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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • heres what i think happened…

    when you first built the pc, there is a ‘boot order’ it will attempt to boot from different devices from a list, in that order.

    often HDD/SSD will be set to be checked before USB devices.

    when you first boot to mint, there were no other boot options… the bios went through the list and only found a usb device, and booted from it.

    when you told mint to install to your SSD, it attempted to create a boot partition on that SSD and then install mint, but something went wrong.

    At this point your computer now has 2 bootable devices… an SSD with a failed mint install, and a USB live drive. the next time it boots its checking its list, seeing the SSD and choosing it first. effectively ignoring any USB device.

    you need to hit f8 or somethin to trigger the bios boot menu so you can select the linux mint USB device