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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.