(My apologies if this this the wrong category for this question.)
I have desktop tower computer built with an Elite Core V3 Home Core i7-127000 CPU. Windows 11 has been installed on that PC and I want to install Manjaro Linux in its place.
However, I was unable to find, in the UEFI screens, how to boot that computer from my Manjaro Linux ISO USB drive. After several unsuccessful attempts, the computer now boots straight to Windows 11 without even allowng me to use the UEFI interface.
Can anyone advise me. firstly, how to find the UEFI screens again and, when I do, how to set them so I can boot up from my bootable Manjaro Linux USB drive?
Right now I am using a friendâs Windows 11 computer, so I may not be able to respond quickly to any responses here.
After jumping through many hoops, I have managed to install Windows 11.
Luckily, I could get my code from Micro$oft through an e-mail I read from a tablet I had recently purchased. Without that tablet I would have been stuck.
I could not receive the code on my mobile phone as I lost it about 4 days ago and am awaiting a SIM card to activate my new replacement mobile phone. I have no other working computer in my house other that new computer on which I am about to replace Windows 11 with Manjaro Linux.
Apologies, It seems I ticked a box which said my problem was solved. It has not been solved. If that canât be corrected I might have to make a new post.
Right now, I am trying to work from a screen which is labeled âMSI Click BIOSâ on the top left-hand corner. Could that be the UEFI (previously âBIOSâ) screen?.
(I could try to re-create it with text if anyone thinks that could help me explain it better.)
I have put the bootable Manjaro ISO USB into both the blue-coloured USB slot (on the front left-hand side) and the black-coloured USB slot (on the right).
When I press F12 which seems to be the right button, I get the message:
Blockquote
No USB Device is found
Please plug USB dongle then try again
First you need to disable Secure Boot. Read the âFunction Introductionâ page at the link above which shows you how to search for BIOS settings. Basically you click the search icon in top left of screen and type secure boot. Disable it and then F10 to save + exit which will reboot.
After reboot instead of pressing DEL to enter that BIOS screen press F11 for boot menu and choose the device you want to boot from.
Per default Win11 wants to control you PC boot with Secure Boot but Manjaro donât support Secure Boot because we prefer freedom instead chains.
If you still want to stick to Win11, its possible that you may need to reinstall Win11, i personally prefer Win10 (even when i use Linux to 99,5% of my time) that donât require TPM/Secure Boot, but with Rufus (media creation tool for your iso) you can install win11 without any shady Hardware Dongle.
Thank you Kobold, but I donât know where you got the impression that I wanted to run Windows 11 or even Windows 10⌠I am trying to find out how to remove Windows 11 from my computer and Install Manjaro Linux in its place, most likely, from a bootable ISO on a USB stickâŚ
(Right now there are quite a few other posts and links to resources that I havenât yet followed properly, so I will do that now.)
Just now, on the UEFI screen, I tried to change the boot order so that it would fiirst boot off what looked to be 2 USB drives before the internal disk.
As a consequence, the computer now wonât boot at all. When I turn it on, the screen remains blank.
I am now left with no choice but to take the computer back to where I bought it from and ask the technician::
Can he just make it boot up at all, whether to the UEFI screen or to Windows 11? and
If he can find a way to make it boot up, could he make changes on the UEFI screen so that I can boot it up from my Manjaro Linux ISO USB stick in one of the 2 USB ports at the front?
Perhaps, in hindsight, I should have paid extra to have him remove Windows 11 from that computer.
Sorry, I didnât actually install Windows 11. I just enabled the Windows 11 that was already installed after jumping through quite a few hoops.
I enabled Windows 11 so that I could turn of fast boot. It seems that I succeeded in turning of fast boot, but I still could not work out how to make the computer boot off my bootable Manjaro ISO USB stick.
⌠and as I said elsewhere, my latest efforts seem to have caused my computer not to be able to boot up at all, so I am left with no choice but to take it back to the store where I bought it from to ask for help.
W11 comes as default. Yes? No?
It functions normally. Yes? No?
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The info you provided, are fragmented and contradictory.
Perhaps you should terminate this thread, and start a new post with more consistent + relevant info.
If my understanding is correct:
a. You are not seeking dual boot (W11 and Manjaro).
b. You want to install only Manjaro.
c. You want to remove W11.
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Assuming youâre computer novice, I would recommend you to use the following installation guide:
While in W11 environment, download Ventoy app, and use Ventoy to format your USB drive.
Download your preferred Manjaro ISO version, and copy it to the USB drive.
While leaving your USB drive attached to your PC, reboot, and enter BIOS of your PC.
Turn off Secure Boot in your BIOS setting, and select your USB drive as 1st boot drive.
Save the changes and restart.
You should be able to boot from your USB drive now. Ventoy would prompt you to choose which OS (if you have multiple iso on Ventoy drive) to boot.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install Manjaro.
As user Wind77 said already, your infoâs are contradictory.
I wrote a Guide in Steam for people like you who wanted to switch from Windows to Linux⌠even if you not a gamer, it still helps you to find your way to get warm with Linux.
You will have a horrible Linux experience, when you just delete Windows instantly and going all in with LinuxâŚ
Replace your programâs one after another and give yourself time to breath.
My apologies for the confusion that I have caused to some by the way I have tried to explain my circumstances, but I still think the title I gave my post explains fairly well what I was trying to find out:
How to Configure UEFI so that computer with Elite V7 Home Core i7-12700 CPU can boot from my Manjaro Linux ISO USB?
I had expected that I could just boot off my bootable Manjaro Linux ISO file on a USB stick by from my input into the UEFI screen, but I was advised here that I needed to first disable secure boot from within Windows 11. So to do that, I had to go to the trouble of enabling Windows - by entering my name, e-mail address, phone number, ⌠whilst trying to avoid all sorts of traps set by Microsoft - when I had expected that I would not have to use Windows 11 at all. Apologies for having mistakenly used the word âinstallâ ather than âensableâ on at least one occasion.
I have been using Linux in pereference to Microsoft since about 2000 I think.
I still think the way that Windows has been installed with fast boot on my computer could probably have also confused quite a few others who were not complete Linux novices.
Anyway as I said, my computer screen now wonât turn on so I see no choice but to take my computer back to the computer dealer. Hopefully he can fix it and remove Windows 11 for me.
You canât enter your UEFI BIOS with âdelâ key?
If you donât get any picture at all, you could also reset your Bios settings with a jumper on your Mainboard⌠but something is telling me, you probably not this deep into this technical understanding.
Removing Win11 should no big deal⌠you only need to Boot into the Manjaro Bootstick, that you can prepare with a Media Creation Tool like Ventus/Rufus/Etcher⌠but i linked you my guide already and my Linux Steam Guide also said disable secure boot and fast boot inside your BIOS.
When you donât want to use Windows anymore, you donât need any adjustments inside Windows, simple as that.
