I have a thinkpad x390 yoga that I am trying to install Zorin 16 onto. Booting from a live USB works just fine, and there are no hangups in the installation procedure so I am unsure what is going wrong. When I try to start the pc in the top left corner it says "reset system" and is forever stuck in a boot loop. I have tried multiple USB's and attempted the install 5 times now. The first three tries were alongside windows, but then I deleted the windows partition believing that was the issue.
I have tried both the regular install and the safe graphics install (as there is no Nvidia card), neither work.
I have formatted the drive, and deleted all that is on the drive multiple times.
I have no clue where to go from here.
-Matt
Hi and welcome to the forum 
Before installing Linux, make sure that the secureboot is disabled in your BIOS.
You could also try Boot Repair to fix your boot loader.
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
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Hi there,
I do have secure boot disabled in my BIOS. I am about to attempt using boot repair, hopefully it works for me
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Ran Boot Repair, but the issue still persists. This is really discouraging as I wanted Zorin to be my daily driver. This is the url for boot repair.
I know the usual course of action is to do a fresh install, but I have tried that so many times now with no avail.
Thank you,
Is there any difference from BalenaEtcher to Rufus (should I use one over the other?)
Also If it helps I did use the .iso successfully on a VM so I know it isn't a bad download.
There is nothing in the PasteBin.
Highly recommend avoiding BalenaEtcher.
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Odd, that was the url that Boot Repair provided
I did use Rufus for both the boot repair and the zorin .iso, I used the suggested settings, is there any settings I should have altered?
No, I wouldn't think so.
Are you bootng in Legacy or EFI?
If EFI, do you have an EFI partition?
I have been using UEFI in my startup. As for an EFI partition, I am unsure (I believe that there is one but can't confirm as I cant reach a filesystem). Would you suggest using legacy?
Hey, it's worth trying. 
You can check by Booting into the LiveUSB Try Zorin and then running Gparted - the partition manager.
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Alright I will be checking now about the EFI partition, then I might try legacy mode.
I did previously use these USBs with etcher, is there any chance that that could have screwed them up?
YES, there is... In fact there is a thread on the forum for sharing experiences (horror stories) on using BalenaEtcher.
I would say the chance is high enough to make it worthwhile to temporarily try using a different USB stick if you have one available.
Later on, you can try doing a series of formats on the USB that had Balena used on it.
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I do have one brand new USB, I will flash that with rufus now. Just to confirm all the default settings on rufus are good right? (ISO vs DD)
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Oops, we got one more victim? 
Welcome to the club:
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Those really should be fine.
If no good, we may have you go over some BIOS settings - for example if you are using eMMC drive, ensure whether you are set to RAID or AHCI.
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Just checked the EFI partition, it is present and looks normal. Here's hoping it's another Etcher casualty (bricked three USBs if that's the case 
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My drive is just a regular SSD (single drive)
eMMC and nVME are both a form of SSD (although in construction, they are more similar to an SD card than they are to a Solid State Drive.)
Ahh my bad, I'll have to check exactly the drive I have
update it is an nVME SSD if that makes any difference
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Saw something different on starting the live usb this time. Message flashed by pretty quick but I think it said "no cache detected." I'm not sure the significance?