Any and all help would be so greatly appreciated. I've been battling with my laptop to be able to dual-boot Ubuntu Cinnamon and Windows 10 for about four days now. I've probably gone down five or six different rabbit-holes of troubleshooting, GRUB command-line fun, reinstalling and updating the BIOS, trying and failing to deal with VMX and locked NVram. As of now, my system boot-loops and fails to run Windows, but paradoxically I am able to get Ubuntu running, which is what I am using now.
I'll try to provide as much relevant information here as I can:
- Device: HP ZBook 17, gen 6
- Primary OS: Windows 10 Home
- Linux distro: Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10
- Ubuntu location: /dev/sda3
grub-install --version= 2.12~rc1-10ubuntu4- boot-repair Boot-info summary: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/rxZ3D5GtpP/
- I'm more than happy to provide more information as it's requested.
As of now, I am unable to run Windows through the BIOS. If I run via the dedicated SSD as I normally do, it boot-loops, and if I try to go through any other drives it just tells me I need to install an OS. I am currently able to run Ubuntu, but only by going through the following process:
- Startup menu
- Boot configuration
Boot from EFI > Ubuntu > shimx64.efi
At this point, I am happy with two outcomes to this scenario:
- I am able to run my laptop with Windows 10 as the primary OS, with the ability to dual-boot to Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10.
- Assuming option 1 is impossible/requires a Herculean amount of work to pull off from this state, I am willing to scrub Windows 10 from my laptop and move forward with Cinnamon as my daily driver, though I am rather inexperienced in it. I can learn to move forward as I need to and run a VM or WINE for any Windows-specific processes I still need to do. But I would rather keep this option as my dead man's switch.
Sorry this isn’t an answer to the question, only a general reminder for whoever needs it to always create a disk image backup beforehand using Macrium Reflect or similar, so you can rollback nightmares like this.
Listen to what this person has to say, you people! I ignored multiple recommendations across probably ten different webpages to create a backup disk and I could have walked a lot of this back and started over, at the very least. FWIW, I'm sure that whatever is going on now is not irreparably broken, but certainly I could have saved myself some headaches.
Again, sorry I cannot offer a solution. I’m sure it can be fixed, I’ve just never had to figure it out.