I really need help to install Linux on my Zenbook.
It will not install.
Can soneone out there help me get started and troubleshoot?
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Hi and welcome.
How did you try to install Mint, what version, what error message do you get?
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I installed Mint on my Zenbook, and when I boot up, nothing happens.
There is some green text lines in the upper left hand corner on the display for a second, and it disappears before going blank.
The ONLY WAY it will boot, is on the flash drive connected, and going into the BIOS screen, and then exiting.
Can you check in the BIOS if Secure Boot is on?
Good morning.
No, secure boot is not on. I shut it off before Installation.
Before I started everything to install Mint, I followed the step by step instructions with prepping the USB drive, downloading Mint XIA and the other program to start the procedure.
Win10 was on the SSD, but my goal was to erase that and put Mint on my Zenbook to use 100% of the time with no dual boot.
@Falcon
From your description, Linux Mint is installed on the Zenbook, but the driver is incompatible with the GPU / display adapter / video card. Which GPU does the Zenbook have installed?
Hi. Thanks for the replies.
It’s an Intel CPU and IGPU in the Zenbook.
Core Ultra 5 Cpu.
Went into the BIOS.
Secure boot is disable.
Boot order is only the SSD, which is named UBUNTU.
Only will start Mint when the USB stick is inserted, and the F2 option is pressed to get into the BIOS, and then you save and exit to restart the computer with the MINT thumb drive inserted.
When the thumb drive is removed nothing happens.
Mint does not start.
@Falcon
I would recommend switching to a virtual terminal with Ctrl + Alt + F1, and then reading syslog with the following:
journalctl -b -0 -o short-iso
That should give a clue of what is not starting correctly.
Not sure how to read that correctly while I am there, but I will give it a try.
Thanks.
Also, can you give me in some way the correct and simple steps on how to install Mint on a Windows Laptop?
I need a step by step process on how to do this the right way, and need your help to do so.
What I need is a beginners way of installing Mint on a Win11 Laptop, and do a SAFE dual boot, so that I can get my feet wet the slow way.
Can you help me out with this?
It would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Thanks!
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I have no experience with dual booting or battling the issues it causes.
My experience running multiple operating systems on a computer is using virtualization, currently QEMU-KVM.
Linux Mint provides an Edge ISO image that has newer components, kernel, etcetera. You may want to give that a try for dual booting.
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Did you get this solved? To do a dual boot ( I usually do this on separate disks, one will be Windows and the other is my Linux) you need to determine how much of the disk is going to be for each OS(Operating System). Then install Windows on that disk space. Once Windows is done messing around start you Mint install on that disk space. The two problems I see so far is the boot order isn’t set to the hard drive instead of the USB stick. You can pipe the out put to a file and one of us could sift through it for you. add a file name to the end of the command Mr. Flinkman posted like this journalctl -b -0 -o short-iso | tee > my file the tee command should allow the file to be written to and out put to the terminal at the same time. The other thing I see wrong is you don’t have the right video divers for your card. This description says it all:
I installed Mint on my Zenbook, and when I boot up, nothing happens.
There is some green text lines in the upper left hand corner on the display for a second, and it disappears before going blank. it’s doing that because you don’t have the right Video drivers.
I run Debian so I couldn’t tell you how to get them for Mint, sorry.