UPDATE NOTE: The computer in this video died after 2 years :( I bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad and installed Linux Mint on it but it kept booting back into windows with not grub option. I ran gurb repair aka boot repair, but still it booted directly into windows. So I used the GrubToWin program. And it got me back up and going. You have to run it in windows. But it makes a better menu than the old version of grub that is usually in most Linux installs. It makes choosing what default to load operating system to use much more easy. I have had many friends I helped put Linux on there system before but would rather have windows load after the countdown by defult!
Why does the progress install display go away once I click continue on install of linux mint 20.1 ??? All it leaves is that circle spin mouse icon showing its processing something. 45 minutes now and no install progress panel. ????
What if i have two ssds and mint 20 is on 1 and win 10 is on the other, but when I upgraded to mint 20, grub cqnt find windows on the other ssd anymore?
Hello @Robbie Strike , So I was able to complete all the steps told by you but I came into a weird problem, when I click the Recommended Repair option in boot repair nothing happens. I have tried waiting for like 15 min and also tried multiple times but no response. What should I do?
It has been more and more suggested to me to use windows in a virtual machine. And don’t dual boot like the old days. I never load up windows anymore it can mess up your system is what lost of people been telling me.
@@neverfalter1017 Thank you Never Falter (and of course Robbie Strike for your techie wisdom). I had the same issue and it your tip managed to get me one step further. I might never have figured that out without your comment. After running boot repair I still had to go back into BIOS to manually adjust the booting order and put Linux as higher priority than Windows in booting order. Boot repair gave me a message telling me to do that. Now it works like a charm.
I just bought an HP 195P5AV and plan on returning it immediately. I tried many ways but Linux Mint simply would not work. I tried from the 19.1 tara version to a flash drive with V20. I got those ACPI errors and other odd behavior like the the screen going black/blank. So can you recommend another laptop manufacturer that works with Windows/Linux? I had Toshiba in the past and it worked ok.
For me it's the opposite. I have grub and I'm able to start Linux Mint. But when I want to start Windows 10, there's an error concerning the bios being corrupted and I can't start Windows unless I repair it with the Windows 10 disk. I can still see the Windows partition when in linux. Problem is that my pc was a Windows 8 that I upgraded to 10 when Microsoft gave us the opportunity. Therefore I don't have the Windows 10 disk. Also I'm afraid that if I fix the bios, I won't be able to see grub at the start. Any idea what I can do. I fully backed up my pc before installing Linux. The Linux install went smoothly except a lot of error message when shutting down after the Linux install.
I've installed Linux via a USB drive, i'm getting the same problem, but to get into LinuxMint do I have to use the same USB drive and boot on it to repair Grub ?
I think I wasn't clear enough : There's like a "trial" thingy to try the OS before installing it, do I have to do the commands here even though I've already installed Linux on my SSD alongside Windows ?
@@arnaud14 lol can u help me? I had windows 10 and today I installed opensuse. Now at the time of booting, the option to boot to windows doesn't show up. 😭
Help pls, i've got windows 11. And i just installed linux mint on my device (lenovo l390). But as soon i restarted my laptop after installing the linux mint, it just went straight into the windows (no grub menu whasoever). I've done what you explained in this video by doing recommended repair through boot repair, but it still showed the same result (boot straight into windows)..😢😢
Solved, i just reinstalled my linux and select the recommended one. Things got this way because i followed some youtubers to installed via the third option😅
@@arianbia7777 Also Try installing Grub Customizer. Can fix that problem possibly and is a easy program that can easily set what os you want by default.
Hey bro i have a linux distro and somehow that partition is corrupt and i wont able to load grub and wont able to access bios and bootmenu. It stucks on lenovo logo and after black screen .how to solve it
What if you want to do it the opposite direction??? I mean, Linux Mint is booting up but not Windows. I ran Boot Repair a couple of times with different options but I still can't get the GRUB loader to select the OS, it loads Linux Mint directly. I created a boot partition (
I have gone to NOT USING WINDOWS AT ALL. I have most computers I own just running Mint these days! Most people recommend using windows in a virtual machine. I haven't done that myself yet! th-cam.com/video/3aGEWEXTRQI/w-d-xo.html
@@revers3fibonacci873 fixed, had to reinstall Linux Mint....that's one of things I don't from Linux, if there is no way to fix booting, you need to reinstall everything....😑😑
Hey Robbie, I'm in a tight spot. I have an HP Laptop (w/ AMD processor circa 2015) which has Windows 10. I recently used Macrium Reflect to copy image of my old mechanical HDD to a brand new SSD (420 GB). After that, I decided to have dual boot with Fedora 31 (specifically the Design Suite spin), since I'm a Red Hat guy from a long time (RHEL, CetOS, Fedora, etc.). In my initial attempt to install Live image through a boot USB, I got a lot of problems with the boot media erroring out on me. I tried tricks with SuperGrubDisk2 and RescaTux, but didn't get any results. In fact, they didn't even boot properly had consistently gave me the "grub>" prompt. I even tried the Windows "BOOTREC /FIXMBR" and "BOOTREC /FIXBOOT" but still no go. Then I finally had a Derp moment when I noticed that the Windows has to have "Active" flag on the OS partition, slapped myself hard and connected the SSD to another working laptop to set the C: drive to active and got Windows booting again (whew!). For some reason, though my laptop is supposed to support UEFI, I founf that it only works with legacy. Now, after multiple unnecessary reinstalls of Fedora later, I still can't get Linux to boot automatically. I even used EasyBCD with all possible combination to get the Linux to boot, but every time it sends me back to the "grub>" prompt. This is how my SSD is configured: sda1 C: NTFS 300 GiB WIN10 sda2 /boot/efi EFI Sys Part 200 MiB BOOT sda3 / ext4 50 GiB ROOT sda5 swap swap 1024 MiB SWAP sda6 D: NTFS 96.03 GiB DUMP On the grub prompt, these are the commands I tried: grub> set root=(hd0,msdos3) grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64 root=/dev/sda3 grub> initrd /boot/initramfs-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64.img grub> boot I was able to boot Fedora and tried these commands in the terminal: # grub2-install grub2-install: error: /use/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory. # yum install -y grub2-efi-modules # dnf provides /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi # dnf install -y grub2-efi-x64-modules # grub2-install /dev/sda --no-floppy # mount /dev/sda2 /boot/efi # dnf install -y grub2-efi shim # dnf reinstall -y grub2-efi shim # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg Rebooted and still no luck :'( Where am I going wrong? Is it the BootManager in BIOS? Is it the partitions? Or is it the grub.cfg? Or is it the EasyBCD settings? I am really at my wit's (and my patience's) end. PS. Really sorry for the long post ...
Yeah um! when I am that messed up I just do a full reinstall. Probably not help to you! Sorry. Lots of have been telling me I should run windows in a virtual machine. (I have not learned to do that yet!) But windows is doing a Hogie thing to the hard drive. All this Microsoft loves Linux stuff is crap!
@@RobbieStrike it's just that I can't do fresh install of Windows (I got the free upgrade with no product key from Microsoft, so I'm stuck with the current install without ever trying to delete it)
I understand the situation. This is what made me migrate completely over to Linux. But for some SDR Radio stuff I'd like to try it in a virtual machine running Windows. One thing someone was suggesting. Is the have a hard drive for Windows and a hard drive for Linux in your machine. Something I'm currently doing on my desktop. The only more expensive solution I can suggest it just buy a computer for Windows and have a separate computer for Linux. :(
The video was good . voice tone and volume. clear speaking no distracting head banging music etc..BUT when you do demonstration videos.you need to really enlarge your fonts and screen size so we can read what you're looking at. At normal font size usually it's undecipherable. So if you are not narrating slowly what you are clicking on then we're lost.
Wow. Installed Ubuntu to dual boot and it turned PC into garbage - could not boot to windows or ubuntu. Ran all these scripts and terminal commands and looks like the grub boot failed again - now it only boots to Ubuntu - no option for windows. Why can't they fix something like this after 10 - 15 years? Really going to discourage anyone from trusting linux with their livelihood - still nothing but an interesting diversion.
@@RobbieStrike I'm thinking its something in Win 10 blocking it i'm gonna give it one more shot and then win 10 go's only reason I've kept it so far is some of my work programs need it
@@jonsouth1545 what I would do is get a second-hand computer on the cheap and run Linux on that. I spent over 10 years not buying a new computer and not spending more than $50 on a boat for computers that way
Happy to help. I get a lot of people telling me not to duel boot because windows will mess up the partitions. Linux is so easy to re instal. I rarely use windows any more!
I learned something new yesterday: I you run Linux and ever hybernate, you MUST use a swap partition or else you PC will crash. I think that happened to me 6 months ago and I ended up deleting Linux because of it.
@@RobbieStrike that is the word others used. I'd guess it means to let it sleep by itself for a half hour or so -with various programs open and waiting for you. That tends to use up RAM. I'd leave stuff open, then get busy in the kitchen with something, then my PC would crash. Not sure, but the screen saver may or may not be involved in some cases. These installations need to prompt us, tell us about such things- as in, select this or that partition with this or that size if A, B, or C is the case or likely.
Hoping this works on my MacPro/09 which runs Mint21 very well - jus need to enable the broadcom driver. You can get it from the install stick - jus shove that in before ya start Driver Manager. Make one wonder why this is not chosen for us during install. Don't install Vitrual Box to run Win-stuff - Wine is supposed to be better. My system went "kaflooey"(tech term) after uninstall - left a bunch of LINKS on my system files! Yikes! So I did a split and installed the newest Mint21.3 alongside. You guessed it - only boots 21.3 and the older one is now the red-headed step child. Doesn't exist unless you run Gparted.. and its certainly there! May need some special dispensation for this Mac -- tnx for posting! (run several T-Pads here - CPU cooling fans are the issue) good eqp!
UPDATE NOTE: The computer in this video died after 2 years :( I bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad and installed Linux Mint on it but it kept booting back into windows with not grub option. I ran gurb repair aka boot repair, but still it booted directly into windows. So I used the GrubToWin program. And it got me back up and going. You have to run it in windows. But it makes a better menu than the old version of grub that is usually in most Linux installs. It makes choosing what default to load operating system to use much more easy. I have had many friends I helped put Linux on there system before but would rather have windows load after the countdown by defult!
Why does the progress install display go away once I click continue on install of linux mint 20.1 ??? All it leaves is that circle spin mouse icon showing its processing something. 45 minutes now and no install progress panel. ????
20.1 has problems installing, just install with 19.3 then update it to 20.1
What if i have two ssds and mint 20 is on 1 and win 10 is on the other, but when I upgraded to mint 20, grub cqnt find windows on the other ssd anymore?
Did it change the boot priority in the bios?
Upgraded to Windows 11 on my dual boot Linux Mint laptop ; this worked perfectly. Thanx so much for sharing this!
Glad it helped!
I dual booted ubuntu 20.04 and when I turn on my pc and try to select windows in grub it doesnt do anything can you help with this?
Can you just move the drive that you installed Linux on top in the BIOS? And then run it
Hello @Robbie Strike , So I was able to complete all the steps told by you but I came into a weird problem, when I click the Recommended Repair option in boot repair nothing happens. I have tried waiting for like 15 min and also tried multiple times but no response. What should I do?
It has been more and more suggested to me to use windows in a virtual machine. And don’t dual boot like the old days. I never load up windows anymore it can mess up your system is what lost of people been telling me.
Close the terminal and boot repair, then open boot repair from the start menu. it did the trick for me.
@@neverfalter1017 Thank you Never Falter (and of course Robbie Strike for your techie wisdom). I had the same issue and it your tip managed to get me one step further. I might never have figured that out without your comment. After running boot repair I still had to go back into BIOS to manually adjust the booting order and put Linux as higher priority than Windows in booting order. Boot repair gave me a message telling me to do that. Now it works like a charm.
@@skipinkoreaable I'm glad to be of help. :)
I had the same problem. I rebooted the laptop, reopened Boot Repair and it worked!!!!!!
I just bought an HP 195P5AV and plan on returning it immediately. I tried many ways but Linux Mint simply would not work. I tried from the 19.1 tara version to a flash drive with V20. I got those ACPI errors and other odd behavior like the the screen going black/blank. So can you recommend another laptop manufacturer that works with Windows/Linux? I had Toshiba in the past and it worked ok.
HP sucks, I buy cheep Acer laptops :)
For me it's the opposite. I have grub and I'm able to start Linux Mint. But when I want to start Windows 10, there's an error concerning the bios being corrupted and I can't start Windows unless I repair it with the Windows 10 disk. I can still see the Windows partition when in linux. Problem is that my pc was a Windows 8 that I upgraded to 10 when Microsoft gave us the opportunity. Therefore I don't have the Windows 10 disk. Also I'm afraid that if I fix the bios, I won't be able to see grub at the start. Any idea what I can do. I fully backed up my pc before installing Linux. The Linux install went smoothly except a lot of error message when shutting down after the Linux install.
I've installed Linux via a USB drive, i'm getting the same problem, but to get into LinuxMint do I have to use the same USB drive and boot on it to repair Grub ?
I think I wasn't clear enough : There's like a "trial" thingy to try the OS before installing it, do I have to do the commands here even though I've already installed Linux on my SSD alongside Windows ?
Nevermind I got it to work, thanks !
@@arnaud14 lol can u help me? I had windows 10 and today I installed opensuse. Now at the time of booting, the option to boot to windows doesn't show up. 😭
Help pls, i've got windows 11. And i just installed linux mint on my device (lenovo l390). But as soon i restarted my laptop after installing the linux mint, it just went straight into the windows (no grub menu whasoever). I've done what you explained in this video by doing recommended repair through boot repair, but it still showed the same result (boot straight into windows)..😢😢
Solved, i just reinstalled my linux and select the recommended one. Things got this way because i followed some youtubers to installed via the third option😅
@@arianbia7777 Also Try installing Grub Customizer. Can fix that problem possibly and is a easy program that can easily set what os you want by default.
Hey bro i have a linux distro and somehow that partition is corrupt and i wont able to load grub and wont able to access bios and bootmenu. It stucks on lenovo logo and after black screen .how to solve it
Grubtowin i think the windows program of this is called!
What if you want to do it the opposite direction??? I mean, Linux Mint is booting up but not Windows.
I ran Boot Repair a couple of times with different options but I still can't get the GRUB loader to select the OS, it loads Linux Mint directly.
I created a boot partition (
I have gone to NOT USING WINDOWS AT ALL. I have most computers I own just running Mint these days! Most people recommend using windows in a virtual machine. I haven't done that myself yet! th-cam.com/video/3aGEWEXTRQI/w-d-xo.html
did u fix ur problem?
@@revers3fibonacci873 fixed, had to reinstall Linux Mint....that's one of things I don't from Linux, if there is no way to fix booting, you need to reinstall everything....😑😑
Thank you sir..it worked fine but now, when I boot to windows, the time and date is showing abnormalities
Man, thank you, you saved my life, I was looking for a solution for this in months.
Mine only book in linux mint, no option while booting to choose windows 10, anyone can help!!
Saved my life, thanks from Rio de Janeiro!
Super video. Finally I'm able to fix my grub. Thank you
Glad it helped
Hey Robbie,
I'm in a tight spot. I have an HP Laptop (w/ AMD processor circa 2015) which has Windows 10. I recently used Macrium Reflect to copy image of my old mechanical HDD to a brand new SSD (420 GB). After that, I decided to have dual boot with Fedora 31 (specifically the Design Suite spin), since I'm a Red Hat guy from a long time (RHEL, CetOS, Fedora, etc.).
In my initial attempt to install Live image through a boot USB, I got a lot of problems with the boot media erroring out on me. I tried tricks with SuperGrubDisk2 and RescaTux, but didn't get any results. In fact, they didn't even boot properly had consistently gave me the "grub>" prompt.
I even tried the Windows "BOOTREC /FIXMBR" and "BOOTREC /FIXBOOT" but still no go. Then I finally had a Derp moment when I noticed that the Windows has to have "Active" flag on the OS partition, slapped myself hard and connected the SSD to another working laptop to set the C: drive to active and got Windows booting again (whew!). For some reason, though my laptop is supposed to support UEFI, I founf that it only works with legacy.
Now, after multiple unnecessary reinstalls of Fedora later, I still can't get Linux to boot automatically. I even used EasyBCD with all possible combination to get the Linux to boot, but every time it sends me back to the "grub>" prompt. This is how my SSD is configured:
sda1 C: NTFS 300 GiB WIN10
sda2 /boot/efi EFI Sys Part 200 MiB BOOT
sda3 / ext4 50 GiB ROOT
sda5 swap swap 1024 MiB SWAP
sda6 D: NTFS 96.03 GiB DUMP
On the grub prompt, these are the commands I tried:
grub> set root=(hd0,msdos3)
grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64 root=/dev/sda3
grub> initrd /boot/initramfs-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64.img
grub> boot
I was able to boot Fedora and tried these commands in the terminal:
# grub2-install
grub2-install: error: /use/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.
# yum install -y grub2-efi-modules
# dnf provides /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
# dnf install -y grub2-efi-x64-modules
# grub2-install /dev/sda --no-floppy
# mount /dev/sda2 /boot/efi
# dnf install -y grub2-efi shim
# dnf reinstall -y grub2-efi shim
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Rebooted and still no luck :'(
Where am I going wrong? Is it the BootManager in BIOS? Is it the partitions? Or is it the grub.cfg? Or is it the EasyBCD settings? I am really at my wit's (and my patience's) end.
PS. Really sorry for the long post ...
Yeah um! when I am that messed up I just do a full reinstall. Probably not help to you! Sorry. Lots of have been telling me I should run windows in a virtual machine. (I have not learned to do that yet!) But windows is doing a Hogie thing to the hard drive. All this Microsoft loves Linux stuff is crap!
@@RobbieStrike it's just that I can't do fresh install of Windows (I got the free upgrade with no product key from Microsoft, so I'm stuck with the current install without ever trying to delete it)
I understand the situation. This is what made me migrate completely over to Linux. But for some SDR Radio stuff I'd like to try it in a virtual machine running Windows. One thing someone was suggesting. Is the have a hard drive for Windows and a hard drive for Linux in your machine. Something I'm currently doing on my desktop. The only more expensive solution I can suggest it just buy a computer for Windows and have a separate computer for Linux. :(
do the disk repair with out internet?
Turned out to be the best solution for me :))
The video was good . voice tone and volume. clear speaking no distracting head banging music etc..BUT when you do demonstration videos.you need to really enlarge your fonts and screen size so we can read what you're looking at. At normal font size usually it's undecipherable. So if you are not narrating slowly what you are clicking on then we're lost.
Is it the same but it starts linux instead of windows?
By default I have it to go to Linux mint but i can select windows also if I want
So i just have to fix grub?
yep! It worked! Thank you sir.
Ok this boot-repair just froze and did nothing i clicked and nothing happens
Thank you sir worked perfectly!!
Glad it helped
Man… I have the opposite problem. Now my Linux boots but windows is just a blinking underscore…
Did you try running grab repair
Worked absolutely perfect after Windows caused issues for me thank you very much :)
Wow. Installed Ubuntu to dual boot and it turned PC into garbage - could not boot to windows or ubuntu. Ran all these scripts and terminal commands and looks like the grub boot failed again - now it only boots to Ubuntu - no option for windows. Why can't they fix something like this after 10 - 15 years? Really going to discourage anyone from trusting linux with their livelihood - still nothing but an interesting diversion.
You really don’t need windows anyway! I have not used windows in months! LOL
Tried every option none worked going crazy one step away from just throwing the computer into the river
As I'm finding out on some computers it doesn't always work the same. Worst case scenario I've dealt with that is reinstall
@@RobbieStrike I'm thinking its something in Win 10 blocking it i'm gonna give it one more shot and then win 10 go's only reason I've kept it so far is some of my work programs need it
@@jonsouth1545 what I would do is get a second-hand computer on the cheap and run Linux on that. I spent over 10 years not buying a new computer and not spending more than $50 on a boat for computers that way
Thanks buddy you are awesome... Keep helping geeks like me.😆
Happy to help. I get a lot of people telling me not to duel boot because windows will mess up the partitions. Linux is so easy to re instal. I rarely use windows any more!
Thanks!!You saved my life. 👨🏻💻
why do I happen to not have known of you before?
thanks a lot man!! it worked.
Life saver!! Thank you
I learned something new yesterday: I you run Linux and ever hybernate, you MUST use a swap partition or else you PC will crash. I think that happened to me 6 months ago and I ended up deleting Linux because of it.
Hibernate?
@@RobbieStrike that is the word others used. I'd guess it means to let it sleep by itself for a half hour or so -with various programs open and waiting for you. That tends to use up RAM. I'd leave stuff open, then get busy in the kitchen with something, then my PC would crash. Not sure, but the screen saver may or may not be involved in some cases. These installations need to prompt us, tell us about such things- as in, select this or that partition with this or that size if A, B, or C is the case or likely.
it worked, dude... thanks
Thank you its works fine
Got it going. Thanks!
boot repair doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it
Same here...
thanks a lot, that was fun
It works !
Hoping this works on my MacPro/09 which runs Mint21 very well - jus need to enable the broadcom driver. You can get it from the install stick - jus shove that in before ya start Driver Manager. Make one wonder why this is not chosen for us during install. Don't install Vitrual Box to run Win-stuff - Wine is supposed to be better. My system went "kaflooey"(tech term) after uninstall - left a bunch of LINKS on my system files! Yikes! So I did a split and installed the newest Mint21.3 alongside. You guessed it - only boots 21.3 and the older one is now the red-headed step child. Doesn't exist unless you run Gparted.. and its certainly there! May need some special dispensation for this Mac -- tnx for posting! (run several T-Pads here - CPU cooling fans are the issue) good eqp!
Works 100%
I agree Linux is best!
YES!
Worked fine🫡