Ocka
January 19, 2023, 8:53am
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Gday @MontyCode , Welcome to the community,
Please explain how you made the usb drive,
Could be a bad download or setup.
Are you wanting dual boot, or clean install?
You may also like to read this,
If a hard drive does not have an existing EFI partition, then launching from EFI USB will not work, as there is no EFI start point. An ESP is a FAT32 partition with a flag that tells the EFI BIOS to look inside it for boot information.
You can try reburning your USB stick as not EFI and that should work.
Otherwise, let's cover what to do if your only option is to boot from what you have:
Boot up your USB and choose "Try Zorin" - do not run the installer, yet. Hit ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal…
Also try here,
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=346101