Linux Lite not booting when I turn computer on

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Swamp Rat:
I realize that this topic seems to have been abandoned by the OP, but, if not, I will offer what I can. Your access to BIOS and/or Boot order should come up and display fairly quickly on booting. If it doesn't, you may need to read the owner's manual or do a search for the key to bring it up. Try Shift or F2 or F12 for starters.

As far as I know, both Windoze and LL need to be installed with the same (Legacy, EFI, or UEFI) setting.

When in Terminal, as you type in your password, NOTHING shows, but the entry is accepted if correct. Just type your password and press Enter.

I had no problem dual booting a few years ago, but I now only use Windoze for income tax preparation. I bought a used Win 10 computer that sits on my Family Room floor unconnected to anything until tax time.

You may need to use Terminal to update grub to make it operational. When I did dual booting, a fairly small box came up in the top left giving both OSs, with Ubuntu first and highlighted. Press Enter or let it boot in seconds to LL.

adrianhouse78:

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See your welcome message/forum guidelines on posting screenshots (IMGUR)
What's the make/model of laptop/pc?
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Thanks for that. I read the guidelines and here's the code that I got after entering Trinidad's command; he said to change some things in there but I didn't know where to do that:

--- Code: --- GNU nano 4.8 /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
#GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite'
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Linux Lite Grub background
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub_linux_lite.png"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
[ Read 40 lines ]
^G Get Help ^O Write Out ^W Where Is ^K Cut Text ^J Justify ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^R Read File ^\ Replace ^U Paste Text^T To Spell ^_ Go To Line
--- End code ---

If you could help me with where to make the change I'd appreciate it.

As for my computer, it's an Acer Aspire V5, 2013 I think. The bios doesn't load on startup - I think the only way to change that is to tinker with the hardware, which I'm not up for.

Thanks again,

Adrian

firenice03:

--- Quote from: adrianhouse78 on October 29, 2021, 04:24:02 PM ---
I wanted to attach a screenshot but this forum won't allow me to attach the png file. Thanks a lot for any tips you have.
Adrian

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See your welcome message/forum guidelines on posting screenshots (IMGUR)
What's the make/model of laptop/pc?

adrianhouse78:
Still haven't fixed this issue...anyone else out there able to help me? Thank you.

adrianhouse78:

--- Quote from: trinidad on October 27, 2021, 10:32:28 AM ---What version of Windows 7,10 or 11?
UEFI or legacy install?

You probably just need to unhide grub, comment out # the GRUB_HIDDEN lines in /etc/default/grub, save the file, and then update grub. You can also lengthen the timeout in grub so the grub screen stays up longer, and you can choose which operating system boots up first though its best if you are using Windows and allowing Windows updates to leave it set to boot Windows first.

You can mount Windows partitions from Linux and access Windows files from Linux Lite but not vice versa. Windows explorer does not recognize ext4 file systems. *You don't sound ready for powershell so I'm not going to explain it.

--- Code: ---sudo nano /etc/default/grub
--- End code ---
TC

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Hi again, yes so I managed to put that into the terminal and a bunch of stuff came up. But I didn't know where to write the "comment out # the GRUB_HIDDEN lines" that you suggested. I wanted to attach a screenshot but this forum won't allow me to attach the png file. Thanks a lot for any tips you have.
Adrian

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