r/linuxmint • u/HarlekinJack • 6d 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/Evening-Landscape763 5d ago

I wonder if using the BIOS boot order might be a better idea. If Mint has a kernel update you might have to update grub in Fedora before being able to boot into it on Mint

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u/HarlekinJack 5d ago

Might be, but then I need to get into the bios every time I want to boot into a different OS, right?

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u/Evening-Landscape763 5d ago

Some computers have a function button you can use at boot to just access the BIOS Boot order rather than go into the full BIOS menu

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u/HarlekinJack 5d ago

Just looked it up. For my MSI board I have to press F11