[SOLVED] Dual booting Peppermint OS 7 with Windows 10

Indoor_pirates · 08-04-2016, 11:09 PM

Hi there,

I would like to dual boot Windows 10 with peppermint OS 7 when it boots up from the DVD i press enter on try peppermint from the disc it comes up with the loading screen for a while then an error message appears something like this:

[1.625536] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents

After this the screen just goes blank

Can someone tell me how can i get around this and install peppermint 7?

DavidMcCann · 08-05-2016, 12:00 PM

Welcome to LQ! It's a pity you've had to come with a problem, but that's what we're here for.

A quick look on the web shows that lots of people have your problem. You can get a driver for your radeon from here
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
This site might also help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

It's difficult to be more helpful without knowing exactly which video device you have.

Indoor_pirates · 08-05-2016, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

Welcome to LQ! It's a pity you've had to come with a problem, but that's what we're here for.

A quick look on the web shows that lots of people have your problem. You can get a driver for your radeon from here
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
This site might also help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

It's difficult to be more helpful without knowing exactly which video device you have.

Hello thanks for replying

I have an AMD Radeon R7 370 Series display adapter

Indoor_pirates · 08-06-2016, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

Welcome to LQ! It's a pity you've had to come with a problem, but that's what we're here for.

A quick look on the web shows that lots of people have your problem. You can get a driver for your radeon from here
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
This site might also help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

It's difficult to be more helpful without knowing exactly which video device you have.

Sussed it! I had to enable AMD AHCI BIOS ROM in the BIOS for Linux to install although i had to manually install the bootloader because it failed

I installed it alongside Windows 10 on a separate hard drive so i have the choice between either operating system

DavidMcCann · 08-06-2016, 10:38 AM

Congratulations! That was a typical example of a useless error message, although not quite in the class of "Oh dear, something bad has happened."