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Yes, I realize you wrote the post and credits go to JeremyB . Also I changed things, that I changed, to reflect the distro I'm using. Two efi boot partitions was unexpected. I had recently installed Mint20, which installed as ext2 without any flags, and worked flawlessly. But when I went back to LMD...

Never seen a Fat32 boot partition, much less one flagged boot/esp. I too was surprised that the LMDE4 installer chose Fat32 for /boot, after I tried multiple times for an ext2 partition with no flags. It continued to complain until I settled for what you see in the screenshot. The scheme was workin...

jwiz wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 29, 2020 1:26 pm

'chroot' to the root directory on your disk and run 'apt reinstall grub-efi'.

Question:
Mind you, /boot has it's own partition, and is installed there, so....
Shouldn't that be /boot (/dev/sda8) instead of /root (/dev/sda10), to reinstall grub-efi, because the GRUB bootloader resides in /dev/sda8?

One thing I forgot was, one of the updates was a BIOS update from v.44 to v.45, and the other a graphics driver update.

Lost the ability to dual boot using GRUB. Windows bootloader now manages all aspects of boot, with NO mentiion of GRUB or anything Linux Debian. All has been running as it should, GRUB managing all aspects of the boot process, with GRUB Customizer installed and set to "boot from last". The...

mintusers wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 14, 2020 1:55 pm

When rebooting, the boot fails and drops to a initramfs prompts (busybox).

I am thankful to you for this post, as the info contained within has saved me some headaches and made the OS repairs a piece of cake!

If you would like help, please provide us information about your install by.... Here's my results using the 5.6 kernel. Hope it's helpful. hap@maypop3:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz System: Host: maypop3 Kernel: 5.6.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 wm: muffin 4.6.3 dm...

I run both W10/LMDE4 in a dual boot HP laptop During the LMDE4 install you will format the some partitions, such as, "/boot",and "/", but do not format "/home". Also LMDE4 runs a lessor 4.19 kernel, whereas Mint20 uses a 5.4 or a5.6 kernel, and most softeware will be 1-...

System: Kernel: 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.6 wm: muffin 4.6.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 15 Notebook PC v: Type1 - ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: ...

I think the whole install is somehow corrupted, because it no longer boots into Mint, but W10 still boots. Once it starts to boot from GRUB, it goes to "HP" logo, then to "LM" logo, and finally to "BusyBox". How do I get past this? https://i.postimg.cc/sBgCd8nR/Busy-Box...

I also get this,

Just moved from LMDE4 to Mint20 last night, but having a difficult time updating software. ScrnSht of error produced, https://i.postimg.cc/L8vGMP8D/An-unhandlable-error-occured-2020-09-14-11-19-58.png The thin "Details" line contains, Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/...

Yes, Mike.... Both OS's are installed on the same SSD, an ADATA SU760 512GB, it's the only drive in this laptop. The ScrnSht above shows my partition scheme, W10 using the first 6 partitions and LMDE4 using the last 4. This machine was booted into LMDE4, most all day yesterday, and all last night, b...

Would a kernel update to 5.4 or 5.5 perhaps improve the stability, and eliminate the freezes?
I'm currently at 4.19, I think, whatever came stock in the ".iso".

As you can see, not much has been added ti this install.

My LMDE4 is basically stock, with a few things added. It did this when running in the "Live" mode from the USB stick, before the install. I thought this would stop once it was installed, but this has not been the case.... It still happens from time to time. Sometimes with FFx running, some...

I find no references to this, elsewhere in the forum, but.... I have a dual-boot W10/LMDE4 on this laptop and get LMDE4 freezes from time to time. Nothing I can put my finger on causing it, and cannot reproduce it, but when it does the hard shutdown is all that works. I kinda suspect the Intel integ...

I took a little different route with the partitioning scheme. W10 and LMDE have their own boot partitions, you just specify which boot loader will be your default. Choose W10's boot loader and W10 will be the default OS with LMDE the 2nd choice. Choose LMDE's boot loader and LMDE is the default OS, ...

OK.... Where's the "SOLVED" button, so I can mark this solved?
EDIT: figured it out ... Sorry.

This thread is the answer to my post: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1672630#p1672630 I did not have to move "OS BOOT MANAGER" to the top of the list; only highlight it, hitting enter opens another window with options; 1. Windows, and 2. Debian. You highlight "Debian&quo...