Just configured a Nova 15 for use with Mint last week. Did have some issues but weren’t too hard to solve.
On post hit F7 to bring up the boot menu. This will allow you to boot from USB. I had to choose to the compatibility mode (more on this later).
I went for Mint Cinnamon and the install...
If this is the same problem I once had (and it looks like it) then the solution is to add this a boot parameter:
libata.atapi_passthru16=0
Example thread:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5819208
From what I could gather at the time there is a bug in either the...
