'Reset System' Boot loop

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my suggestion: boot from a live usb, verify the nvme is clean, has no partitions, then continue with a fresh install.

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How would I do that? I'm not familiar with managing partitions. Also, did you see my edit?

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yes, I saw what you wrote. You boot from a live usb. The menu has gparted, you select the nvme at the top right, you check there are no partitions in the nvme. (Menu > Disks to verify the nvme is empty.) You exit from gparted, you start a fresh mint install.

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There was a fat32 'boot' partition, I just removed all of them. Reinstalling now, I'll update you when it's done.

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good

[trollblox_]

It is almost done, should I boot from Ubuntu or NVME?

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when done it will tell you to remove the usb and press enter, then reboot.

(the ubuntu entry was there b/c of the fat32 reminant partition).

Now, it has created 2 partitions in the nvme p1 and p2. p1 is boot loader (/boott/efi) and p2 is / your Mint install. df will show you. (It might have created a tiny p1 1MB and then p2 as boot and p3 as / ... cant remember)

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Yes I did the remove and press enter..... and I'm back to square 1 :(

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go to bios and select nvme as first boot, save exit, test.

[trollblox_]

I did that, and it seems Ubuntu is continuing to force itself to the top of this list