Problem running LMC 22 flash drive

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[Charlie]

I have downloaded the Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 ISO, checked it with the sha256sum (from the Linuxmint website), and burned the ISO onto a flash drive.  With the computer off I put the FD in and then turned on the computer.  I had start over and go into the BIOS to put the FD in the first boot position.  Now the FD booted and a menu of questions came up.  I chose the first one – Start LMC 22, but that didn’t work (just got some jargon on a back screen).

So I tried again, this time picking the “Compatabilty mode” and there was a lot more jargon that scrolled by finally just stopping.  I waited for about 5 minutes and nothing happened and no hard drive activity light blinking either.  So now I’m wondering what to do next.  I’ve attached some screenshots of what I see on the FD.  I’d be very glad to get any advice anyone has to offer.  Thanks.

Edit:  The FD looks to be okay but will not run – i.e. no install disk icon or anything showing up on the desktop.

 

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burned the ISO onto a flash drive

How did you ‘burn’ the iso to the flashdrive?
Did you use the mint USB Image Writer, or another method?
What version of mint is being used to ‘burn’ the iso as I recall there were issues with the USB Image writer in certain versions of Linuxmint.

IIRC, I used rufus on a windows device to burn the LM22 iso to the flashdrive as using LM20.3 a while back ran into similar problems on first try. It was documented somewhere on the linuxmint forums..

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Yes, I used the Mint USB Image Writer that’s on the LMC version 20 I’m now using.  This is what I was told works well in another thread.  That’s just 20, not 20.1 etc.

 

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Is your current PC set up using UEFI or MBR?

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It’s UEFI.

Edit:  I did test the flashdrive by copying a file or two to it and making sure they ran.

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Here’s a screenshot of the main SSD drive as shown by Disks.

It appears I may have been wrong about the UEFI, it may be MBR.  Not sure, BIOS screen says UEFI.

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Your long skinny screen shot showing Clam AV and the Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 64-bit is indicating that you haven’t booted from the flash drive. You’ve booted into Mint 20.3 (IIRC).

You say that you waited after turning the computer on and saw nothing happening after a while. Thinking of simplest things first, I can tell you from installing Mint on old – ca 2009 – hardware that booting from a bootable flash drive can be VERY slow. I’d give it a good 10 minutes before saying it’s not going to work. And you should time the 10 minutes with a watch because it always seems that it takes longer than it actually does. I just booted my daily driver running LMC 20.3 from a LMC 22 FD and it seemed that it took forever, even though when I looked at my watch it took about 2.5 minutes. My daily driver is ca 2016.

So my first step is to try again, choosing “Start LMC 22” and just wait and see what happens. Unless you have a faulty iso/flash drive, it should boot to a screen with “install Linux Mint” Icon on it.

If that doesn’t work then read the installation documentation in the Mint website; there’s a section in there about things to try if you can’t boot.

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I remember it taking a long time for LMC Live to boot from the DVDs I used before. but I had expected it to be faster with a flash drive.  I’ll try again and give it at least 10 timed minutes.  I’ve noticed that you are thinking I have LMC 20.3; I don’t, I have LMC 20.  I also didn’t think it necessary to have the Internet connected just to run the Linux live on the flash drive.

All of the screenshots I put in above were mainly intended to show information about the flashdrive with the ISO loaded on it and how it looks on my computer.  After I try again I’ll let you know how it goes.  I’m also thinking to try the menu option to “check the integrity of the medium”.  I didn’t get a real good answer as to the condition of the ISO when I checked it with the sha256sum I got from the Linux site.  All it had was a long group of numbers and letters in a box with an OK button to click.

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Charlie wrote:

All it had was a long group of numbers and letters in a box with an OK button to click.

You should also have downloaded a file containing the correct sha256 “group of letter and numbers” that you manually compare with the calculated one.  If they don’t match, the downloaded iso file has an integrity problem

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I think I did because I downloaded two files from the Linux website, and didn’t know what that second one was for.  Now I know and I better copy all this info. because I know I’ll forget it the next time.

 

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Shouldn’t be any difference between LMC 20 and LMC 20.3 as far as installation goes.

I’ve never used a CDor DVD to boot, so I can’t compare times. I guess I would expect them to be about the same. Also, IIRC you are using a usb 2.0 flash drive (or perhaps usb 2.0 ports, or maybe both) which will likely be noticeably slower than any usb 3.0 devices you might have used. Not much you can do about that, though, if your computer is old. Your computer does have an SSD, so once you get LMC installed, it should be pretty fast.

I’ve always had wifi turned on during an installation even if the computer hasn’t actually been connected to the internet. Usually at some point during the installation a wifi driver will get loaded and then I’ll be informed that networks are available, which is when I’ll enter my wifi password and get connected. From my point of view being connected to the internet allows the installation to go out and look for drivers that are either missing from the FD (the FD won’t always have all the drivers for all the various combinations of hardware), or need updating.

Yes, try the “check the integrity of the medium” option. I did that a few years ago when I couldn’t boot from an FD and it told me something was wrong with the FD; made another bootable FD and all was well.

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It works!  Hallelujah!  It booted up a lot faster this time – well within the 10 minutes.  Now I have to make sure I’ve backed up everything and take some screenshots of the way I’ve got things looking on my 20 now before installing.  There’s much more I could say but I don’t want to bore you, you’ve been through all this before.  Thanks again to both of you for your help.  Hopefully things will go smoothly from here on.

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I’d be interested to know what changed or if you did something differently this time around.

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That’s the weird part, a different set of options came up on the screen and while I was trying to decide what to pick, it just took it upon itself to boot up to the LMC 22 Live.  I may just let it do that every time.

 

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Seems a bit odd. Maybe you have a usb port that’s a bit finicky. But hopefully it will boot at least one more time.

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That front USB port works fine with all my other external drives, I’ts possible it may be that new cheaply built Sandisk Cruzer Glide flashdrive.

 

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