Heya! Heavily rusty with linux business.
Turns out (I gather from some forum) Nvidia cards may jam the installation process on Linux Mint.
At least these days. Installed Mint on another computer with no such graphics card, works well.
Any chance I'm missing something here. I have Linux Mint 17.1 on a usb stick.
Last two reboots I haven't even managed to get into the boot menu where I could choose how to start the installation. Even though I chose from BIOS to boot from the flash stick.
I read somewhere that choosing the compatibility mode might help but yeah now I can't even get to that menu...

So weird...

It's seems it's not so "newer issue" please see here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=122257 The second method to boot up when during boot you need to hold shift in order to get to grub, there should be some bootloader even on the usb stick for the setup program.

thanks for help. I managed to get this sorted. Reading the manual helped too :)
My Asus at least has this Secure Boot Enabled by default, that had to be off. And some other stuff needed to be turned on. Finally it worked. Just needed 1.5x space in relation to base memory of the computer allocated for the switch space and voila.
It's quick, fast, simple. See if win 10 can beat this. :)

Oh you're probably talking about that UEFI thing on the new machines, I know it, glad you were able to sort it out!

Hi
I see this position is old, but you are still here in 2020!
So allow me to post a good news: Nvidia + Linux Mint
For those who would come through here.

Linux Mint 20 will feature improved support for NVIDIA Optimus.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906

Quel avancé impressionnante à chaque nouvel version de Mint!
En lisent se poste (Mint 17.1) que je n'ai pas connu, je me demande quel à était votre parcoure avec Linux!
J'ai eu la chance d'arrivé sur une version ou ma carte Nvidia à fonctionné immédiatement.
Êtes vous toujours sur Mint superstande?
What Linux for you leon30?