I poked around but was just poking- the partition table seems to have been changed.ĭual boot doesn’t work– looking for ideas.
To fix things, I ran a couple of steps and here is a detailed guide on how to fix Windows 10 not booting up on Linux. In my case, GRUB somehow messed up Windows MBR location and now I cannot boot to Windows 10.
By fiddling I can boot into a live Mint 17.2 USB install iso. Now, Ubuntu 19.10 comes with the new version of GRUB 2.04 which reportedly has lots of bugs. I booted into Windows (by now W10) and wifi works. I manipulated BIOS using the hidden pencil point operated button on the left so I had a clunking dual boot. helped enormously and I had working Mint 17.1 with 403G \home partition running off the ethernet cable. Partition Windows down to 120G leaving a \, \swap and 700G \home.Ĥ8 hours later I am left with a 470G W10 brick that has defeated all attempts to be configured. We set up Mint 17.1 Cinnamon with help of cover disk.
Lenovo G50 from Amazon arrives two days later.
It should have been simple- a friend just want a cheap Linux Mint computer- a laptop. But why would I opt to continue with the installation when the system will not be bootable? So, of course, I selected No to abort installation. The installer failed to write the boot loader configuration to the target device, which was the boot EFI partition. And in all the failed attempts, the cause centered around installing the boot loader GRUB, as you’ll see from the following screenshots.įigure 1 was taken from a dual-boot attempt between Windows 10 and Fedora 22. The curious thing is a few of the failed attempts had been reinstalls of once successful installations. Some of the attempts were successful, while a few were not. Due to the way GRUB Legacy (grub-0.97) and GRUB2 were slotted in Gentoo, both versions of GRUB may be installed on the same system at the same time however, only one version at a time may be installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard drive. On an OEM computer that shipped with Windows 8.1 and upgraded to Windows 10, that means setting up a dual-boot system between Windows 10 and Linux distributions on a computer with UEFI firmware. Since Windows 10 was released, I’ve made several attempts to set up dual-boot systems between it and a few Linux distributions (Fedora 22, Ubuntu 15.04, Kubuntu 15.04, and Linux Mint 17.2) on a brand new Lenovo G50 laptop.