[SOLVED] Mint 19.1 install as dual boot on Win10 Toshiba Satellite Pro/ Win10 cant update/ changed boot order to Win10 first lost boot menu lost Mint
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Mint 19.1 install as dual boot on Win10 Toshiba Satellite Pro/ Win10 cant update/ changed boot order to Win10 first lost boot menu lost Mint
I looked up how to change boot order on dual boot system. Can't recall actual youtube video. Now Win10 boots normally with no selection menu but still when updating it mostly reports it cannot complete and has to undo everything. I can live boot from Mint USB and backed up all my Linux data files.
I tried to reinstall Mint from the USB and it stalled with a partition corrupt error. I looked at the partitions and do not know enough to decipher what to reformat to clear out Mint and start from scratch and particularly scared of breaking my Win10 access. It would be very helpful if I could restore the boot option menu and get back both.
Boot any Linux live media from USB and collect output from parted -l or fdisk -l, and from efibootmgr -v, then paste their output here between code tags.
Because your attempt to reinstall might have damaged the existing installation, simply having your Grub menu back might not be sufficient to boot Mint again, but Windows should still be in your Grub menu.
Apparently using what you booted you needed elevated permission to run parted and fdisk . Try again prepending sudo to each, or login as root first if possible.
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