Linux Mint gets the most complaints about Grub not updating but it is not really a Mint problem. The volume of complaints is due to the fact Mint is the most popular flavor of Linux. The other reason is so many people install Linux on older hardware. This is another example of why Agile is not now, nor will it ever be Software Engineering. Your Jenkins automated testing doesn’t test squat. Here is the real … Linux Mint Grub Won’t UpdateRead more| Logikal Blog
Assuming you have a dual boot system, a desktop with multiple drives. GRUB is setup to dual boot wither into Windows or into your Linux distribution. Now, one day, you change the drive configuration. You add or remove a drive or re-partition a disk. GRUB still comes up, but it fails to boot into your […]| Martin Wojtczyk
Chainload GRUB 2 from GRUB 2 2021-11-27, 00:00 en GRUB Boot PXE I recently needed to set up a PC to dual boot Windows and Linux. Legacy BIOS, no UEFI. Unfortunately Windows likes to do Windows things and override the first-stage GRUB bootloader in the MBR with its own, and thereafter booting…| s3lph.me
Now that FESCo has decided that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS booting, the people working on Fedoras bootloader stack will need help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which require Legacy BIOS to boot. To help with this the Fedora BIOS boot SIG (special interest…| hansdegoede.livejournal.com
As you may know Ive been doing a lot of hw-enablement work on Bay- and Cherry-Trail tablets as a side-project for the last couple of years. Some of these tablets have one interesting feature intended to flash Android on them. When turned on with both the volume-up and the…| hansdegoede.livejournal.com
Recently I acquired an Acer Aspire Switch 10 E SW3-016, this device was the main reason for writing my blog post about the shim boot loop . The EFI firmware of this is bad in a number of ways: It considers its eMMC unbootable unless its ESP contains an EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi file. But it…| hansdegoede.livejournal.com
How to fix the Linux EFI secure-boot shim bootloop issue seen on some systems. Quite a few Bay- and Cherry-Trail based systems have bad firmware which completely ignores any efibootmgr set boot options. They basically completely reset the boot order doing some sort of auto-detection at boot. Some…| hansdegoede.livejournal.com
