Joplin Skye

Sorry I was rude, I would like to apologize to Cavi. Also thanks Alynur. I figured it out the next day, here’s how you resolve this issue. There may be more elegant solutions, but this works. This is how to fix your BIOS in a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 so you can dual-boot Peppermint Linux with Windows. This was done on Windows 11, but it would surely work on Windows 10. The problem was that the BIOS wouldn’t let me turn off SecureBoot. The solution to that was to update the BIOS, because the BIOS on my PC...

I've used Peppermint for 10 years and neglected to mention I have installed it on Lenovos as well. Your URLs were unhelpful. Who responds to a question for help with a response that starts with "We are unable to help you"? Who is "we"? You speak for everyone here? I 100% guarantee I will find a solution and I'll post it here. I just thought I would see if there are any technically knowledgeable people here. So far, no. Anyone else? PS thank you to anyone helpful moving forward.

Hello, I've created several Peppermint OS's on 32 GB thumb drives using Balena Etcher over the years and set GRUB to reside/boot from the thumb drives so I can move the Peppermint Thumb OSs between different HP laptops that have Windows 10 on them and everything has always worked fine. To get these Peppermint thumb drives to work on the HP laptops, I usually just go into the HP PCs BIOS and turn off Secureboot and UEFI and set to Legacy Boot and that's it. But I picked up a Lenovo IdeaPad 114ALC7...