(solved) Why am I unable to install no matter what I tried??? Just why???

[onyx bison]

I made two live boot usbs,
With medicat ventoy,
( Why not normal ventoy? Cuz ventoy likes to die a lot )

Specs - amd r9 7900 (non-x)
Mobo - gigabyte gaming x ax v2
( Don't worry it didn't work on my asus proart x670e wifi either )
Gpu - asus 750ti 2gb pc
Ram - ddr5 32 gb running at stock speeds ( I don't overclock them )
Storage - 2 tb hdd partitioned in
30gb for root, 100gb for home, 30gb for root of another os, rest is is storage.

First try, hdmi plugged 750ti gpu.
And it showed me only black screen.
Num-lock worked.
So I connected it to Mobo hdmi
In the first time mint 22.1 got installed successfully that way.

Now since I wanted it to work with my nvidia gpu I installed 550 driver and guess what drivers installed.
I then shutdown pc.
Disconnected hdmi from Mobo connected to GPU.
And I get nothing.... Not even black screen just froze ad m logo looping around for over an hour.

Then I decided to reinstall guess what?
Now it won't go past install multi media step.

Yes, I tried checking,unchecking, it, connecting not connecting internet.

It didn't work.
I can use all the apps usable in live boot but can't install the damned os why???

All this time from the beginning
Secure boot - disabled, all keys had cleared,
Csm support - disabled,
Hdd - ahci,
Raid - disabled,
Fast boot - disabled,
Tpm - all tpms disabled,
Had and have Disconnected other drives,
Bios to the latest version,
All connections to hdd checked they are right multiple times swapped sata cables,

What am I doing wrong?
This used to be so easy on skylake CPUs and on those Mobos never had such issues on them.

And this is the same issue with other linux I tried, fedora, pop they just won't install no matter what.
Yes even with just ventoy, rufus without medicat.
But the same usbs can install windows immediately and successfully.

And this has been going on for 6 months now, I had given up 6 months ago bcuz of the edge iso and stuff.

Also, the graph,
Previously during successful install at the stage/step when selected or unselected install multimedia step, when pressed continue
The cpu graphs would run high, that they would show activity.

But now they don't show any activity at all, it goes up and goes down immediately and keeps on loading cursor.

[real cradle]

might be the funky gpu

u can also try UUI from pendrivelinux.com if it at least gets you booted in live session - WITHOUT using the compat. mode option in mint's live grub menu

then from there can look further into it

go to system information in mint live start menu, and upload full report

[onyx bison]

The install doesn't work even without any gpu

[onyx bison]

Tell me the commands for the report

[real cradle]

try mint 21.3 then. the odd time 22 installer flakes

[onyx bison]

I am outside right now, I spent over 15 hours doing everything I can.

Yes, I tried 21.3 , 22, 22.1 all give the same results.

The best results so far are given by 22.1

[real cradle]

inxi -Fxxxz in terminal, then copy/paste here

[onyx bison]

Do you think it might be bios issue, as in something in bios changed but bios ain't able to show it.

I will report back as soon as possible.

[onyx bison]

here, even right now i am in live boot and after waiting for 15 minutes and no activity shown in task manager and the hdmi is plugged to mobo not gpu. here is the text

[onyx bison]

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Now,
I tried with gpu removed
Yep still the same issue

[onyx bison]

this one is from gpu disconnected

[real cradle]

what part of the install gives trouble. describe the effect.

I would say, try installing with the nvidia gpu physically removed

and make 2 or 3 partitions ahead of time on the target drive

using gparted. one for EFI (first), main one for OS (ext4), and one linux-swap

First prepare the target drive for install.

then like this; (home partition and swap partition are optional)

make the ESP first with specs shown, then hit the apply checkmark in gparted toolbar.

once it is made, right click it on its details line: manage flags> put the boot and esp flags on it.

[onyx bison]

it is stuck here forever

[real cradle]

once in the manual installer, (the something else option) ^^ simply hit "change" for the ext4 partition, and put USE AS: to ext4 journ. fs, and mountpoint to / (doesnt even need format since you already did) then adjust the bootloader dropdown to be heeding my red text shown above

[real cradle]

try the manual steps as i wrote from very start

[onyx bison]

Tell me will destroy/deleted/format already present data on hdd if I click on create gpt partition table?

[real cradle]

yes

it will and it warns as such

[onyx bison]

okay... that i cant do then.

but on the other hand i already have what you said on the drive. all the partitions, you said and such, and formatted too. but there is also an ext 4 partition at bottom lvl where my data is, yes it is also ext4. formatted

[real cradle]

did u make efi partition at start of disk?

show a pic from DISKS app of it

[real cradle]

tag me if you need assistance with the manual installer page

if im around, I'll help

[onyx bison]

I am trying to install something,
Fedora right now a peculiar moment I saw.

So right now can't share/click screenshot ( it's in the process of installation )

[real cradle]

that's gparted, not Disks

change the flags on partition 1

also, in gparted, go to the View menu, click 'device info`

@onyx bison

[real cradle]

.

[onyx bison]

Disks didn't load up so I sent this. It's still loading..... Disks app

[real cradle]

damn

that's concerning.

anyway, send a new ss of gparted after changing the flags on p1, and with the view thing

[onyx bison]

Okay, so this was weird. Restarted and disks worked immediately

[onyx bison]

is this the one you were talking about

[real cradle]

yes. u should highlight each partition, click the gear, do 'edit fs' and make a short succinct label for all the unlabelled ones

[onyx bison]

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until you come back online, the funny weird thing. apparently the other way to install linux mint is to install fedora before hand. someone had pointed out there exp on reddit comment. then i realized the first try i gave to mint yesterday, it indeed was installed on fedora. but to install fedora i took 4-5 hours (referring to loading screen)

oh okay you are here, brb

[real cradle]

they're all unlabelled, except the one saying data

partition name =/= label

in gparted:

change the flags on partition 1 of the 2 TB to what i mentioned
also, in gparted, go to the View menu, click 'device info`

[onyx bison]

this is where i am now, this just finished loading/processing

loading gparted.......... this is gonna take a while

[real cradle]

perhaps some fs errors?

[onyx bison]

okay it loaded up

[real cradle]

u can use DISKS, highlight each ext4 partition, hit gear icon, and "check filesystem"

[onyx bison]

the home partition 100gb one is taking long to check the first two efi and root it reported them as undamaged, i was wandering what if a hidden flag is assigned to a partition

[real cradle]

just look at your gparted ss above

just p1 needs flag changed really

[onyx bison]

i will post another ss after its done its scanning drives thing

here

[real cradle]

looks good. did all the fs checks come out clean?

[onyx bison]

efi , root, root 2 came clean, home is still going on....

[real cradle]

at that rate, sda7 will take all night

and I can't really say if that's normal or not

I don't think fs check supposed to take so long

maybe on a partition that has 10 trillion directories

hopefully your 'data' one doesn't.

[onyx bison]

it does have a lot of em

[real cradle]

In Disks app, you can also click the dots menu at top right, and look at SMART data. To read if the disk has many bad or reallocated sectors, or high rate of errors

[onyx bison]

you know, i think this it for me. my finals are coming. i cant spend more time right now. but this trick it works, now i didnt try it intentionally but since i already had a fedora which would not boot same no screen no matter what, yesterday i thought may be 22.1 might have stuff fixed until now, and my got, it mint got installed and worked until it didnt................... and then while looking for solution i found that comment. the other way seems to format the entire drive....... yeah or to get a ssd, but not enough time to tinker around anymore.

[onyx bison]

unclickable until it finished running those checks, lol. it wont stop/cancel checking either

[onyx bison]

edited

good night bro

Ah, right while the check was going I tried again installing it was again stuck at loading.... Multimedia codec step.

[onyx bison]

Okay,
I I had two hdds,
One where I couldn't install Linux.
Other just recently started giving me issues when my psu blasted.

• luckily I had bought a 8tb drive I managed to copy paste the data I needed with the help of live boot
• now the pain in the butt hdd on which windows was installed and started giving issues after psu blast,
  I managed to install Linux mint on it. Successfully no issues.

But I am hesitant to install nvidia drivers.
Right now using igpu of amd 7900.

[real cradle]

if you want to experiment, first ensure secure boot it off. You can check with certainty in linux with mokutil --sb-state

then if the nvidia gpu is made within last 5 years, go with the recommended driver from Driver Manager.

now the pain in the butt hdd on which windows was installed and started giving issues after psu blast,
Is this the Samsung SSD (Evo) shown in the pics above? @onyx bison

[onyx bison]

it was made in 2016 asus 750ti 2gb oc edition

[onyx bison]

nope, it is a 2tb wd hdd

my first ever screenshot on this system!!

[real cradle]

probably the "470" driver would work a lot better on that

[real cradle]

show Disks app picture of it (full window ss)

(press alt+print)

[real cradle]

ok that's ur working EFI that has booted linux (p1) now show the actual drive with linux

[onyx bison]

i have the same feeling, i remember all issues started poping up after the 500 series drivers, and in those times i had shifted back to 435 version drivers

[onyx bison]

my bad,

[real cradle]

i'd recommend relabelling the partitions like last time. jsut so it shows easier if troubleshooting via terminal

eg: lsblk -f

so this is solved anyway. If need addition help on other topics, make new support thread in appropriate channel.

[onyx bison]

it seems during format it removed the labels, the non formatted partition during installation its label is still there

[real cradle]

yes. and u can see that linux relies in this case on your nvme to boot. just remember that.

dont mess with it though.

[onyx bison]

are u sure? this is another hdd, i had made sure to install efi to 2tb hdd only, this ss is of another hdd which had linux mint in it. it still glows blue but doesnt show any os while booting

oh right the star thing

[real cradle]

i heard it's a bug or u didnt set it right. did u set it to the dev name of the device for bootlader and the partition number,.. or just the dev name of device

[onyx bison]

i had set the bootloader to sda only hdd part

[onyx bison]

the line below change

i had set to the 2tb hdd

[real cradle]

sdc isn't even this linux install.

sda is.

i can see it all from the lsblk result

[onyx bison]

i did say sda

[onyx bison]

.

[real cradle]

i meant for this ss

[onyx bison]

yes, i had shared that ss to show, that all the three drive efi is glowing

[real cradle]

yeh dont worry about it

[onyx bison]

ah,, before we part

[real cradle]

if it's blue, all it means is it's selected by your mouse

if it's system vital, (or referenced in fstab file) it has a star

[onyx bison]

i need one last help, there is no linux mint app to see temps and percents like hwinfo, can you recommend me some apps or channels plz?

[real cradle]

if it's mounted, it shows a play icon within the partition itself

yes install psensor. then configure it how you like in its options

[onyx bison]

can it give me nvme and hdd temps too?

[real cradle]

if the graph area doesnt show right away, just muck with it abit.. drag the separator between graph n sensors table

[real cradle]

do watch -n 1 sensors in terminal. see if it even picks them up

[onyx bison]

the ui customization, i dont like toolbars! its whilte/grey can i change it?

[real cradle]

you mean menubar?

[onyx bison]

yes yes

[real cradle]

probably. see its options

or else log-out and in if on a dark theme

[real cradle]

n check here first

[onyx bison]

it didnt says no sensor found

on positive note

psensor is working!!

[real cradle]

good.

[onyx bison]

this is final final , the scroll bars on any windows are too thin compared to windows 10

also, after solved what should i do with this thread?

[real cradle]

there is an adjustment for desired scrollbar thickness thankfully in Cinnamon. just google it. i know it's in settings somewhere. probably desktop appearance

then right-click this thread title on left, edit tags to 'solved'

[onyx bison]

(solved) Why am I unable to install no matter what I tried??? Just why???

[onyx bison]

thank you for your time and service

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