Mint 21 works! I just got to the desktop environment…and guidance from here?
Edit: I went ahead with the installation. A clean erase and rebuild. The computer didn’t appreciate that. First restart took me to a hanging ROG logo. A second restart took me to GRUB then a black screen
‘nomodeset’ didn’t so anything for me. At the request of another user, I successfully got into system rescues desktop environment
You weren’t kidding, ventoy is more efficient. What’s the expected system rescue behavior? I went through a couple menus and ended up at a terminal window. ‘startx’ gets me to a desktop. Assuming that’s how it should operate, what’s next to get this machine running properly?
So I had a very similar issue with Ubuntu. After a lot of digging through forums, I found the power of ‘nomodeset’, but I was annoyed with the complicated, non-automatic boot sequence. Hence trying a friendlier distro here…if you’ve got a different suggestion, I’d love to hear it. And I hope its not an issue of using a different port, because my displayport-to-hdmi adapter just broke!
I’m assuming there’s no way to bundle a driver into the install?
Fast Boot - this was enabled, I disabled it CSM support - not in BIOS Secure Boot - already disabled NVMe RAID mode - not in BIOS TPM Switch - not in BIOS
Booting is the same, both regular and compatibility mode
I bet the currently living members of the family are considering changing their name back
Ragebait logo, 10/10
Just to clarify, none of the options “work.” But ‘Advanced options for Linux Mint 21’ > ‘recovery mode’ gives me the option to ‘Resume normal boot’. And for whatever reason, that works when a normal boot (without extra steps) doesn’t.