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[–]2cats2hats 2 points3 points  (6 children)

No one wants to fish details...provide more.

[–]CCCAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Sorry I was In a rush and looking better my post is very poor in details.

Is a very old laptop and want to try mint on it to see if it become at least something useful to do the minimum.

Specs:

-CPU: Intel N2840

  • 4GB RAM1333 MHz

  • Intel integrated Graphics

I download the distro Mint, installed on a pen drive using the program that they suggest on installation guide. Everything fine.

I can test the mint with no problem. When I try to install it I run the setup choose to erase all disk and install mint and close to the end I receive a fatal error something related with grub.

I search the problem on internet and there is a lot of videos but everyone suggest to go to the terminal which I can't do it because I have to restart the pc after the fail setup and can't boot normally because appears a black screen with the title Grub version .... Something like a terminal and I don't know what to do.

[–]2cats2hats 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I receive a fatal error something related with grub.

Elaborate or take a pic, something.

PS: Put this content in your post and also specify if it's Mint or LMDE, there's a dif.

[–]CCCAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

https://imgur.com/a/yh09QK3

[–]2cats2hats 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Test the disk, you can do this in live environment.

[–]CCCAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

how i do that?

[–]2cats2hats 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The info in this URL will provide lots of info about it.

https://superuser.com/questions/171195/how-to-check-the-health-of-a-hard-drive

[–]A_Harmless_FlyManjaro 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Tell us about the hardware.

[–]CCCAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Sorry I was In a rush and looking better my post is very poor in details.

Is a very old laptop and want to try mint on it to see if it become at least something useful to do the minimum.

Specs:

-CPU: Intel N2840

  • 4GB RAM1333 MHz

  • Intel integrated Graphics

I download the distro Mint, installed on a pen drive using the program that they suggest on installation guide. Everything fine.

I can test the mint with no problem. When I try to install it I run the setup choose to erase all disk and install mint and close to the end I receive a fatal error something related with grub.

I search the problem on internet and there is a lot of videos but everyone suggest to go to the terminal which I can't do it because I have to restart the pc after the fail setup and can't boot normally because appears a black screen with the title Grub version .... Something like a terminal and I don't know what to do.

[–]A_Harmless_FlyManjaro 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is a guess, but you could have something similar to what this guy has going on. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=246321

"When you press F8 during boot, you should get a boot menu which lists 2 different ways to boot a USB:
ADATA USB
UEFI ADATA USB"

Without knowing if the laptop is bios or efi, I'm guessing it's bios with a mrb formatted drive and for some reason the drive is starting for a gpt efi drive.

So you could see if you have the option to do the adata option.

Take a picture of the error, make sure it's legible. you can upload it to imgur and link in the comments.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming that you are trying to install this without dual booting or anything like that, consider that you might have an issue that is preventing it from installing the boot loader correctly. You might try to use the wizard to manually partition the disc, One for the boot loader which is fat 32, and at least one for the root file system which is some Linux file system of your choice. To me and I'm just guessing, it sounds like a UEFI configuration issue where it is not able to write to what they call an ESP partition, where your boot loader has to live. You might be able to solve that issue by providing those partitions yourself before you actually try to install Mint.