Re installed and as I thought there was no choice of where it was installed .
The Grub screen offered:
“ Start Linux Mint” ( this was highlighted)
“Start Linux Mint in compatibility mode “
“OEM install - for manufacturers”
“Hardware detection “
“ Boot from local drive “
“ Memory test”
By the time I had read through it had automatically defaulted to the highlighted “ Start Linux Mint”
Think the next screen offered 2 options namely
“Erase disk and install Linux Mint “ which was the default choice or
“Something else,you can resize partitions yourself or choose multiple partitions .”
Chose “Erase disk “ as this had been the choice on the first run
Off it went and completed the installation without it seemed ran with no apparent problem .
Then said take out USB and hit enter to reboot
Did so and again ended up back at the HP screen I referred to above in my original post …
Couldn’t find any way of changing secure boot . Boot menu I got had about 10 items on it none of them referred to secure boot .
See my reply to Paul re choice of where Mint was installed
Re Bios it appears to be Legacy and nowhere in the options did it have any reference to turning on or off secure
Is that suggestion based on your experience of solving similar. It seems fairly drastic to someone like me who has basic level expertise.
Why would a format offer a probably better outcome than the erase and then install Mint 22 option I elected to take.
I’m not questioning your expertise just trying to learn and get clear in my own mind the probable advantages.
Yes given the problem here I would be happy to try LMDE version . I have put latest version of Ubuntu on a lap top to try and learn whatever I can about Linux while having something to actually do work on .For that reason if LDME is Debian based it should help broaden my knowledge
As with all versions of linux mint
Go to the website, select download, choose lmde, select a location close to you to get it from
Download the iso
Create a boot usb with this version
Try to boot to the usb and then try install
Lmde uses cinnamon and the other version from the desktop, so you will not see much difference but the install may take slightly longer as does the updates to get it to date.
Also the version numbers are not the same 6 for lmde against 22 for mint normal, historical reasons for that
Now i only use lmde with 2 exceptions, i have clients with very old underpowered under memory so use xfce on there machines as its lighter weight, menus look different but basically same product.
The only time I seen this message, it had to do with secure boot.
It been a long time ago, but I believe I had to turn off secure boot in BIOS. or
The OS was loaded with IEF partition and secure boot was not turn on.
Did it say whether it wrote grub onto the disk?
As it is legacy boot, it should write grub to the MBR. It should ask if that is what you want? Did you get to say yes?
I keep asking because I suspect it is not booting because there is no grub bootloader on the disk.
“ Boot Device not found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk
Hard Disk - (3F0)
That could mean
it cant find a bootable disk… either because grub or boot flag are missing
it cant find the OS on the disk … probably looking at wrong partition
Like all error messages it is vague and ambiguous. All developers should learn English and logic.
So the installer did not even mention installing grub.
Is that normal for Mint? … Can someone who uses Mint tell me please?
I cant tell whether @davg 's install has installed grub, and if it did I dont know where it put grub?
So we cant tell whether @davg 's install has a bootloader or not.
Mate does not ask it just does it
Lmde asks where and confirms it
But generally you dont need to see the grub part
One thought
When you boot to the usb
Go into the menu, accessories, the run disks from that,
Check to see if you can see your hard disk and if it says its ok ?
It is not a property of the DE. It depends on the the installer script.
Refracta always asks. Calamares might not if you do the wipe and overwrite everything option? Debian installer always asks.
There is also the question of where did it put grub. @davg’s machine is legacy boot…it needs grub in the MBR if it is msdos partitioned, or in a BIOS-grub partition if it is GPT partitioned.
I think we need to get @davg to use a gparted usb drive and just look and show us what is on his disk. We need to know about the partition table type and the boot flag
