(originally posted at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=149244 by mistake)
As background, have been dual booting Linux Mint (currently 20.1 - a much appreciated OS) and Windows (currently Win 10) for five years or so without any boot issues. I have a separate NTFS partition for my personal data, which is shared by the respective OS s...
Recently decided to try out LMDE 4 as a possible replacement for Mint 20.1, which is starting to have some speed issues, and find it well suited to my needs and faster than Mint 20.1 (particularly with regard to Libre Office, which is annoyingly slow opening in 20.1) - so at the moment have three OS s installed...
The LMDE 4 issue is: for some reason, booting into Windows introduces disk errors into the LMDE disk partition, which prevents booting into the LMDE OS & instead end up with an initramfs prompt... to fix either have to run "fsck /dev/sda# -y" at the prompt (a very lengthy process) & reboot or boot into Mint 20.1 & use Gparted to check & fix errors on the LMDE 4 (ext4) partition & then reboot into LMDE 4.
I thought it might have something to do with the EFI (fat32) partition installed as part of LMDE 4 but temporarily deleting it made no difference.
Any suggestions, short of getting rid of Win 10 - which is generally used once per month to keep it updated & to make Macrium Reflect backup images (a 3 to 5 min. process) of the Linux partitions, etc., would be appreciated...
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paul@lmde:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
Host: lmde Kernel: 4.19.0-14-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 2121A2U v: ThinkCentre M92P
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: MAHOBAY serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 9SKT9CAUS
date: 12/11/2018
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3470T bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 23145
Speed: 1597 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596
3: 1597 4: 1596
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics
vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0152
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-14-amd64
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e
v: 3.2.6-k port: f080 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1502
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
bus ID: 4-2.4:4 chip ID: 0bda:8153 serial: <filter>
IF: enx00e04c0c035a state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 625.36 GiB (67.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPLX-00MBPT0
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 1H01 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 73.01 GiB used: 15.14 GiB (20.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debbie main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
2: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
3: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
4: deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib non-free
5: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
Info:
Processes: 194 Uptime: 11h 46m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 1.06 GiB (13.7%)
Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash
v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
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paul@lmde:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD10JPLX-00M
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00011b7b
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 3074047 3072000 1.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 3074048 233757760 230683713 110G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 233760868 1951417959 1717657092 819G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 * 1951419888 1953521070 2101183 1G b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda5 233760870 1638168039 1404407170 669.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 1638168105 1794793000 156624896 74.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1794793064 1951417959 156624896 74.7G 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.