Mint install on Samsung NP905S3G fails to boot

[w23]

Thanks for that tip, it works just fine without any changes to the conf-file of refind.

I have just set the ubuntu boot partition of mint to be the first optional partition to boot and it works.

This workaround is really great.

But still, I would prefer my system coming up like every other system with the internal booting of my installed system without a plugged in usb stick to free up my usb port.

At the moment I don't dare to install refind to my hard drive, I don't want to mess up anything there. I'll have to check the docs before I do that.


From an earlier posting of yours I think the buggy part is the NVRAM and/or NVRAM related firmware routines and I'm not sure if the bug is just a bug or deliberately installed by M$ or the firmware company doing it for M$. I could imagine that the laptop was confgured for M$ and M$ possibly said "on this laptop only windows is allowed and nothing else".
So installing a routine in the firmware that sees a non-windows boot config and counteracts on that to sabotage the NVRAM entry in a way to disable booting other OSes is a possible cause for the underlying problem of boot failure, as far as I have understood it at this time.

[fabien85]

You can try to use your refind USB stick to manage the boot order : see https://rodsbooks.com/refind/bootcoup.html#refind
Look for a boot entry called ubuntu and pointing to EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi or EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi (or same things but with / instead of \ ). If you find one, try to make it the default entry with refind, then reboot (or shutdown and reboot).
If that does not work, chances are that the firmware is buggy.