatives do not have 32bit EFI boot capability. The only distro I know that does this out of the box is Fedora, but Ubuntu/Mint might be tinkered into doing it. You are lacking the specific bootfile for that mode - it might be enough to find it somewhere online and drop it in, but no guarantees.

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To clarify, the live medium bypasses this issue by using a different boot method: It pretends to be a DVD in an optical drive. Another fallback may be enabling CSM (legacy boot), which will allow you to use classic MBR-style booting. The hardware I encountered some years back did not have that option, also an old Atom tablet.

drowsy iris
# calm mist I have had that issue, and the news is not good. Ubuntu and its derivatives do n...

Unfortunately, BIOS in my tablet has no CSM support. I tried putting bootia32.efi in EFI/boot from different sources, but I got different errors every time. I tried these:
https://github.com/lamadotcare/bootia32-efi
https://github.com/jfwells/linux-asus-t100ta/tree/master/boot

GitHub

EFI boot blob for devices using IA32 UEFI. Contribute to lamadotcare/bootia32-efi development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Getting Linux (Esp. Ubuntu) up and running well on the Asus Transformer T100 - jfwells/linux-asus-t100ta

calm mist
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That mirrors my experience. You may want to give Fedora a try. I recall that it had out-of-the-box support for this.

drowsy iris
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Yes, it looks like I'm going to have to try it. I've heard a lot about Linux's problems with touchscreen and auto-rotation support, and the first time I really encountered them after installing Arch+Gnome. Cinnamon Mint works perfectly right out of the box, and I really hope Fedora will too.