The first thing to figure out is whether you are running in uefi or mbr mode…
If the former, you should be able to see the boot loader as a boot option in the bios. Windows updates on my 3yr old g14 regularly deletes the uefi entry for grub, and I have to re-create it. Grub then allows me to select win10 or Garuda (arch variant) Sent from my iPhone On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 13:38, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Terry, > > > I suspect most people start with Windows and then install linux, but > > I already have a valid Kubuntu 23.10 installation, so (of course) > > Windows overwrote the existing boot menu and the machine simply booted > > into Windows with no choice given. > > > > I had expected this and believed that it could be fixed using > > grub-update. I was able to access the boot menu provided by the BIOS > > (F12 on this machine) and got back into Kubuntu OK, but when I ran > > grub-update that didn't work. I then ran grub-probe and the Windows > > partition showed up OK, but that didn't allow grub-update to work. > > A read of > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows > may be interesting, despite it being Arch Linux. > > One issue the whether the disk is now MBR or UEFI formatted. > The page covers finding out what Windows thinks and configuring > dual-boot with Linux going first. They may give some pointers of what > to examine. > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-01-02 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-01-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
