Is it external? Then try disconnecting it.
Looks like this could be a BIOS problem. Does it actually attempt to boot from the Mint USB?
If not, then you will need to enter the BIOS setup screen and change the boot device order. Put “USB HDD” at the top, “internal HDD” and “CD drive” in the middle, and anything else at the bottom.
This might get rid of the “boot from URL” you’re seeing, by demoting “PXE network boot” from the boot order.
/dev/sr0 is the CD drive. Does your computer have one?
Do they have buttons you can use to turn them off?
That is true. And it is probable that most of the mineral content would come from bones.
But when you say that there are bones burned to ash during the manufacturing process, that just sounds like a scare tactic!
Based on my knowledge, there is no process for manufacturing pet food or human food that involves burning the components to ash.
No! Clearly Harpo was one of the founding members of the Communist party!
ash is the amount of bones burned into ash during the manufacturing process
No, that is not correct. Ash content is a way to determine mineral content. It is analyzed by burning the food to ash.
Have you set up your /etc/crypttab
Yes, yes I have!
(e. g. do you need hibernation?)
No, I do not.
That’s the first thing I tried! No effect at all. Even when I enter a wrong password, nothing happens. It doesn’t echo, but I think it wouldn’t echo anyways.
Also, there’s not enough text that comes after decrypting the root for anything to get lost in the scrollback buffer.
Fresh new installation, but I can mount the home partition manually and continue booting.
Can’t run any commands now. I tried to restore a backup from a different utility, ended up deleting all the config files. System went down, had to reinstall.
I tried deleting the old backups, it still takes about a minute to complete the snapshot. I think it only limits weekly backups, and manual backups are unlimited. Weekly backups are completely fine, and manual is where the problem lies.
It happened on X11 and Wayland.
I’d just like to interject for a moment…
If your ethernet works, then you can connect and then install NetworkManager using apt.
If it doesn’t work, try booting into the Live ISO, downloading the package onto the hard drive without installing, then rebooting into the normal environment and installing from the file.
Another recommendation: Peppermint Linux, a lightweight Debian-based distro with XFCE as the desktop. Designed for older computers, and has a 32-bit version. Not to be confused with Linux Mint.
Safety info: Do not use Damn Small Linux, it is unmaintained and will not receive any security fixes.
About Debian, OpenSUSE not taken into consideration: Linux under-the-hood (not the desktop components) are fast even on old hardware. If you use a light DE/WM like XFCE or IceWM it will run quite smoothly. I have installed Debian on an old computer (2GB RAM, single core Celeron CPU, spinning HDD) and I have not noticed any significant slowdowns.
About Windows 7: I know it’s absolutely unusable, I just don’t want to see it destroyed. Like a rusted-out undriveable classic car that I don’t want to see in a junkyard. Maybe copy the HDD image or something?
Maybe the Windows partition is getting automounted. If so, there’s nothing to fear. And if you installed Ventoy yourself, there’s even less to fear.
However, if you suspect something untoward is going on, run a virus scan. Use Defender on Windows, and ClamAV on Linux.
ClamAV is unintuitive, so I wrote a helper script called Mussel. Read it, copy-paste it, put it in your PATH.
#!/bin/bash
getpath1() {
echo $PATH'/*' | sed 's/:/\/\* /g'
# print the path, with a /* on the end;
# then substitute every : with a /*[space]
}
getpath2() {
echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'
# print the path only;
# then substitute every : with a [space]
}
scanselect() {
echo "How do you want to scan?
Select from 'path-scan', 'home-scan', 'full-scan', 'total-scan', or 'custom-scan'"
}
path-scan() {
sudo clamscan --bell -r --move=/.quarantine `getpath2`
}
home-scan() {
sudo clamscan --bell -r --move=/.quarantine /home/`whoami`
}
full-scan() {
sudo clamscan --bell -r --move=/.quarantine --exclude-dir='/dev' --exclude-dir='/sys' --exclude-dir='/proc' --exclude-dir='/.quarantine' --exclude-dir='/.snapshots' /
}
total-scan() {
sudo clamscan --bell -r --move=/.quarantine /
}
custom-scan() {
TARGET='unknown'
printf "Select target files or directories to scan: "
read TARGET
if [ -d $TARGET ]; then
sudo clamscan --bell -r --move=/.quarantine $TARGET
else
sudo clamscan --bell --move=/.quarantine $TARGET
fi
}
qview() {
echo 'These are the files in quarantine:'
#sudo ls -hal /.quarantine
#echo `sudo ls /.quarantine | wc -w`" entries in quarantine."
sudo tree /.quarantine
}
qempty() {
ANSWER='unknown'
qview
echo "Do you want to delete them all? (y/N)"
read ANSWER
if [ $ANSWER = 'y' ]; then
sudo rm -rf /.quarantine
echo 'All quarantine files deleted.
Returning to mussel interface.'
sudo mkdir /.quarantine
else
echo "Returning to mussel interface."
fi
}
show-help() {
echo "List of commands:
scan: Does not scan anything, just prints a list of commands for scanning.
path-scan: Scans all files in the path. ($PATH)
home-scan: Scans all files in your home directory. (/home/`whoami`)
full-scan: Scans all files on the system (/), except for virtual filesystems and quarantine
total-scan: Scans /all/ files on the system (/), nothing is excluded
custom-scan: Scan a specific file or directory
update: Update the threat database
quarantine-view: List files in quarantine
qview: Same as quarantine-view
quarantine-empty: Delete all files in quarantine
qempty: Same as quarantine-empty
help: Print this list
?: Same as help
exit: Exit Mussel, return to the shell"
}
if ! [ -e /.quarantine ]; then
sudo mkdir /.quarantine
echo "Quarantine directory did not exist, just created it now"
fi
COMMAND="unknown"
echo "This is Mussel, an interactive command-line frontend to ClamAV.
Type 'help' or '?' for a list of commands."
while (true); do
printf '] '
read COMMAND
if [ $COMMAND = 'scan' ] ; then
scanselect
elif [ $COMMAND = 'full-scan' ]; then
full-scan
elif [ $COMMAND = 'path-scan' ]; then
path-scan
elif [ $COMMAND = 'home-scan' ]; then
home-scan
elif [ $COMMAND = 'custom-scan' ]; then
custom-scan
elif [ $COMMAND = 'total-scan' ]; then
total-scan
elif [ $COMMAND = 'quarantine-view' ] || [ $COMMAND = 'qview' ]; then
qview
elif [ $COMMAND = 'quarantine-empty' ] || [ $COMMAND = 'qempty' ]; then
qempty
elif [ $COMMAND = 'update' ]; then
sudo freshclam
elif [ $COMMAND = 'help' ] || [ $COMMAND = '?' ]; then
show-help
elif [ $COMMAND = 'exit' ]; then
break
else
echo 'This command does not exist'
fi
done
The distro itself doesn’t matter that much for performance. Pick whatever you want, and use XFCE or IceWM for the desktop (or even go CLI only).
I recommend Debian or OpenSUSE for an easy install, and Arch, Artix, or Void if you’re more experienced.
PS: Windows 7 is one of the best versions of Windows and it’s not distributed anymore, that’s a piece of history! Don’t overwrite it, even if it does suck.
Which errors are you getting? Because if it’s these ones…
then everything is OK. Those are perfectly normal boot messages.
If it’s the same errors, try the same solutions. If it’s different errors, tell us what they are.