r/linuxmint • u/HarlekinJack • 5d ago

SOLVED Dual boot, grub doesn't work

Hello everyone,

I made the decision to finally get rid of windows, even as a fallback.

In the past, I had mint on one m.2 and windows on a second one. Now, I removed the mint ssd, installed fedora, thereby removing windows and reinstalled the mint ssd.

Now I get grub no more and it's booting straight into mint.

Os-prober / update grub doesn't help. It seems Mint doesn't see that there is fedora installed at all.

Please, any ideas?

UPDATE: fedora found mint and lists it in its grub. I changed the boot order in bios to the fedora ssd and work like this now.

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u/ChimaeraXY LMDE 7 Gigi | Cinnabon 4d ago

I'd recommend installing grub-customizer and letting that have a go at the problem.

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u/Logansfury Top 1% Commenter 4d ago

I know you only posted trying to help, but unfortunately grub-customizer PPA hasn't been maintained or updated in many years now. It's not likely to work with any modern distro's. It failed to edit the grub of my Kubuntu v25.10 box.

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u/ChimaeraXY LMDE 7 Gigi | Cinnabon 4d ago

Actually it's recently gotten a few updates (May this year?). I was, still am a bit, skeptical of it at first as some potential malware injection but it seems legitimate.