After trying to get Linux Mint to work on my machine and at prompting from the spouse, I upgraded our computer and now have a newer build with Windows 10. Having a difficult time to get the unit to dual boot the 2 OS. Followed some examples I found browsing however they don't work. The new BIOS is UEFI and until now I never had problems installing Linux along with Windows. I have Linux Mint 18 in a partition however no boot loader to select which OS I would like to boot to. I have an ASUS H110M-K using the on board graphics; Intel core i3 6100 CPU and 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Sport RAM and a 275GB Crucial SSD. I disabled Fast Boot and am not able to disable Secure Boot. In the boot priority I have the DVD Drive, Windows Boot MAnager (Sata6G_1: (Crucial_CT275MX300SSDD) then Sata6G_1: Crucial_CT275MX300SSD (26662321MB) Disabled. I have also indicated the BIOS to boot the other OS. I believe the Linux OS is on the 3rd Sata6G_1 that is disabled. Any thoughts on this matter or if I can be pointed in the right direction?

I thought Mint was signed, but apparently not according to this.

If you can't turn secure boot off, look elsewhere.

UEFI support says it supports it.

UEFI is fully supported.

Linux Mint is not certified by Microsoft (and should not need to be). If your computer is using "secureBoot", turn it off.

Note: If you really need secureBoot, you will need to use rEFInd and sign the kernel with a MOK).

Edit:
The 64-bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI.
The 32-bit ISO can only boot with BIOS.
says http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3195
that's for 18.1, but others from same are likely to have same spec.

64bit only does {U}EFI/BIOS
is my take on that link.

See also [TUTORIAL] Installing Mint on a Windows 8/8.1/10 Computer for tips and guidelines.

According to the mother board specs, it has ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Mode. It appears Asus UEFI BIOS are highly configurable, which may also make them overwhelming, all indications are that secure boot can be disabled, here is an example.
There is a boot menu button in the Boot tab of the BIOS settings, click it to see if Mint is listed and try it. If not, disable secure boot, install Mint and allow installation of boot loader in EFI partition, then go back into BIOS to select Mint from the boot menu, there may also be a keystroke assigned, or you can assign one to get a BIOS boot menu upon initial power up.
You won't be able to boot anything off a disabled drive.

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TooTall,

Make sure that all your personal data and W10 system is backed up before you start!

This is a similar tutorial to the one posted Habitual:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/d...-8-ubuntu.html

There should be no need to disable Secure Boot.

Use UEFI boot and Linux Mint 18.1 MATE 64 bit:
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Good luck.

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Hi.

Do you need microcoughed-losedough$ ( school, Catbert eg?) If you have a factory reset partition with m$10 on it just leave it be (or not for resale &c) and use the rest for GNU\Linux! If you have 10® on DVD run it there in a VM...Have fun!

Yeah, now that "virtual machines" have become as good as they now are – and, since VirtualBox made them free – I gave up on things like "dual booting" a l-o-n-g time ago.

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It does make a difference to have virtual technology built into the hardware\bios, if I need be...

add: I do still multiboot but is Linux and Linux!

Thanks everyone. I'm going to read through the links and try some of this information out and see what happens. I'll report back.

I'd install Ubuntu LTS and then just add in what you want that Mint may have.