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Whatever software you use for disk/partition images you use, it's still very useful to learn how to reinstall a bootloader for an OS. Agreed! I would venture a guess that somewhere in excess of 50% of the issues people report having with various Linux distros are actually problems with boot loader/...

I think Timeshift is excellent for rolling back updates and changes in a running system, I don't rely on it for disaster recovery. Likewise. As you suggest, the "built-in" utilities of any OS, whether *nix or Microsoft, don't really provide adequate protection for true disaster recovery p...

Well, the question mark was significant. In view of responses to date, perhaps I should have made it a double or triple ???.

Ubuntu used ubiquity for installation and as far as I can tell the differences in the Mint version are just cosmetic. The differences are more than cosmetic. Mint, as currently available and whether compared to Ubuntu's latest release or any one of four other distros (Debian, MX Linux, Manjaro and ...

The LMDE edition didn't have that same issue last time I installed it. It really is too bad that it hasn't been corrected for the Mint installer, and apparently won't be in the immediate future at least.

That's unfortunate and rather discouraging. Mint's current installer bug and the resulting Grub placement into the primary ESP, regardless of any contrary user selection, sure does cause a lot of confusion.

Well, it looks like the latest Ubuntu 23.10.1 installer has corrected the Grub misplacement bug so that it now installs the /EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi file et al into the correct EFI System Partition (ESP) as chosen by the user. Here's hoping that new "bug fix" gets incorporated into Mint's i...

you won't have to re-install the LinuxMint system, but you will have to re-install it's grub boot loader. Not necessarily. Just making the EFI System Partition's (ESP's) /EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi first in the UEFI NVRAM boot order is usually sufficient after installing Windows. Other linux distros ma...

So I've read a lot of the posts here and I now know that I have the cart before the horse. I have Linux Mint already installed for over a year, and now I'm being forced to install the virus that is Windows 11. ... Not at all. It's not you that has the cart before the horse. It's just that all OS in...

Thank you for your suggestion, i think ATM i will pretend those redundancy files are not there :D That is wise. At least until you've been able to acquire a firm grasp of the UEFI BIOS management of your system generally and its startup process in particular. There are "standard" UEFI pro...

Hi, [...] I have 3 Ubuntu files on my bios [...] they all bring the same version of Linux mint and all my setting are in place. [...] Please post if you find a safe solution for beginner :) In circumstances where multiple ubuntu entries in the system's UEFI BIOS all produce the same desired result,...

Hi, I have a Razer RZ09-0423. I tried to install Linux Mint 21.2 but once I select mint on the grub menu I get an Out of Memory error then I get a kernel panic. [...] I am using the default install image on a USB stick. Can I fix this issue by modifying the default installer somehow? If the "k...

Windows will certainly have installed its boot loader (bootmgfw.efi) into the EFI System Partition (ESP) on the same /dev/nvme0n1 drive that includes its Microsoft Reserved Partition (MRP). The Mint installer may or may not have done likewise with its shim and boot loader (shimx64.efi & grubx64....

@arvy:- Thank you for your reply and your advice. When I boot into the live version of LMDE6 on usb I get 2 options, 1st one is under uefi systems and the 2nd is under legacy systems. It doesn't seam to matter which one I use as both give me the same options when installing. The difference is how t...

You should be able to access your ASUS CROSSHAIR V's UEFI BIOS directly by pressing the <Delete> key during the system startup. See Section 3.2 of the online user manual . Don't confuse the boot order priority listing and its settings with the order in which the system detects and lists all of the ...

You're welcome. Glad it worked for you. You might want to mark this topic as [SOLVED].

Next time, when you've successfully launched the HP 15's boot options menu with the <Esc> key, try hitting the <F10> key. That should get you into the laptop's UEFI BIOS setup where you can adjust its boot order priority to put Mint (listed as ubuntu) at the top of the list.

Provided that you boot the installation medium properly in UEFI mode (i.e., not mistakenly in BIOS-MBR "compatibility" mode) the Mint installer will install Grub into the system's primary EFI System Partition (ESP) which is /dev/sda1 in your case. In fact, it will insist on doing that even...

In general, ACPI errors occur because the Linux kernel includes some function that isn't supported by the system firmware. In many cases, they can simply be ignored. However, if some such error actually prevents you from booting, you should first ensure that the system BIOS is fully updated. One po...

Home built machine from a while back. Details below. I am wanting to try a live persistent USB of another linux (I know, probably bad form here). You can see the USB listed as ID-7 below. I cannot get the machine to go to BIOS so far no matter what I've done. got rid of the quiet splash, changed th...