I have an old laptop that I have tried a few distros on, and I have decided that I would like to install Mint on my Ssung laptop. I installed as dual boot with windows 10 and seemed to work fine. Now every time I try to boot to Mint, I get a message that makes no sense to me. I have tried numerous help sites and cannot find what to do, so any help would be appreciated. I am ready to wipe windows and have only mint on my laptop. "Failed to start load/save RF Kill switch status" This just continues to loop, and I cannot get past this. I used testdisk and received the following:-
TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>P EFI System 2048 534527 532480 [EFI System Partition] [SYSTEM]
D MS Data 567296 2615295 2048000
D MS Data 2308131 32446491 30138361 [SAMSUNG_REC2]
D MS Data 32446491 62584851 30138361
P Mac HFS 95421331 804258708 708837378 [$no_construct_double_linked]
P Linux filesys. data 1195761664 1953523711 757762048
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
FAT32, blocksize=4096, 272 MB / 260 MiB
Some system info is below
lonny@lonny:~$ sudo dmidecode -t system
# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Product Name: 940X5N
Version: P05AGQ
Serial Number: 0TQZ91AN400019
UUID: ec202640-746d-11ea-8519-bdfcf5981a00
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: SCAI-A5A5-A5A5-A5A5-PAGQ
Family: Notebook 9 Series
Handle 0x000A, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
System Configuration Options
Option 1: ASCI:FFFFFFFF
Handle 0x000C, DMI type 32, 20 bytes
System Boot Information
Status: No errors detected
lonny@lonny:~$ sudo dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: P05AGQ.033.181123.PS
Release Date: 11/23/2018
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 16 MB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
BIOS ROM is socketed
EDD is supported
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
UEFI is supported
BIOS Revision: 5.12
lonny@lonny:~$ sudo dmidecode -t processor
# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Handle 0x001D, DMI type 4, 48 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: U3E1
Type: Central Processor
Family: Core i7
Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
ID: EA 06 08 00 FF FB EB BF
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 142, Stepping 10
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
DS (Debug store)
ACPI (ACPI supported)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
SS (Self-snoop)
HTT (Multi-threading)
TM (Thermal monitor supported)
PBE (Pending break enabled)
Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Voltage: 0.7 V
External Clock: 100 MHz
Max Speed: 8300 MHz
Current Speed: 1700 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: Socket BGA1356
L1 Cache Handle: 0x001A
L2 Cache Handle: 0x001B
L3 Cache Handle: 0x001C
Serial Number: None
Asset Tag: No Asset Tag
Part Number: Not Specified
Core Count: 4
Core Enabled: 4
Thread Count: 8
Characteristics:
64-bit capable
Multi-Core
Hardware Thread
Execute Protection
Enhanced Virtualization
Power/Performance Control
