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unfortunately it just sets it right back to g ...

thought it might be a result of an update - yesterday it was(that is, shutting down after update and it spontaneously rebooted), but today, not. So, still open... :( Someone suggested that next shutdown after a reboot would cause it, but, nope. (UEFI/GPT) (latest BIOS for T530 - 2.77) (no WOL) - EDI...

I have no idea what you mean by android emulator. I use android on my phones. mostly pie. afaik it was not designed to run on a laptop - different cpu, chipset, etc. Why would you want an android os on your laptop? linux was designed for it. android is very narrowly tailored for a phone's chipset on...

that's a great solution - just make prober not executable. nice! but I had already found grub customizer had been put into software so I installed it from there.
Thanks though!
(Fred never had a chance to offer a solution. I found a solution too quickly.)

Marked solved!

:) !!! oldfred on ubuntu forum had offered to look at things and while I was prepping info for him I stumbled on an answer: The trick is to NEVER use the entry in the bootup grub menu to boot to windows - IT WILL HOSE THINGS PERMANENTLY. When I want to boot to either windows, interrupt boot/boot ord...

Yes, I agree it is probably stored in memory, which is why I have pointedly been powering off, power on, choose target to boot to... while having this prob, to try to get around it. HOWEVER, (Ubuntu) (grub) boot menu is using that menu pointer to a windows logon as a target, rather than as a pointer...

or alternately, simply edit BIOS boot order... HOWEVER... eg If I have Mint and win8.1 and add win10, that will alter the boot order in the BIOS to put "windows boot manager" on top. This is good because for the first few boots it needs to get back in to the win that's being installed. when it is in...

Nope, it wouldn't boot windows right. would take 3 or 4 different tries. Fall back to before changes.

marked solved.

since I had a working win 8.1 it asked me if I wanted to update 8.1 or "something else" (microsoft's sense of the english language did not imply this but this was in fact what it was). Mint, on the other hand, bless them, just says "something else"! I chose the "something else" and that did allow me...

a) I don't use hybrid. I delete hiberfil.

b) I restored back to just after clone (unmodified), booted to win 8.1, used an old Easeus Partition Master to move the 2 NTFS partitions and then backed it up with clonezilla no problems. Gparted is contraindicated.

is that a BIOS setting?

Confused.

Well it would have been nice... The clone went fine and fast and Gparted happily moved a couple partitions but clonezilla refused to back it up even with manually doing fsck, or telling it to auto fsck. just said it (sda4, the first one I moved) was scheduled for a check and stopped. (I only moved 2...

ajgringo619 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:55 pm

Yep - shouldn't be a problem. I would strongly suggest making a backup of the drive to be cloned first.

what???????? (just kidding! of course! Thanks!

Thanks, so, yeah, I can clone it straight with clonezilla, but then I can get away with using a bootable Gparted to resize/move both Mint and windows partitions??????? Thanks!

How add win10 to mixed ssd w/o screwing up boot... Have grub boot to Mint and win8.1 Want to add win 10 (not to use but to play with/test)(bored) I think if I install win10 it will take over the boot. Is it as simple as then running Boot Repair Disk and fixing grub? UEFI/GPT on secure Boot. System i...

How clone main ssd to larger ssd and resize partitions?

using an old sammy 840 ssd 250gb
Want to copy to new sammy 860 ssd 500gb
BUT I would like to re-size and reposition a couple of those partitions.
It is mixed grub boot to Mint and win 8.1

I am UEFI/GPT on Secure Boot - see system in sig below.

nope.

then I thought it might be the rj45 (LAN) - stopped it a few times (I unplugged rj45 before shutdown) then recurred.

then I thought it might be USB - stopped it once but then recurred.

summary : I get this randomly on any Linux.

@stephanieswitzer have you used any "compatible" cartridges on it? Have a favorite? Ones to avoid? Tnx!!!

looking for this?
I tried attaching the full systemctl but even half of it (20KB) is too large for this forum.