I tried boot-repair installed from liveusb, it did not work.
I have tried lots of stuff, nothing works.
I tried the manual install and update of grub.
I have also sought help on mintforums
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...33974#p1333974
NOTHING will make it boot linux.
It does run win10, win7.
I have a situation here where I do boot ubuntu from this board off a different hard drive.
I had installed ubuntu on a different PC, when that PC failed, I put the drive in this PC and it boots up.
BUT this motherboard will not boot new install of either mint or ubuntu,
Board is MSI 760GM-E51
I have no clue as to what is going on anymore with this thing.
I am using ubuntu on it to type this message.
My guess is If I want to install a new version of linux, I will be left with a non booting system. So I am really stuck and will have to buy a new PC to run linux or live with old linux OS. Better hope the hard drive does not crash.
I read other people say about this motherboard, bios supports UEFI and motherboard does not, but these KID compute geek wannabes don't really have a clue and give out worthless info, what ever pops into their heads.
My recommendation, do not buy MSI products. Buy Motherboards where UEFI can be disabled.
Scream at linux programmers to really fix UEFI install errors, no one trying to install linux should get cryptic UEFI errors on an install.
My guess is there are plenty of folk out there who wanted to install linux but could not because of UEFI errors, but they are the silent majority and do not post complaints on message boards.
On a FRESH installer install with a blank drive, the linux installer complains that this computer bios has booted in UEFI mode and the drive has os installed in bios mode and says this may prevent it from booting, if you FORCE a UEFI install to move forward... It does that with a blank hard drive, one that the installer erased.
Perhaps the drive needs to be formatted with NTFS, somehow totally wiped. I just do not know.