Installing Mint w/Win10 on 7 yr. old Acer 32 bit

[jdmckay]

Hello

Did this install as described in subject. Older Acer Travelmate.

The problem: Win10 installation had 3 primaries, and seems Mint (Linux?) SWAP partition is counted as primary. I Installed mint with only 1 installation directory & Swap, but had to put Mint/Swap in extended partition. I installed GRUB in Mint BOOT partition. However, I don't see GRUB MENU at boot.... goes straight to windows.

I'm not real experienced w/Linux (getting there), but suspect this has something to do with Logical (boot) partition being in extended partition.

This is older bios, NOT UEFI. Not sure if I an move GRUB to a Win partition (?).

Any help appreciated.

[Laurent85]

From the Live desktop install boot-info-script, open a terminal :

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apt install boot-info-script
sudo bootinfoscript

Then pastebin RESULTS.txt to http://paste2.org and post the link.

[jdmckay]

Hi,

I got this straightened out. Win10 was just too slow on this old ACER so I did a clean Mint install as only OS on the machine. Only 2gb memory but runs very well.

Thanks.

[austin.texas]

Hi,

I got this straightened out. Win10 was just too slow on this old ACER so I did a clean Mint install as only OS on the machine. Only 2gb memory but runs very well.

Thanks.

Excellent decision! Good job.
Here are some useful links - since I saw your other thread requesting resources.
Linux Linx 2016
Ubuntu Help wiki
IBM's Learn Linux, 101 Tutorials
Linux Mint Beginners Search Engine
A guide on how to post on the Linux Mint forums
Rescatux CD: A tool everyone should have (includes SuperGrub2 and gparted)[/b]