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Dual Booting (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

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I'm going nuts here. I hope dual boot questions are ok here.

For backstory, I was dual booting windows 10 and linux mint. Things were fine, until I think when windows was trying to update and on a restart it went to linux, and afterwards I wasn't able to boot up windows. I tried repairing windows with a usb but that was giving me hell about drivers, so I just wiped that hdd and installed windows fresh. Worked fine, got to play a game on there which was why I wanted to get back on windows, lol, all good.

UNTIL, I try to boot back to linux. Getting the grub screen, everything I'm seeing online about setting root to the harddrive where grub is was not working. Back to my tried and true method of wiping it all and starting fresh. I wipe it, get a new linux usb iso, boot into it, install linux, it says to remove media and hit enter to continue. I do that. reboot, get this zoomed in grub window where I can't type at all.

So I'm on windows, trying to hope someone here has had this happen before and knows what I'm missing or what I did wrong because this is really making me crazy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You may have to enable Legacy USB support to get the bootloader working. To clarify, Mint showed up with CSM Enabled or Disabled? If it showed up when Enabled, you may have inadvertently installed Mint using MBR / BIOS method instead of GPT / UEFI method. You will want to rectify that by redoing Mint install disk and the install as a GPT/UEFI setup. CSM should be Disabled.