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quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:17 PM

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I've got an old Fujitsu A-searies laptop that I wanted to bring back to life with LM Mate. It used to run Win7, but I thought that Mate would be better for it.
The installation boots from my Ventoy just fine, installation process is fine, but once I remove the installation medium, and it restarts, it goes into the boot menu and asks from where I'd like to boot. My hard is set as the 1st option, but even after I select it, it decides to just return to the menu.
When I go into the bios, there's no fast boot option to disable. I tried doing a 2nd installation, but the same thing happens. I am stuck in boot menu.
I am quite new to LM, have had Cinnamon on another laptop for about 3 months now, and have been able to fix issues I've had on it. I thought this was going to be a breeze, but it turns out I thought wrong and Linux has once again made me feel like a complete IT noob.

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 2:22 PM

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quasi hamlet I've got an old Fujitsu A-searies laptop that I wanted to bring back to life wit...

when was the laptop made?

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:24 PM

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mortal schooner when was the laptop made?

Like, 2010 or 2011?

pure quartz Dec 11, 2024, 2:25 PM

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weir

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i have a laptop from 2010-2009 and it dosent do stuff like this at all

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:27 PM

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pure quartz i have a laptop from 2010-2009 and it dosent do stuff like this at all

My friend's laptop from 2007 did not do this, and he installed xfe on it lmao

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This is what pops up before it takes me to the boot menu

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 2:32 PM

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quasi hamlet

thank you a lot for the screenshots. it doesnt seem to support the modern UEFI standard

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https://discord.com/channels/628978428019736619/1296130276514332742

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please follow this guide, it might work after

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also do the first step and share the output here
"Please boot up the Linux Mint USB drive. In a terminal, run efibootmgr. If the output states EFI variables are not supported on your system", it means it's causing the issue. "

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:33 PM

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Okay, will do!

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@mortal schooner you were right!

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 2:39 PM

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no you actually cant type correctly and you misspelled the command

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:39 PM

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Oh wow, my dyslexia is a problem, sorry-

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Either way, it's not supported 😅

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 2:42 PM

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👍 follow the rest of the guide then

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:42 PM

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Thank you!

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 2:58 PM

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@mortal schooner Dumb ass question: Should I leave the "Mount point:" empty?

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 2:58 PM

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No, put it to /

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 3:00 PM

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And now I just continue as normal, yeah?

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 3:02 PM

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correct

quasi hamlet Dec 11, 2024, 4:04 PM

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Forgot to update, all went well!

mortal schooner Dec 11, 2024, 4:05 PM

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hip hip and hooray

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pepeyay

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