Somebody tie my hands, please! Grub problem again [Solved]

[andymx]

Good news. Well done. Freedom is addictive :) Don't be afraid to experiment, I say. As long as you have backups of course. That's the beauty of linux. And it's only natural to make mistakes since we've never been able to configure this much under Windows, so it's all new (fun & addictive).

You can try disabling fast start ( or fast boot) in windows. You just unitck a box in windows power options:

https://www.howtogeek.com/856514/how-to ... indows-10/

It'll make sure windows 'releases it's hold' on the boot loader

I totally agree about the need to have backups. I try to take backups frequently. Unfortunately deleting the entry from the boot screen did not have an undo function and I didn't have a backup for it.
I was hopeful that the problem may be related to fast start, but I checked and I had it already disabled. So, I'm back to square one.

[ghunter]

Hi

Not sure if you realize but restart in Windows does a full shutdown then a cold start.
Shutdown in Windows is not a true shutdown. And trying to go to linux is I think your issue.

I suggest you try this next time to boot into Windows please
get a run box

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shutdown -s -t 00

In case the forum makes it hard to tell fonts etc...its shutdown space hypen s space hyphen t space zerozero

[andymx]

@ghunter Thanks, usually I'm trying to exit Windows and reboot to the GRUB menu. It doesn't always work this way. Most of the times Windows starts again instead of showing me the GRUB menu.