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I got the mint iso on a USB how do I get it to make a session? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by sleepybisexual@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Tried just plugging it in and it was treated like a normal USB

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[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

turn off your computer, plug in the key, press the power button to turn it on, then immediately and repeatedly press your boot menu key, it's probably of the f keys above the numbers on your keyboard, if you have an hp laptop it's going to be f9 otherwise it's often f12 but that can be any other one, try googling it, then you will have a menu appear which lets your select "usb something whatev" select it and press enter, if that doesn work, you'll have to learn all about configuring your bios to run linux

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

From my experience: F2, F8, F9, F10, F12, Delete.

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I always wondered why none of them could agree on which f key does what, especially when they all already agree that ctrl-alt-del restart the computer

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ctrl-alt-del was part of the IBM PC BIOS, which everyone cloned. There was no boot menu or configuration interface back then.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

My asrock mobo takes an F9 for bios and F11 for boot menu

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

My problem is that secure boot blocks it. Ventoy plugson says "secure boot support enable"

[-] Sentau@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Go to the BIOS/UEFI settings and disable secure boot

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

My Asus laptop is hold ESC. Need to start pressing it before or very shortly after the power button is pressed or the window is missed.

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Its not booting because of secure boot. How do I let it work in secure boot. I am using ventoy

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

alright that's good, that means it's seeing the key as bootable, you need to enter the bios config, same procedure, but it's another f key, then you will find an option that's called secure boot and you can change it from "enabled" to "disabled", on some bios, you first need to erased the stored secure boot key first

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry but I don't get what you mean. If I disable secure boot does my device get reset?

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

it shouldn't reset your device, secure boot is only there to prevent someone from doing exactly what you're trying to do, booting another os on the computer, that said, if you're going to mess around with a linux installer without full knowledge of what you are doing you should absolutely back up your entire drive first, the easiest method being phisically removing the hard drive and putting another one in

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

How do I disable secure boot? Or at elast get my USB to run

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

in the bios config menu, you can access it when you start up your computer and spam the appropriate keyboard key, you can find out which key it is by the brand of the computer, or the brand of the motherboard if you assembled the pc yourself, then inside the bios config menu you will find the secure boot option.

for example, on my computer, I need to turn it off completely, then press the power button and quickly press the f2 key repeatidely, then instead of launching my operating system, it launches the bios config menu, and in that menu, under the "boot" section, I find a line called "secure boot" which I can enable and disable, once i've done so, I press f10 to save the configs I made, and boot my system where I want

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

OK, sorry but what does acer use? Also do I boot in normal mode or grub 2 because somehow I got in via ventoy

[-] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

f12 iirc, and it's normal mode

[-] shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You dont need to disable secure boot, you just need to enroll the ventoy keys: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html

[-] doomkernel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

You have to change the boot order in the BIOS, and make it load first

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

How do I change order?

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You need to use something like Rufus to turn the ISO into bootable media on your USB. (This will overwrite the entire USB drive.)

Then you need to restart your computer, hit whichever button it tells you to hit to select your boot media, then choose the USB.

[-] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 2 points 1 year ago

turn the pc off, plug the USB in, turn the pc on.

if that doesn't work, look up how to enter your specific laptop's BIOS settings. There, you should find the boot order menu to switch to booting from that usb.

[-] Sentau@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Also maybe try to search for a video on how to create and boot using a live session. People here are giving wonderful advice on how to do it but seeing it done visually will be the easiest way to understand it

[-] krnl386@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

this might help with secureboot. By the way, Googling your problem concisely (e.g. ventoy secureboot acer laptop) can help find solutions, or at least give you ideas to try before asking here.

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