Sierra048
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Thanks everyone.
I'm getting so frustrated. I successfully created the bootable USB drive to load Linux Mint in what I believe they call live mode. I decided to install it in dual mode with Windows. There was an excellent step-by-step article that showed how to do it for a Windows 8.1 computer. Everything went smooth, even shrinking the C: drive and creating the swap, home and root partitions. Installation was complete. I was supposed to reboot and pick my choice between Mint and Windows. That didn't happen. I tried multiple time and it went staight to Windows. So now it appears I have Mint installed but can't run it. More google searches later it appears there is a problem with the "boot order". I read another good article by someone who had the same computer, an HP Pavillion, with the same problem (this article was on the Mint Forum). This person finally was able to get hers going but it was so confusing to me that I got a headache. She talked about going to a terminal and renaming files, downloading another program to another USB drive and running that while doing something else, etc... They pretty much said the issues are that Windows is so stingy about letting another operating system work along side it. They want Windows to be the ONLY operating system. They make it difficult. Maybe partially HP related as well. I really like Mint but I don't want to have to load it from a USB drive everytime and reset the settings everytime as well.
Can anyone offer a simpler solution? Barring that, would this problem not exist if I just loaded Linux Mint as the only program on my computer and just got rid of Windows. I'm really beginning to not like Windows more and more.
I'm getting so frustrated. I successfully created the bootable USB drive to load Linux Mint in what I believe they call live mode. I decided to install it in dual mode with Windows. There was an excellent step-by-step article that showed how to do it for a Windows 8.1 computer. Everything went smooth, even shrinking the C: drive and creating the swap, home and root partitions. Installation was complete. I was supposed to reboot and pick my choice between Mint and Windows. That didn't happen. I tried multiple time and it went staight to Windows. So now it appears I have Mint installed but can't run it. More google searches later it appears there is a problem with the "boot order". I read another good article by someone who had the same computer, an HP Pavillion, with the same problem (this article was on the Mint Forum). This person finally was able to get hers going but it was so confusing to me that I got a headache. She talked about going to a terminal and renaming files, downloading another program to another USB drive and running that while doing something else, etc... They pretty much said the issues are that Windows is so stingy about letting another operating system work along side it. They want Windows to be the ONLY operating system. They make it difficult. Maybe partially HP related as well. I really like Mint but I don't want to have to load it from a USB drive everytime and reset the settings everytime as well.
Can anyone offer a simpler solution? Barring that, would this problem not exist if I just loaded Linux Mint as the only program on my computer and just got rid of Windows. I'm really beginning to not like Windows more and more.
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