So this is really odd.. I have an HP 405 G8 mini desktop with an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE, 16GB RAM and Radeon graphics. I had Zorin 17.3 installed on it a while back and then unplugged it for probably at least 8 or 9 months. When I plugged it back in, I got an error message stating “no OS found”… Okay, that’s weird, but really didn’t care too much since I wanted to install Zorin 18.
After grabbing my thumb drive I booted up, tested 18 with no issues, then went to install. After the install was complete, I rebooted (I did not get the “remove media and press enter” message) and the os never came up. Just a black screen, then power saving mode. I tried again, no luck. I checked bios settings, all good. I built a new thumb drive with 18.1, same thing. I tried a brand new SSD, same thing.. I then downloaded 17.3 which I already had installed on this computer.. same thing.
What the heck? I then grabbed the latest version of Mint and it installed no problem (although I still did not get the “remove installation media and press enter” message). What could the difference be? Kernel versions? I really want to use Zorin on this thing since I already use it on my laptop and my Wife’s laptop. Mint is fine, but I like consistency.