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I decided to go with Linux mint for my laptop. After installing it alongside windows 10, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?

Link from boot repair: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/

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[–] ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It has three entries in gparted. "/dev/sda1" is "grub core.img" and is 1.00 MiB. "/dev/sda2" is fat32 and is 513 MiB and "/dev/sda3" is ext4 and is 237.97 GiB.

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ext4 would be normal for linux and windows is usually formatted as ntfs, there's nothing abnormal with the partitions if you were trying to do just mint, unless the install messed with something weird in the bios I can't imagine why it wouldn't boot if you erased the drive while installing mint only, the installation should select that partition to boot without you having to do anything extra