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Sorry, this was not a topic. The computer had been stored away several months, and I'd forgotten that updates to thunderbird were blocked because at the time I wanted to have the same version of thunderbird on the three installations of MINT on this computer, all pointing to a single space for mail ...

Strange question : With 2 versions of MINT installed on a machine, I get thunderbird 78.14 with MINT 19.3 thunderbird 68.10 with MINT 20.2 (installed MINT 20.1 plus update to 20.2) and these are the versions proposed by the update manager (and the software manager). Problem, these two versions are n...

Thanks for your help :) . Looking for tips on the internet, I get that grub2 is not as efficient as grub1 in tracking other linux systems on a linux only machine with several systems. Hence the solution you propose seems most interesting : the EFI grub.cfg would invoke the /boot/grub/grub.cfg of eac...

well, some progress in the understanding of this question. First, there are problems that were generated by me, some two years ago, by generating entries in /etc/grub.d/proxifieldScripts/custom and there I have the reference to the old kernel 121. But suppressing that, update-grub no longer finds th...

well, I've checked both /lib/modules and /usr/src on both systems, then run update-grub on the system that hold the active EFI partition, and again obtained a reference to an old kernel 4.15.0-121 in grub.cfg for the mint19.3 system using kernel 4.15. There are only two kernels for each system, the ...

On a dual boot system with two mint 19.3 systems, one with kernel 4.15 and one with kernel 5.4, upgrading kernel 5.4 results in introducing a reference to a kernel 4.15.0-121 in grub.cfg, which does not exist. Current kernel is 4.15.0-141 It is possible to get around the problem by manually correcti...

Thanks to a nice fellow on the forum who found the right tricky solution - Other users of DELL laptop may be concerned

A really excellent proposal. I modified the grub files according to the post from 'ask ubuntu', and so far the problem seems to be solved. I re-started the machine maybe 20 times with no error. put here a copy of these commands to clear tpm problem on the dell laptop sudo cp /etc/grub.d/40_custom /e...

Changing to the 5.8 kernel did not solve the issue. The boot error may still occur. I read on a post that a similar problem occurred on a DELL computer with windows removed and running only ubuntu or Mint. The idea of a mix-up due to windows is not convincing. True, there are a large number of optio...

Thanks for the help. Answers : root partition is at 47%, old kernels are erased. yes, I meant saving the EFI configuration although without changing it This machine almost never boots under windows. I kept it because the computer is still under warranty and was sold with windows only. But I added a ...

here the result of inxi -Fxxxrz : System: Kernel: 5.4.0-66-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 3793 v: N/A serial: <filt...

Hello, A similar problem on a DELL 3793 17' with an I3 processor. Running dual boot with MINT 20.1 Cinamon and Win10 with EFI in secure boot mode (I tried also without secure boot, with no difference). But first, this laptop has a 128G M2 disk with EFI partition and Win10, and a second internal SSD ...

It may be specific to some hardware, but obviously the EFI live boot does interact with whatever EFI hard disc on the machine. I suppose it might be to get some info about the hardware. I read that at boot there is a scan of all available EFI partitions, and then the system choose to use the first a...

Seem similar to what I experienced. If the EFI partition is damaged with an ASUS motherboard you may become unable to start the system due to faulty starting of subsystems. You need an EFI partition (a fat32 partition at the beginning of a disk with ESP & boot flags (to be checked) with size aro...

Timeshift not a solution when boot is not possible. Saw the boot repair in 19.3 after re-installing the EFI partition. I wonder if this problem if specific to some hardware (ASUS motherboard ?). Saw many posts related to grub, but EFI may also be an issue. Had a similar problem last year with anothe...

do you boot with EFI or CMS ? it seems that MINT 19.2 and 19.3 with some hardware won't boot if the EFI partition has been altered, even in compatibility mode, but would with a clean, empty EFI partition (see recent post by caramba). You may try with an older live version, MINT 18 for ex. The EFI su...

After migrating from Mint 19.2 to 19.3, it became impossible to boot my machine (linux only PC based on recent motherboard ASUS TUF H370-PRO WI-FI, no dual boot with Windows). trying to boot with a live system in compatibility mode : not possible with 19.3 on DVD or USB, very limited mode (no networ...

Additional info about upgrading issue : the NVIDIA driver is not used in my case, since the machine is using INTEL graphics
from an I7 3770 CPU. So previous remarks about what to do in case of a kernel change do not apply in this case.

Hello there, I guess I got into a similar problem, LMDE does boot after upgrade after running Mint Update on Sept 17 (huge download) and apparently a new kernel (3.10.2, from 3.2.0.4), my install doesn't boot anymore. It breaks before the login window. I tried ctrl alt F1 to boot in console mode, bu...

sorry if I'm not in the right topic. I'll join an existing one concerning broken LMDE
following upgrade. I'm about to re-install from scratch anyway... Good luck for the rest, and thanks for the advices anyway