hi all. was wondering if I could get some help, linux mint will boot in compatibility mode but not in normal mode https://imgur.com/aHxpukE this is what i get when i try. any help would be lovely. <3
Is this a new install?
i downloaded it late last year i think. been awhile.
I'd try reinstalling. It looks like at some point your GPU drivers and possibly some other stuff have gotten fouled. I'm no expert but those errors seem to be talking about "Nouveau" which are GPU drivers for NVIDIA cards.
ah thats weird since I haven't installed it. trying to boot to install it :D
The kernel is tainted. I suggest a backup of important data and a full reinstall.
@K4KFH nouveau is the nvidia open source driver.
Id also suggest not using Mint, there lack security efforts are.. questionable.
Are they?
They've had multiple breaches, there master images were tampered with, they've had there forums breached and data stolen.
Well yeah, but that was a wordpress vulnerability that was exploited, which I am not sure they could have done anything about it. The master images themselves were not tampered with. The link on the site was changed to point at a hacked ISO image on a server of the hackers. The only other breach was the forum hack made by the same people during the same incident.
They have been very straightforward about it, shut off everything for a long time till they manage to bring everything up securely and all data taken from the forums were encrypted...
It was not a very different incident than the forum hack tek syndicate had some time ago...
Unless I am missing any new incidents.
A little more serious than what happened here, in mints case they lost password hashes, compromised systems that downloaded ISOs during that time period, where affected by breaches on multiple platforms, not just wordpress.
The distro its self I have one issue with, if your use the front end package manager it doesn't update important low level updates. thankfully I think this is changing in the next release so hopefully they never make that mistake again, but there general stance on security hasn't been the highest priority. Maybe this will change with the recent issues they've had.
They had Sucuri to take over the security of their website (the website security was indeed lacking) and their servers since the incident. And the compromised ISO was coming from the changed link not their system.
You can change that very easily from the manager preferences. They just went with stability in the default preferences...
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My issue with it over the past few years isnt that its not easy to change, but that Mint is a popular choice for new Linux users and they dont know that it needs to be changed, or that theres even an issue. Its fine for you or me, we know what needs updating. The average user, shouldn't need to know if they dont want to. From the use case point of view it was a bad choice as it put new users computers in unnecessary risk, low risk maybe, but unneeded.
I've read thats changing in Mint 18, so thats a great step.
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Whoops, sorry. Brainfart. I edited the original post.
re download a fresh Mint ISO file and write it to a freshly formatted FAT32 pen.
make sure you BIOS is set to Legacy and not just UEFI mode. Also if your installing turn off all the unnecessary hard discs in the BIOS or manually to stop the boot loader going on the wrong disc (that’s if you have any extra discs)
i got it ^_^ downloaded a new version and now it all good. thanks everyone for all the help
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