• Dicska@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 hours ago

    That was the reason I decided to install Mint Cinnamon.

    It’s been impossible to install for a week now. And I’m not even 100% IT illiterate. After ~3 days of struggling, I decided to do the walk of shame and post on the Mint forum, admitting my failure. It’s been unsolved for about a week now. >100 fails and errors, crashes, freezes.

    I can’t even imagine where I would (not) be had I chosen Kali or Arch.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Yes, I have done a few things already, including memtest. I’ll copy from the forum:

        The things I have tried:

        • Updating my BIOS.
        • The ISO I downloaded has been md5 checked, all fine. I have also tried 2 other ISO files from 2 other mirrors - same.
        • Three (3) USB drives to install Mint, ranging from 8 GB to 24GB.
        • Installing with or without multimedia codecs.
        • Turning on secure boot before install (I was desperate, found a forum post with a similar error message, later I found out that it was for a different reason).
        • Turning off secure boot before install (I found a different forum post where the exact opposite was recommended - later I found out that it was for a different reason).
        • Installing in compatibility mode.
        • Offering a sacrifice to Xebeth’Qlu, tormentor of souls.
        • Running gparted before install, deleting the previously half-installed partition, formatting it myself to ext4, then running the installer.
        • Splitting the aforementioned partition into a 16GB swap partition (I have 16GB RAM) and leaving the rest of it as ext4 (mounted at “/”).
        • Running chkdsk -f on the SSD containing the MBR+Win10, then rebooting the PC twice, according to one of the error messages in my post below (then trying to install again).