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- Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:43 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Installing Linux Mint with BIOS set to RAID on separate SSD
- Replies: 16
- Views: 764
Re: Installing Linux Mint with BIOS set to RAID on separate SSD
Setting it up it just a very straightforward matter of creating an empty /boot/grub/custom.cfg file and copy/pasting the complete custom entry that I provided into it as plain text. Alternatively, you can copy/paste it into your existing /etc/grub.d/40_default file and run sudo update-grub to pick i...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 2:56 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: LM 20 Cinnamon hangs on reboot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 120
Re: LM 20 Cinnamon hangs on reboot
Have you disabled Windows so-called "fast startup"? See here.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:18 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Installing Linux Mint with BIOS set to RAID on separate SSD
- Replies: 16
- Views: 764
Re: Installing Linux Mint with BIOS set to RAID on separate SSD
When the BIOS boots to the Linux drive it just goes straight to Linux without offering a GRUB menu of any kind. That's "normal' LM20 behaviour if update-grub (os-prober) finds no OS installation other than Mint itself. In that case, there is nothing in /boot/grub/grub.cfg to override the /etc/...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Mint 20 boots to grub
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1081
Re: Mint 20 boots to grub
You're welcome. Happy to help and glad it worked out as you wanted it to.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:59 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Install LM 20 Cinnamon on fresh laptop with 128Gb RAM [SOLVED]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 206
Re: Instal LM 20 Cinnamon on fresh laptop with 128Gb RAM
I have build an USB with Rufus 3.11 and GPT and tried both Fat32 and NTFS. Not exactly sure how that Rufus/GPT/Fat32/NTFS procedure all adds together, but the "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" result seems like something that would be more likely to arise from a bad ISO...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:45 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: HDD not getting detected anymore
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
Re: HDD not getting detected anymore
So, no matter what happened, I believe that the data should be intact in the /dev/sda2 partition - because I did not ask to format it. Recovering that would be my first priority. Unfortunately, given the history you've described, I'd suspect a catastrophic drive failure, and such failures aren't ne...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:30 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Live USB Install but no Grub ? [ SOLVED }
- Replies: 28
- Views: 710
Re: Live USB Install but no Grub ?
Seems like the topic title issue has been resolved. If you agree, I'd suggest marking this thread accordingly and dealing with any other issues under a new topic. More likely to get relevant responses that way.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:16 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Mint 20 boots to grub
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1081
Re: Mint 20 boots to grub
UEFI-GPT booting is what most people would probably choose for a new system. If that's what you decide, booting the Mint "live" installation media in UEFI mode is the critical determining factor. Then, just wipe out your existing Mint installation by changing /dev/nvme0n1 from an MBR drive...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Mint 20 boots to grub
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1081
Re: Mint 20 boots to grub
The system boot modes to which I referred are the two that I mentioned: UEFI-GPT and BIOS-MBR. In each case, the first term ( UEFI or BIOS ) refers to a type of system firmware and the second term ( GPT or MBR ) refers to a drive's partition structure. Detailed understanding of the two possibilities...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:36 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Mint 20 boots to grub
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1081
Re: Mint 20 boots to grub
I am very much learning linux so bear with me please. i have installed linux mint 20 when the pc starts it goes directly to a black screen with grub> , like in a terminal i have to type exit and system loads the GUI everything runs fine after that. is there a way to stop going to grub and straight ...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] cannot boot from bootable stick
- Replies: 15
- Views: 407
Re: cannot boot from bootable stick
System firmware, either BIOS or UEFI, and its NVRAM settings control the system itself and its start-up processes prior to its hand-off of control to the boot loader of any OS software that is installed on any storage device. Among other things, it is responsible for the initialization of devices an...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:34 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] cannot boot from bootable stick
- Replies: 15
- Views: 407
Re: cannot boot from bootable stick
yes unfortunately thats the case. well, my bios looks completely different. Strange that Lenovo would be so completely wrong about their own machine. Are you sure that it's an X270? Does it look like this with matching specs? In any case, the answer to booting any machine with a USB-attached drive ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Stack on the black background without icons
- Replies: 10
- Views: 215
Re: Stack on the black background without icons
My win 10 is installed on UEFI mode so that I am trying to install linux mint 20 on UEFI too .. I downloaded an iso file and burned it with rufus ... With Rufus, the proper boot mode must be specified for the ISO burn process. Did you tell it that you wanted and did it give you UEFI mode booting fo...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:19 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Live USB Install but no Grub ? [ SOLVED }
- Replies: 28
- Views: 710
Re: Live USB Install but no Grub ?
Yeah, Rufus fools lots of people like that. You must select the boot mode option you want when burning the ISO to the USB stick. You still just select the drive (not a partition) for installing the Grub boot loader. But it doesn't matter so much when the "live" installation media is booted...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:16 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Live USB Install but no Grub ? [ SOLVED }
- Replies: 28
- Views: 710
Re: Live USB Install but no Grub ?
OK so its NOT Mint that is the issue.. It appears this must be Operator Malfunction - but it annoys the dickens out of me.. that I have not been able to figure this out.. There must be a setting in the system that causes this to be a problem.. still open to suggestion Are you trying to install to a...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] cannot boot from bootable stick
- Replies: 15
- Views: 407
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Live USB Install but no Grub ? [ SOLVED }
- Replies: 28
- Views: 710
Re: Live USB Install but no Grub ?
It should, perhaps, be noted that any existing Windows(?) boot loader that was previously installed into that drive's MBR will be overwritten. That's no great loss as Grub can launch the existing Windows installation. If no such Windows launch option appears in the Grub boot menu on first booting th...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: Live USB Install but no Grub ? [ SOLVED }
- Replies: 28
- Views: 710
Re: Live USB Install but no Grub ?
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80XS v: Lenovo ideapad 320-15ABR serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad 320-15ABR serial: <filter> Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40700WIN serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: 5QCN24WW date: 07/29/2019 <<===== One additional ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:44 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: can't enter windows after dual boot install<SOLVED>
- Replies: 29
- Views: 966
Re: can't enter windows after dual boot install<SOLVED>
You're welcome. Hope it all works out well for both of you.
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:06 am
- Forum: Installation & Boot
- Topic: [SOLVED] Linux Boot USB
- Replies: 6
- Views: 234
Re: Linux Boot USB
Good. Glad you were able to sort it out. You needn't feel lonely. I would "guesstimate" that at least half the problems reported here involve system configuration issues one way or another.