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Lesson I also learned when I started out with Linux… don’t fuck with grub unless you really understand what you’re doing! Borking grub is a right of passage imo.
I’m not sure how to fix your issue (I gave up on dual booting and just have windows in a virtual machine, so Windows doesn’t mess up grub).
I always keep backups of the working grub config in case I need to restore. Just boot into a version of Linux on a usb key and copy the working config.
oh yes, did it multiple times... Now I'm using MX Linux, if I break something, I boot on the USB disk and click on the "repair boot", and tada! it works again. But yeah I always keep a backup of my EFI in case of too.
Grub is still better than LILO :)
I'll have to give this another try tomorrow when I'm more awake. I probably should have just asked here when I had grub issues in the first place.
So I guess this is what the guides are saying, but I seem to get stuck on the installation step with this error
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot
. Hopefully I understand it better once i'm more awake. Thank you though!You need to turn off secure boot in your bios maybe
Turning off secure boot in bios did the trick for me when I setup Mint with Windows 11.