![]() However, when I run Gparted, the Linux installer creates a EPS or a “efi” partition between the Grub partition and the Home partition. My Dell has the original BIOS which is MBR based (there is no mention of GPT or UEFI). I can “see” the partitions when I reboot into LIVE. ![]() The partitions are getting created and the LInux files are copied. When I went to install onto the HD, it seemed to work, but would never boot. The USB drive boots into “LIVE” just fine. I was able to use diskutil on the Mac to recover the drive, reformat it, then put it on a Windows PC and used Rufus to create the Linux Mint Cinnamon bootable USB drive. Etcher in the Mac ended up clobbering the USB driver. I didn’t try the “admin” rights process he ended up using. I had the same problem as bassmanzam in his thread here. I created a bootable USB thumbdrive with a combo of a Mac with Etcher, and eventually a Windows machine and Rufus. UEFI BIOS concepts but dont’ have much hands-on experience with the latter other than to “cookbook” adding new devices or HD’s. I’ve been out of the deep PC hardware realm for a number of years. I also manage a process control system at work that use various Windows servers and PC’s as HMI terminals. I’ve installed several different small Linux distro’s over the years on old Windows notebooks and PC’s to get some life out of them. The laptop was in such nice shape I wanted to make it a Linux-only machine. I tried to recover passwords but that failed. This was a “clean” linux install (no Windows remained). I got it with Ubuntu Studio and Android installed but without any passwords. I was given a 2012 vintage Dell Inspiron N7110 (12gb RAM, 650gb HD).
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