[Solved] Booting into Black screen after Install and Starting Windows Once. [Intel Metor Lake issue] | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:08 PM

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Helloo, pretty much the title.

I installed Windows (better said Atlas OS), then installed Linux Mint with Dual Boot, and Linux runs fine, until i start windows for the first time, and restart the laptop after that I get the dual boot screen, and if I choose Linux Mint Cinnamon, I get a black screen.

I can boot via recovery mode, and running boot repair via USB stick live environment doesn't help.
It tells me that nvram is locked.

Stuff I tried:

Going back to an older Snapshot (through recovery boot)
Boot Repair
Deactivating Secure Boot
Reinstalling Mint (Same thing happened again)

I've read that the black screen can be due to a Nvidia GPU (which i don't have), or due to secure boot, and windows overriding some stuff in the boot menu.

Previously i've used Belana Etcher to get Linux on the USB, this time i'll use Rufus and will go specifically for UEFI to check if that helps

Intel Ultra 7 155h
16gb Ram
500gb m2

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:11 PM

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ensure Windows Fast Startup is off in the control panel of Atlas OS (power options, control what the buttons do, show unavailable options)

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if it has that.

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else do powercfg /h off in an administrator command prompt or admin powershell.

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:15 PM

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first, ty for the extremely fast answer

couldn't find the exact option, so I just went directly through admin powershell

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:20 PM

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yeah. needed for dualboot. Hope you have better luck doing a UEFI install using Rufus

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fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:21 PM

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so now reinstalling Linux with Uefi and hoping it doesn't reoccur?

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:21 PM

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or try a straight reboot first

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does your grub menu present the following:
Linux Mint
Linux Mint Advanced options
Windows boot manager
UEFI firmware options

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:22 PM

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yes

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:22 PM

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so it's already uefi-installed

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but u can try a reinstall. only takes 10 minutes on an SSD

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should show an option to "replace Mint 22.1"

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just start usb as pic shows.

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:25 PM

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straight reboot is same issue

btw, it doesn't show for me a uefi and a normal version

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only the usb stick normally, but given that it's already uefi installed i think that's not that much of a problem?

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btw it says
"Erase Linux Mint 22.1 Xia (22.1) and reinstall"

dunno what exactly the xia means

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i just realized, i think my uefi/bios also has a fast boot option i'll turn that off too in a bit

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:33 PM

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Xia is codename

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:35 PM

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for the version?

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btw, so that i understand the issue (if it is due to the fast startup)
It's pretty much Windows saying "my fast startup is the important one, don't care about the Linux Boot files"?

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(extremely simplified)

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nope, still getting black screen

Installed Mint new, restarted pc, turned off fast boot, booted into windows, restarted pc, booted Linux aaand black screen

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in boot repair it says locked-Nvram detected. Please do not forget to make your uefi firmware boot on the linux mint 22.1 Xia (22.1) entry

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:53 PM

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ya that's nothing.

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that's just that it can't set the boot order

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but if 'ubuntu' appears at top of your uefi-bios boot list it's fine

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dig thru some 'black screen' posts here. some ppl have to do some weird parameter add to the linux startup

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:55 PM

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alrighty

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:55 PM

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such as nomodeset

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or some amd something

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:55 PM

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btw
"LVM State"
Physical Volumes: not ok (BAD)
Volume Groups: ok (good)

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whats that

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 6:56 PM

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did u set LVM / encryption during Mint install?

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should be off, the defaults

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 6:57 PM

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you mean home folder encryption?
did not activate it

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 7:12 PM

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light osprey dig thru some 'black screen' posts here. some ppl have to do some weird paramete...

someone had a similar issue with the same CPU Series and said that when they used Kernel 6.11 it worked link but i don't really understand how to potentially download a different kernel

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 7:17 PM

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well if u can boot the first time into the installed linux, you can get it from the update manager in the view menu: kernels. need internet working

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 7:19 PM

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can i also just do it in a recovery mode boot?

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 7:19 PM

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maybe

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 7:32 PM

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LETS GO

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it was the kernel version, it seems to be very very oddly specific with what works with Meteor Lake

E.g.
6.8.0-53 Generic, 6.11.0-17 generic works

i nopw went with 6.11.0-17 generic
Booted into Windows, Restarted, Booted into mint, and i got into mint

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will now update (everything but the kernel, reboot, and if it still works, will mark as solved)

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[Solved] Booting into Black screen after Install and Starting Windows Once. [Intel Metor Lake issue]

light osprey Mar 31, 2025, 7:52 PM

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👏

fair spindle Mar 31, 2025, 8:01 PM

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i appreciate you and i appreciate your help! Thank you Helpful Citizen! 🙂

#[Solved] Booting into Black screen after Install and Starting Windows Once. [Intel Metor Lake issue]