On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:57, B D dzidek23@gmail.com wrote:
Since Windows 10 was introduced it always messed up with Linux boot. If your wife is happy with Ubuntu, why do you need to keep Windows at all?
I thought that more recently Win10 played more nicely?
My concern here is that for whatever reason grub isn't getting a look in. If I go straight from Ubuntu install (inc grub, in theory) to booting Ubuntu (or at least trying to) then surely Windows never gets chance to "break" anything? If so a wipe and clean install of Ubuntu only could well leave me with nothing that boots at all. And I I might struggle to restore Windows at that point (I'd have lost the OEM install partition, and whilst I could reinstall Win10 from USB I'd have lost all the supplied ASUS drivers which may be problematic.)
On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 13:06 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:57, B D dzidek23@gmail.com wrote:
Since Windows 10 was introduced it always messed up with Linux boot. If your wife is happy with Ubuntu, why do you need to keep Windows at all?
I thought that more recently Win10 played more nicely?
I gave up with dual boot years ago. I either install Linux as a host O/S and run whatever-it-is as a VM (usually with VirtualBox)or (as in the case of my sim racing machine) run W10 on dedicated hardware, especially since in that case I could never get it to boot Linux reliably anyway.
OK, progress has been made.
Following some tips elsewhere I discovered that /dev/nvme0n1p1 is being corrupted.
dosfsck lets me fix it, but I then reboot into Windows to make sure that I can still at least do that and Windows also then fixes it, so on my next boot to the live USB installer there's corruption again.
But I had to stop for something to eat so I left Windows creating a recovery disk which (I think/hope) includes everything (inc Asus drivers) for a re-install, and then later bit the bullet, took the plunge and did a full clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 (wiping the disk completely and enabling boot disk encryption). And that installed fine.
I still have that Windows installer available if I ever need it but for now I'm setting everything up as whole disk Ubuntu with VMs for Windows stuff (as my wife had before on the old laptop).
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Mark Rogers