[NCLUG] Dual Booting Linux on a laptop with UEFI

[David E. Auter]

Bob Proulx mentioned the problem may be caused by a move to
systemd-boot. It may, but I doubt this as Mint lags Ubuntu and at least
as of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS they were still using GRUB.

Evelyn Mitchell mentioned switching to legacy BIOS. I don't believe that
is necessary anymore as the Ubuntu/Mint installers now support UEFI.

One suggestion I saw from someone that encountered this issue was to run
the administrator prompt in Windows 10 and enter the command:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi

That solved the issue for them. Other links I found mentioned
reinstalling GRUB. A number of forums I found mentioned this solution.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:20:29AM -0700, Elizabeth M. wrote:
> I have a friend who recently got a new laptop (a late 2019 HP Spectre
> x360, running Windows 10) and she is trying to have it dual boot Linux
> Mint alongside Windows 10. She has done the installation with a live
> USB image, and it has the partition. However, it only ever boots into
> Windows 10 - it doesn't present any option to boot into Linux Mint. We
> think it's because the computer uses UEFI, but we aren't sure. Has
> anyone had a similar problem they were able to solve?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Elizabeth
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