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OK, thanks for your effort. I feel bad taking up your time. The good news is once Mint is up it works pretty well. Is there a way to uninstall/reinstall Grub2Win? Super long shot. What is the best way to clean uninstall? On 6/22/2021 7:03 PM, Drummer wrote: Hi again Cat, I'm stumped. Both Mint and Grub2Win make use of GNU Grub to load Linux. You must realize that GNU Grub simply loads the Mint Linux kernel into memory. Then Mint Linux takes over and Grub is long gone. It is possible that the Mint...
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OK, I tried that and, unfortunately, it acts the same as the "quiet splash". Wait a minute, was I supposed to be including the * symbols? I didn't do that. I also did not try completely uninstalling, then re-installing. If you think that might be worth a try, please tell me how to properly uninstall. Thanks again for your attempts! On 6/22/2021 2:44 PM, Drummer wrote: Hi again Cat, Please try this tweak to the Mint bootparms. Run Grub2Win and edit the Mint boot entry. Change the bootparms from "quiet...
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Great directions. Here it is. I am pretty excited to (after weeks of trying) get this dialed in! Thanks! On 6/22/2021 10:42 AM, Drummer wrote: Hi Cat, Unfortunately the file from the EFI partition won't work. It is just a stub with no information. Here's what you need to do: 1. Boot Mint Linux 2. *Within Linux*, copy the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file to a fat32 flash drive or to a Windows NTFS partition, maybe the Windows C: partition. Name the file "linux.grub.cfg". 3. Send me the linux.grub.cfg file....
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I may have figured out how to send you the grub.cfg file. It is attached. I used the Grub2Win "EFI Update Actions" window to "browse" to the EFI partition (pretty cool!). Once there, I copied the grub.cfg from the ubuntu subfolder. I could not find anything that had this folder structure: /boot/grub/grub.cfg It was instead: M:\EFI\ubuntu\grub.cfg Let me know if this is what you needed. Again, thanks for your time! bigcat On 6/22/2021 6:24 AM, Drummer wrote: Hi again Cat, This very likely has to do...
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I may have figured out how to send you the grub.cfg file. I attached it to an email. I used the Grub2Win "EFI Update Actions" window to "browse" to the EFI partition (pretty cool!). Once there, I copied the grub.cfg from the ubuntu subfolder. I could not find anything that had this folder structure: /boot/grub/grub.cfg It was instead: M:\EFI\ubuntu\grub.cfg Let me know if this is what you needed. Again, thanks for your time! bigcat
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Hi Dave, I sent the first one via your software. How do I get "A copy of the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file from your Linux Mint system"? Thanks!
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Hi Dave, I am sorry to bother you again. After installing Grub2Win my boot time increased by 30 seconds. After our last communications, I even completely deleted my Linux mint partition and reinstalled it. It was running great and booting almost instantly. Then I used your Grub2 Win again and, while it works, it still adds almost exactly 30 seconds of Verbose boot time log messages. When I use the "quiet splash" it does HIDE the boot time log messages, but Mint still takes that extra 30 seconds to...
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OK, thanks, that is all what I expected! Thanks for the cool software and your availability!
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Hi, did you receive or get a chance to look at the files I emailed you? I am wondering if there is a way to get all OS's on the same menu without resorting to a sub-menu for the multiple Windows versions (I think the answer is no). Also, I am wondering if there are any general problems that are obvious from those files I sent. But only if looking at it is something fast for you. Like I said, I had various issues. It seems to work now, but I think it boots slower. Thanks again for your time!
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Hi, I just emailed you the diagnostic file. Thanks for your time! I had some error messages when installing the last Windows 10 version. I had to change BIOS settings temporarily to get it to install, then I switched them back. Secure boot to UEFI, then back to Other OS, I think, though I changed a lot of stuff to get this whole thing to work. I got some kind of temporary boot loop and checkdisk started running. Things seem to work now, though. And thanks for the Linux Mint tip. That sounds like...
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OK, I think the answer to 1) above is that if I only had Linux and one version of Windows there would be a single menu and the Windows choice would boot right into Windows. As I have more than one version of Windows, there has to be that secondary menu where I choose WHICH Windows. This is a limitation created by Microsoft and UEFI. I had hoped someone would figure out a way around this, but, unless I am mistaken, no one has. I will live with it until someone tells me otherwise. Now on to 2). I see...
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Hi, I am trying to multi boot Win 7, Win 10 and Linux Mint. I have them all on the same GPT drive at the moment. I have the PC now doing UEFI. 1) Is there a way to have the top level boot menu show Win 7, Win 10 and Mint on the same screen as choices? The boot menu seems to put the Windows options in a sub-menu. 2) When I boot to Mint, the screen starts showing a bunch of extra code and then pauses before Mint actually loads. It did not do that before. How can I make Linux load faster and skip all...
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