compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:27 PM

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I am tired 😩, I have been figuring it out since last 3 days,

Made a usb bootable flash drive successfully.
2)booted through usb and live session worked fine.
3)Started installation process and everything worked fine
⚠️ Problem: There is no os system on hard disk . What to do?
I also prioritised hard disk while booting in bios .

I DONT KNOW MAN I AM NEW TO LINUX AND PROGRAMMING AND I AM NOT EVEN ABLE TO INSTALL AN OS😔😔

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:29 PM

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Did the installation finish successfully, or did it throw an error at the end?

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:29 PM

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It was successful and asked to restart

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:30 PM

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Then please enter your BIOS/UEFI. You know how to do that?

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:30 PM

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Yes

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:31 PM

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You want to check if your boot options are set to UEFI or CSM.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:31 PM

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2 second please

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Boot mode is on legacy

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:32 PM

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Select UEFI without CSM, then save and reboot, see if that does something.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:33 PM

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Okay

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:34 PM

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I meant try to boot, not enter UEFI again.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Yeah I did it and laptop turned off

jade narwhal Dec 10, 2024, 7:36 PM

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compact egret Yeah I did it and laptop turned off

can you boot to linux live again?

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:36 PM

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Yes I can

jade narwhal Dec 10, 2024, 7:36 PM

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I recognise that UI layout, it is really defective. #1310723233762377828 message this is a silmar thread, though there was no clear solution.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:38 PM

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So what can I do now?

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Wait the screen loaded

jade narwhal Dec 10, 2024, 7:41 PM

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compact egret Wait the screen loaded

efibootmgr in terminal and share what it says

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:42 PM

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zenith spire I meant try to boot, not enter UEFI again.

Loveeee you broooooooooooooo that small fcking change made my linux boot from harddisk

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:43 PM

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compact egret Loveeee you broooooooooooooo that small fcking change made my linux boot from ha...

That was the point. You installed the modern boot method, but your UEFI was hard-locked into the old one.

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You should open the Disks tool from the menu and show us how your drive looks now, just to be safe.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:45 PM

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Thanks G 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. I have old ass laptop and trying to figure out my way into programming from scratch.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:45 PM

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zenith spire You should open the Disks tool from the menu and show us how your drive looks no...

Wait a second

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:46 PM

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compact egret Thanks G 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. I have old ass laptop and trying to figure ou...

You perhaps want to start with bash scripting, which you can do in the terminal.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:46 PM

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My friend jokingly removed usb drive , will that be a problem?

main canyon Dec 10, 2024, 7:47 PM

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compact egret My friend jokingly removed usb drive , will that be a problem?

yes

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:47 PM

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compact egret My friend jokingly removed usb drive , will that be a problem?

You should always unmount before removing, but no, unlikely to cause a problem right now.
What you want to do is get an SSD to upgrade this. Much faster, and your HDD already has bad sectors.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:47 PM

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compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:48 PM

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zenith spire You should always unmount before removing, but no, unlikely to cause a problem r...

Let me tell you my fan also don't work

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:49 PM

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compact egret Let me tell you my fan also don't work

As long as the laptop is idling, it should not be audible. If you want to check CPU temperature, type inxi -s on the terminal.
inxi -B shows battery
You can figure out the rest.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:50 PM

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69.0 C, fan speed:0

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:50 PM

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I guess your fan is dead, or the fan controller is not supported. HP makes shit laptops that often do not work great with Linux.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:51 PM

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It's a 2012 elitebook 8470p 😔that's what I can do for now

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Can you help me with what you said about unmounting thing?

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:54 PM

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compact egret Can you help me with what you said about unmounting thing?

When a USB drive is plugged, there should be a symbol in the system tray (bottom right) that you can click to unmount it, just like in Windows. Most things are fairly similar to Windows on Mint Cinnamon, that is why it is recommended to newbies so much.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:54 PM

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compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:55 PM

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zenith spire When a USB drive is plugged, there should be a symbol in the system tray (bottom...

But now usb drive is not in so?

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Tell me where the issue lie? I mean what if we do not unmount it

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 7:56 PM

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compact egret But now usb drive is not in so?

So the icon does not show. If you unplug without unmounting, any file operations that were going on will be interrupted, and you can end up with broken files, or a broken drive. Since you were not doing anything with it before unplugging, it should be fine this time.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 7:57 PM

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Okay so should I try to restart laptop without usb drive this time?

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Wait I plugged it in and these files showed up

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@zenith spire

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:01 PM

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compact egret Wait I plugged it in and these files showed up

You are done with the drive for now, it was only for installing. If you plug it in, Mint will automatically mount its partitions. You could practice unmounting it properly, but it has no further use right now. What you should do is go through the Welcome window, it guides you to set some things up. Make sure you set up Timeshift, so you get savegames of your system, and can reload if you fuck something up.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:08 PM

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@zenith spire bro which option should I choose?

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:09 PM

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The one you have, rsync. The other is only unlocked when you figure out how to run BTRFS, which you are not using right now.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:09 PM

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Okay

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Timeshift is active it shows

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:10 PM

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Great, it should make a snapshot soon on its own. You can tell it to make one right now if you want to.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:10 PM

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Okay so I am creating one

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Curunir after creating that snapshot or timeshift can I just unplug usb and restart laptop?

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Nothing gonna crash right? Because previously my installer crashed 5 times

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:13 PM

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Sure, you could have unplugged the USB long ago, it is not needed for any of this.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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Does it take this long to create snapshot?

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@zenith spire

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:19 PM

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It looks like you already have a snapshot. What you want to do is go through the rest of the Welcome window, set up stuff.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:29 PM

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Learning things every minute, any specific suggestions for things to setup?

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:30 PM

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Definitely pick local update mirrors that are near you. Have a look at Driver Manager and see if it has options for you. Other than that, explore, look at Software Manager to see what you can install.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:34 PM

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"No driver needed" it shows. Brother I just want to boot this linux mint laptop with hard disk , can I just restart now?

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zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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Sure, you can restart any time.

compact egret Dec 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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Thanks 🙏🏻 this community and you are great.

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@zenith spire

zenith spire Dec 10, 2024, 8:37 PM

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Sure. You do not need to ping me constantly, I do look into threads when they get updated.

#Bootdevice not found,no OS on hard disk

I DONT KNOW MAN I AM NEW TO LINUX AND PROGRAMMING AND I AM NOT EVEN ABLE TO INSTALL AN OS😔😔