#Installation help

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signal quarry
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Hey, i have a windows drive and a drive for linux. Today was trying to install mint on the second drive, but had many fails which got me nowhere. So issues are as it goes:

  1. Live boot doesnt work (hangs up on the mint logo after around 30s) and only boots on compatiblity mode.
  2. After installing in compatibility mode, i saw no option to select mint as boot. Just recently found out its in boot priorities cause grub went to windows drive efi. When i try boot there, its stuck on "Press ctrl + c to cancel checks" which doesnt work.

So, anyone wanna take the journey to help?

I have 7600x, 9060 xt 16gb, on MSI B850m mortar wifi board. Mint is latest aka zara 22.2

static maple
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@signal quarry the reason you found your way into compatibility mode, -- is cuz your graphics card stinks

signal quarry
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Too new?

static maple
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so if you have time right now, can try some shit

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what's the exact model of gpu?

signal quarry
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Swift oc 2 fan

static maple
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never heard of it

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boot the live linux USB stick

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and make sure secure boot is off in the UEFI BIOS

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and make sure legacy boot/CSM is off. should be set to pure UEFI boot mode

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I'll. wait.

signal quarry
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Didnt see any csm options, so guess they not on

static maple
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is the mobo also damn new?

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within a year?

signal quarry
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I built the pc yesterday

static maple
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yep so it's probably only UEFI

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something that new I've heard doesnt even give the option to boot legacy

flat geode
signal quarry
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I told

static maple
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boot the live usb

flat geode
static maple
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in compat mode if u must to reach the live desktop

flat geode
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my bad, I see it now

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yeah 9060xt is not supported under Mint 22

static maple
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then u can use the terminal to send us your specs without omitting anything

flat geode
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it's too new. there is a way to manually tweak it (risking stability)

static maple
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kek

signal quarry
static maple
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u can boot live, install, boot the install in special safemode, then install the latest kernel

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called the "mainline" kernel which is produced by the God of Linux, at kernel.org

signal quarry
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This stuff is crazy, having come from a steam deck. Laptop had broke so i ran on deck for 3 months in its own arch kde

static maple
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or use something else.

signal quarry
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K im in compat mode desktop

flat geode
static maple
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do inxi -Fxz and maximize terminal and show result top to bottom in a photo plz

signal quarry
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Raphael i remember is the igpu

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static maple
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network info...

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interfaces up or down according to the text?

signal quarry
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System
Machine
Cpu
Graphics
Audio
Network
Bluetooth
Drives
...

static maple
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... shows me titles. thanks. that is so helpful

signal quarry
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Partition
Swap
Sensors
Info

static maple
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are u net interfaces up or what?

signal quarry
static maple
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SHOW THE PIC!!!!!!

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i dont have time for half-assed responses

signal quarry
static maple
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inxi -Fxz TOP TO BOTTOM!!

signal quarry
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OMG TELL IT FIRST, NOT SOME ONLY TOP THING

static maple
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ur net doesnt even work

signal quarry
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Cause i dont have wired internet and using usb tethering while no wifi driver

static maple
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either go mainline kernel or use endeavour kde or possibly fedora if it has a very latest kernel

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ur enp123s0 is down

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the ethernet

signal quarry
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I dont have phone plugged in rn for internet

static maple
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not the point

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look at the result

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ur ethernet card is out to lunch

signal quarry
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So no support also?

static maple
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i cant tell cuz u zoomed in

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if u had showed the f'n thing like i asked, it'd be easier

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but probably u need the latest thing like mainline or what jakjasie said

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gl

signal quarry