[SOLVED] No Boot with live-1.3.1-1-amd64

Further info;
Fast Boot was, of course, OFF
Live-1.3.1-1-amd64 will not boot when Secure Boot Mode is OFF.

The Acer uses a Hynix M.2 NVMe SSD. (HFM256GDJTNI-82A0A)

A working Linux reports all 256GB available to format.

The Acer comes with an empty SODIMM slot, to which 8GB was added. There must be 4GB of soldered ram on the mother board but could not identify ram chips with just the bottom cover removed, so the 4GB must be on the mother board underside.

Win & Linux both report 12GB RAM, 2GB min is reserved for the Radon graphics and it can use more if required.

CPU is Ryzen 3 3250U

Mint 20.3 ISO boots, still listed as Linpus lite.

I now have a question.

What was the last GParted version that used the same Linpus boot system ?

Many thanks for those cmds mfleetwo (fleetwood mac fan?)
I really must read the MAN pages more carefully!

Mint 20.1 Live ISO has GParted as one of it's programs, and gnome-disks.

Once in Mint 20.1 I ran inxi which returned;-

:~$ sudo inxi -m
Memory:
  RAM: total: 9.73 GiB used: 632.4 MiB (6.4%) 
  Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB note: slots: 2 EC: None 
  Device-1: DIMM 0 size: 8 GiB speed: 2887 MT/s 
  Device-2: DIMM 0 size: 4 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s 

Your cmds were better.

It appears that;-
"Acer Aspire Notebook 3 Series A314-22" has 2 (1 not upgradeable) Memory Slots. Each slot has a max memory limit of 6GB which gives a combined max memory of 12GB (up to 8GB in user accessible slot) for the machine."

Must be a strange DIMM slot that is not upgradable! I suspect the 4GB is soldered on the Mobo and is just reported as a DIMM slot.

I managed to find a cheap branded 8GB RAM not quite optimum (performance wise) but good enough for for what is required - a cheap general purpose laptop, no gaming.
So I bought that before prices go silly.

Installed Mint 20.3 and I must say it runs quite well (with secure boot "on")

Thanks for your time.