Any fellow Linux users on here?

[Judge]

@Crabcore :

Yeah, agreed with @Outdated. I'd start first with reviewing your boot device sequence within the BIOS, apart from sharing what your GRUB file looks like. And what kind of video card are you running?

My GRUB file is pretty simple at the moment with Mint 22.3, having configured it to boot up quickly on a separate SSD without much fanfare beyond the Mint logo:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release; echo ${NAME:-Ubuntu} ) 2>/dev/null || echo Ubuntu`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash loglevel=3"

GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1080

I know Linux Mint runs with or without Secure Boot, though if you opt for secure boot you have to configure it during the initial installation process and give it a password. If you bypass that process on installation, it may not boot up Mint at all given your bios requires secure boot to run Windows.

I opted to turn off Secure Boot in the BIOS altogether as I run both Mint 22.3 and Pop!OS22.04 on different removable drives using Icy Dock hardware. Though at one point I thought about using Windows 11 on another drive as well, and bypassing a lot of dual boot concerns.

I know with Pop!OS22.04 I cannot run it at all if Secure Boot is enabled in my BIOS. Otherwise it just boots into a blanks screen and remains there.

If you have a more current Nvidia card, with the latest drivers you can access in Linux Mint 22 you can change your modeset parameters within the file: nvidia-drivers-kms.conf:

# This file was generated by nvidia-driver-550
# Set value to 0 to disable modesetting fbdev=1 eliminates failure to grab modeset error
options nvidia-drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

 

[Outdated]

I've got a cheap desktop that I wanted to dual-boot with while I'm learning x64 ASM, and even after changing all of the 'fast boot' and windows-oriented settings in the bios (I also tried everything on UEFI, then legacy when that failed, flipped settings one way, flipped them back, etc), I still can't boot either Ubuntu or Mint from USB. GRUB shows up, I see the distro's logo, and after a good ~5 minutes, the PC reboots, and the cycle continues.

Just another quick thought - are you trying to dual boot both OSs on the one harddrive?

Microsoft worked out how to stop that and Windows will delete the Linux boot partition every time.

Put Linux on a physically different drive. Physically disconnect the drive that has Windows on it while you're doing this so that Linux can't interfere with the Windows boot partition and Windows can't interfere with Linux's.

Don't try to use Grub to give you a dual boot menu, this will also cause issues. Have the two OSs on separate physical drives (not partitions) and use the BIOS boot menu to decide which to boot from.

Doing it this way you can even install Linux on an external USB drive.

 

[Judge]

Put Linux on a physically different drive. Physically disconnect the drive that has Windows on it while you're doing this so that Linux can't interfere with the Windows boot partition and Windows can't interfere with Linux's.

Works for me....thanks to Icy Dock technology (see link below):

Dual booting between Linux and another OS always gave me the hives just thinking about it. With removable drives I can go from one OS to another in around ten seconds at shutdown.

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