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[CLOSED] installed but wont start

ghostguy6

Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:38:15 am

Hello, first of all let me just say I am new to Linux and this forum.
I just bought a new Samsung laptop preloaded with windows 8. Needless to say I hate windows 8 and tried to boot zorin6 . I disabled secure boot, set the bios to boot the cd\dvd drive first and changed the boot configuration to legacy mode. I rebooted and ran the install from the DVD deleting windows in the process without any issues. Zorin restarted but now I only get a black screen with a flashing "-" on the screen. I tried rerunning the install and it says zorin is already installed. Any idea on how to get zorin to start up correctly?

Thanks

ghostguy6

Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:21:07 am

Thanks for the help everyone. As far as I can tell I've done everything according to the guides. I took it to geeksquad because the guy there said he could do it no problem. He ended up "bricking?" the laptop so I got my money back and found a laptop with windows 7 on it. I think this topic can now be closed.