Manjaro live ISO doesn't boot on BIOS laptop

[nikgnomic]

we can all edit kernel parameters on the live image, but not until Plymouth loads

I usually edit kernel parameters in GRUB to disable Plymouth, but OP cannot boot to GRUB

I once had a Gigabye board of the same vintage. originally released as BIOS/MBR but later transmogrified to UEFI via an (experimental) BIOS upgrade. The implementation was always flaky.

I am still using an Asus motherboard of similar age. AFAIK only Gigabyte motherboards had a hybrid UEFI that needed to be turned off in BIOS to work with a Linux
(they also needed r8168 NIC driver instead of r8169)

If you created the Ventoy USB in UEFI mode, it won’t boot on an BIOS/MBR system

inxi data shows all drives using MBR scheme, including /dev/sdc SanDisk Cruzer Blade 14.32 GiB   USB rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s   scheme: MBR

If you do have (or can find, I’m looking) an .ISO with linux66 try that, or failing that, linux61.

Release announcements section has minimal ISOs with LTS kernels

he doesn’t told us if the newest Mint ISO is working actually or not

inxi data shows Mint is installed

I think there is some miscommunication here.

his informations are not really precise

Comments from other users could be smarter and relevant to OP system

@DenyAllow

I cant use Ventoy because it doesnt boot neither.

Is the Ventoy boot menu failing to load or the subsequent Manjaro GRUB menu failing?
If the Ventoy menu is working it has a number of tools to check images in /ISO folder and USB drive

Manjaro repositories has mintstick from Linux Mint that should work for creating Live ISO
Opensuse imagewriter should also work to create a bootable ISO-9660 virtual disk image
But Ventoy and dd should also work so probably not due to USB creation software

I suggest download Manjaro Xfce ISOs with LTS kernels and post data to show results of sha256 and sha1 checks

https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux66.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux66.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux66.iso.sha256

https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux61.iso
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux61.iso.sha1
https://download.manjaro.org/xfce/24.1.0/manjaro-xfce-24.1.0-minimal-241001-linux61.iso.sha256

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