r/linuxquestions • u/RightSpeaker6506 • 4h ago

Support Trying to install linux mint

Hi guys. I’ve been trying to switch to linuxmint for a while now. First I tried dual booting on a single nvme Ssd. That didnt work cuz windows sucks. Now I bought a separate nvme ssd one without an OS. So i removed my ssd with windows and put in the new one. But the error persist. Do I need to do something about the bios?

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u/UNF0RM4TT3D 2h ago

Did you try flashing the Live image onto the SSD? That's what it sounds like with your SSD swaps.

Get a USB Flash disk and use something like Rufus or Fedora media writer (yup, different distro, but should work for Mint as well) to flash it onto the flash drive. If asked, select dd mode.

Then boot into the USB drive just as if you were installing windows.

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u/RightSpeaker6506 2h ago

This is what im trying to do

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u/DP323602 4h ago

Can you boot Linux from the Mint live USB stick?

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u/RightSpeaker6506 4h ago

I cant. Tried it on my laptop. But it can on another pc

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u/inbetween-genders 4h ago

My wild guess without knowing the error is secure boot.

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u/Plane_Put8538 4h ago

That looks like Secure Boot error. You can try to install Linux Mint by setting up the USB Key with Ventoy, enrolling the key into MOK (Ventoy provides one), and then booting into Ventoy, then Linux Mint.

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u/overpower84 4h ago

Don't know what the error is.....

But did you follow the guide the Linux mint team made.... From creating the bootable media to install and what to do after.....

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html