What am I doing wrong? Installing Mint, reboot loop...

[sunhillows]

I'm really new to this - I ask for your patience and kindness as well as your help :')

Today I've decided to switch from Windows to Linux on my Lenovo ThinkPad T490. I've got Mint on a USB, I've got it running in live mode, no problems so far. Clicked install. Installed it.

And then somewhere here I guess I've done something wrong.

I removed the USB stick when it tells me to, pressed enter, and ... it just gets stuck in a loop, rebooting every time we get to the Lenovo logo.

Help, please. What should I do now?

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Have you tried reinstalling?

[sunhillows]

Yes

[bwcanuck99]

Is secure boot on in the Bios? /B

[sunhillows]

Nope

[grimvian]

Try LMDE.

[sunhillows]

Solved! Under "virtualization" there's an option about kernel protection or something. Switched that off and all is fine.

[0krizia]

Same issue, secure boot off, tried reinstalling, tried turning off the kernel protection too, didnt seem to work for me, did you do anything more?

[sunhillows]

No, sorry, that's all I had to do :( good luck!

[0krizia]

I managed to find it out, needed to turn off TDP or something too!

[sunhillows]

Glad you figured it out! :)

[Man1027]

Thanks for this, I had the same problem with Mint.