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hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 12:59 PM

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I'm guessing you ran the install?

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 1:10 PM

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Yes but grub can’t find the partition

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And Linux installs successfully but i cant boot it from grub ir any other way so i might just start over fresh and try again

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 1:23 PM

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So, what do you actually get when you boot?

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 1:32 PM

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I usally load into GNU Grub, or i choose to load into linux live version

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Via the usb

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 2:16 PM

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Could you photo your boot process?

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 2:25 PM

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Im at school right now but later yea

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 2:26 PM

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ok

warped owl Oct 15, 2025, 2:33 PM

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trim tapir Im at school right now but later yea

when you take photgraphs, use landscape orientation and dont cut off stuff.

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stretch terminal wider so full lines are shown. use camera in wide landscape

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make sure win fast startup is off before even attempting to dualboot install

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see #1193345280733622272 message

tidal zealot Oct 15, 2025, 4:23 PM

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ok so i just went thru the same thing, i think.
i have an nvidia card but after selecting linux from the grub it would hang but respond to a ctrl-alt-del
what discovered was that it wasnt the disk identifiers as update-grub didnt fix it

TLDR
i enabled the onboard gpu connected one monitor to that, left my gaming monitor on the nvidia card, select ongoard as primary display

now i can boot into linux like normal AND the nvidia card works fine.

this allows for update but i suspect that during boot, the linux kernal is bouncing req off and the nvidia driver chokes.

so try switching to the onboard gpu connect your monitor to it set it as primary then try to boot normally
if it works then its a gpu issue

warped owl Oct 15, 2025, 4:26 PM

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you can boot with nomodeset parameter also, if the gpu is causing the issue

tidal zealot Oct 15, 2025, 4:28 PM

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and so how to add that parameter

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 6:04 PM

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In the grub menu, select mint and press e, then type nomodeset next to quiet splash

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If it gives you a black screen with nvidia, then disable secure boot in bios

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 8:54 PM

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@hollow tendon i only get the option to boot into gnu grub an not the actual GRUB menu with actual linux and windows boot options.

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hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 8:59 PM

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trim tapir

That's grub menu of your usb stick

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 8:59 PM

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hollow tendon That's grub menu of your usb stick

Oh shi-

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Oh and when i do use GNU Grub it boots into live test linux mint

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 9:01 PM

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Take out your usb stick, see where it boots

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 9:04 PM

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It booted to windows

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 9:07 PM

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Are you sure you even instaled mint?

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 9:08 PM

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It said install successful

hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 9:09 PM

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trim tapir Oh shi-

ok, then show me the boot menu without usb stick plugged in

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 9:10 PM

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hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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no, I meant in bios setup

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 9:14 PM

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hollow tendon Oct 15, 2025, 9:20 PM

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ok, go back to mint usb, open the terminal there and screenshot

lsblk -f

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 10:13 PM

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trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 10:45 PM

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@hollow tendon

trim tapir Oct 15, 2025, 11:18 PM

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Also heres the boot repair thing if you need it: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/BwnFXjbcCF/

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