• Dicska@lemmy.world
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      12 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).
      • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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        5 hours ago

        Might sound like a dumb Q but have you tried testing any of the live environments or are you jumping straight to the install, and if you have played in the env. for a bit, have you tried installing any other distro? (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc)