How to remove Mint dual booted (not working) with Win10
I have been through expert help to fix dual booted Mint on a Win10 Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop. The help was excellent I got back the boot menu but Mint would not boot I used boot-repair from a live Mint USB with no change. I have saved my Linux data and I need to remove Mint. The Win10 {anti sociable b*st*rd} would not update properly with the dual boot so I want to just get back to a clean{?} Win10. This is same as PLEASE HELP (with info) I have been on this for weeks and I need to finish a job.
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Windows should update normally if you can boot any live linux and run:
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sudo efibootmgr -o 5,6,4,3,2002,2006,2004,2005,2,0,1,3001 Code:
sudo efibootmgr -o 5,6 |
Thanks ... I prefer Linux any day to WIN.. but
I need the powerpoint/word/zoom project stuff on WIN however I have a problem running videos embedded in powerpoint on zoom like no sound.. and I use Linux to do video editing work. I feel uneasy about undoing what we did before as the boot menu looks better somehow so I am sure it improved things and I can live boot Mint off the USB ok. I suppose one option would be to run Mint in a virtual box and leave WIN10 alone for now. I have 16G memory and 1Tb HDD so would that allow me to load up my video prepping software and convert videos to something that will run on windows and transfer via a shared folder? I just don't want to disturb my WIN10 for now even if it won't update. I think ultimately I would like to have a Linux Mint machine with WIN#? safely locked up in a virtual box if that would allow WIN to have required apps loaded and access required hardware etc. Does [sudo efibootmgr -o 5,6 ] (-o mean order) and (5,6 = new boot order) ie just change the boot order back to WIN10? I tried reinstalling Mint but got partition errors before. After what has been done is that a possibility now? |
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It's been too long since I last installed Mint for me to provide specifics, but the installation guide clearly suggests you can designate that an existing home partition can be reused without reformatting, and the existing root partition can be selected for reuse with fresh formatting. The starting point is the "installation type" you choose, which must be "something else". Obviously "erase disk" is not intended to keep whatever is present there now.
Updating grub can be done several ways. The only way I ever do it is via chroot on a command line Linux boot. Once this has been accomplished with root authority: Code:
# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt Code:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
Thank you.. I ran the grub update and so pleased to see it found Mint but had a problem with "GRUB drive for /sdb1"
I had a look at mapfile but just don't know enough to do this.. Thank you so much for your patience.. Code:
mint@mint:~$ sudo mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys |
I just discovered I now have lost WIN10 on the ubuntu/Mint boot menu..
From uefi I moved WIN10 boot to top and got back my WIN10 so now I have no dual boot menu should I just use WIN10 to repartition the drive and remove Mint which then could be re-installed clean or can I fix the dual boot menu? |
Repeat the process you reported in comment #9 through the mount -a step, then run parted -l and/or fdisk -l instead of update-grub. Then show us that output as well as what efibootmgr reports. It may be necessary to use it as you did before, except to designate 5 be first instead of 6, to provide access directly to Windows until it can be determined just what happened as a result of /dev/sdb1 not being found when you ran update-grub.
Edit: You should be able to fix grub's menu once we can determine what caused the update-grub error. |
Huston.. I think we have a problem?
I should say to get live Mint up I F2'd into the bios and moved 'USB Memory' above 'WIN boot mgr' that's all.. Code:
mint@mint:~$ sudo mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys Code:
mint@mint:~$ efibootmgr |
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With your current efibootmgr output, after removing USB stick, you should be able to boot directly into Windows. |
Houston.. Yes that is correct as it is now removing the USB gets me straight into WIN10..
Check for re-entry.. I should have gone back and started from #8 followed by #9 as far as mount -a. Is that correct? One thing I did not try after update-grub (#8) was to actually try to boot into my installed Mint.. I sort of panicked because WIN10 did not appear in the boot menu. Now I am ok with getting into bios and changing the boot order if I move UBUNTU back on top should it boot my installed Mint since I did update-grub? It's cold out here in space.. |
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