After Installing Zorin, Laptop refuses to boot

Installing Zorin OS
#15

Oops, we got one more victim? :scream:
Welcome to the club:

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#16

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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#17

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 :frowning: )

My drive is just a regular SSD (single drive)

#18

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.)

#19

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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#20

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?

#21

No, that is usually harmless.

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#22

Bad news... Even with the new USB I am still running into the same boot issues.

BIOS troubleshooting?

#23

In that case, you should change your BIOS settings from SATA to RAID.

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#24

I agree to try this given:

#25

Unfortunately in my BIOS I am unable to find any settings regarding setting the SSD to SATA or RAID. It is the bios from lenovo so the options it provides aren't all that extensive

#26

Is this it?

#27

yes that is the one!

#28

You are right about the poor BIOS option.
I did not see anything regarding RAID/SATA.

#29

IT WORKS!

I have no clue what did it but after looping a few times it worked! I reset everything in the bios and disabled secureboot etc. and now it is starting properly!

I have a suspicion that etcher definitely had something to do with it not working because it showed the zorin logo once I used the fresh USB. Remind me to never use that again lol

Thank you guys for taking the time to help me out!

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#30

Glad to hear that it is working now.
Please select the posting which solve your problem and mark thread as solved :ballot_box_with_check: This will help the future visitors to the forum.

And if you have a time you could add your posting to that Etcher Causalities thread :wink:

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#31

Though which one that may be is a mystery.:stuck_out_tongue: It may be this one:

#32

I think it is the best one since the OP stated what he did to solved the issue.

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