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so I’ve had problems getting linux to actually setup properly but the functional preview on the boot USB stick itself works without issue, so can I just run it that way, or is that going to limit functionality in some way?
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so I’ve had problems getting linux to actually setup properly but the functional preview on the boot USB stick itself works without issue, so can I just run it that way, or is that going to limit functionality in some way?
Been trying to install mint on an old laptop and it just gets into a crash/boot loop after installing. The USB preview on the other hand appears to work perfectly.
Well, there’s this which was the first result in a search for me. I would also make sure that you’ve allocated at least 500mb to a uefi boot partition, depending on what you meant by “old”. I have found that sometimes there’s a “secure boot” bootloader and one that just has the distro, but it doesn’t mean the one you expect it to be will work. When you boot up at first I would mash the boot options key and see what shows up, if there’s multiple options try them one by one. I suspect there’s a boot setting in your BIOS that’s not letting it boot properly.