Linux mint boot order

If after installing Linux Mint in EFI mode, you are unable to boot due to a Secure Boot Violation , you can try one of the following solutions:

Restart the installation:
- Connect to the Internet before the installation
- Do not select Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 and other media .
Disable SecureBoot in the BIOS settings of your computer.

For examples of how to disable secure boot on various computers, read Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: Dealing with Secure Boot.

EFI boot order¶

If after installing Linux Mint in EFI mode, your computer skips the boot menu and boots straight into Windows (or another operating system), you probably have an issue with the boot order.

To modify the boot order:

Boot Linux Mint in live mode (with your USB stick or DVD).
Open a terminal.
Type sudo efibootmgr .

This command lists the available boot options and the boot order.

In the screenshot above, there are three boot options:

ubuntu at 0000
linuxmint at 0001
Mac OS X at 0081

The boot order is 0081 . This indicates that the computer only tries to boot Mac OS and not Linux Mint.

For technical reasons Linux Mint uses ubuntu as its EFI boot name.

To fix the boot order, type sudo efibootmgr —bootorder XXXX,YYYY (where XXXX and YYYY are the operating system boot options you want to boot).

In the screenshot above, sudo efibootmgr —bootorder 0000,0081 instructs the computer to first try to boot Linux Mint ( ubuntu being the EFI boot name for Linux Mint), and then Mac OS.

In the screenshot above 0000 is the first boot option so the computer boots on the Linux Mint grub menu. If grub fails (or if it is dismissed with the exit command), the computer follows the boot order and then tries to boot 0081 , which corresponds to Mac OS.

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How To Change The GRUB Boot Order Or Default Boot Entry In Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Or Fedora With Grub Customizer

Those dual booting, either multiple Linux distributions, or Linux and Windows, might prefer changing the default GRUB boot order, or the default boot entry, so the operating system that’s most used is first / selected by default.

GRUB 2 boot menu

Grub Customizer, a graphical (Gtk) interface to configure some GRUB 2 settings, can be used to change the default GRUB boot menu order without having to manually edit configuration files, like /etc/default/grub .

To change the GRUB boot menu order using Grub Customizer, go to the List configuration tab, select a boot menu entry and use the up and down arrows to change its position:

Instead of changing the GRUB boot menu order, you can also change the default OS (default selected boot entry). This way, even if an entry is shown as last in the GRUB boot list, it will be automatically selected when the GRUB boot menu loads. The option to change the default GRUB boot entry is available in Grub Customizer on the General settings tab — choose the default boot entry from the predefined dropdown:

After making any changes to your GRUB boot menu with Grub Customizer, remember to click the Save button to save the configuration and generate a new grub.cfg .

Grub Customizer ca be installed from the repositories on some Linux distributions, including Debian and Fedora. For Ubuntu, it can be installed from a PPA for Ubuntu versions older than 19.04 (it’s in the repositories for Ubuntu 19.04, 19.10, 20.04 and 20.10). Install Grub Customizer:

Fedora:

Debian sid, buster or stretch (backports):

Ubuntu 18.10, 18.04, 16.04 and 14.04 / Linux Mint 19, 18 and 17:

You can also download (scroll down for the latest version) the Grub Customizer DEB package without adding the PPA.

Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), 19.10 (Eoan Ermine), 20.04 (Focal Fossa) / Linux Mint 20, or Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):

On other distributions, look up Grub Customizer in your package manager, or see the instructions for building the application from source.

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How to Change Boot Order

Post by cdog » Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:38 pm

I recently got rid of Windows 10 and installed Mint on my PC. I really like where Linux has gotten to. I’m having a great time with it. One thing however, I can no longer change the boot order in my bios now. I wan’t to try out a couple other distros (live) and can’t figure out how to make my computer boot from USB anymore. When I get into the BIOS it shows what the boot order is (22 drives now?) but nothing happens anymore when I hit enter on the first boot drive.

Thanks for the help.

Re: How to Change Boot Order

Post by Neil Edmond » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:03 pm

Welcome to the Linux Mint forums! Sad to read you are having trouble with your computer. Doesn’t matter what OS you have installed. it has no control over the system BIOS, but if we are going to help we will need to know exactly what model computer we are dealing with, so someone with similar hardware can tell you the method of changing boot order in your BIOS.

That said, a lot of BIOS won’t show a boot device unless it is connect. So, try plugging the USB device in, and then access the BIOS. Is the USB now listed as a boot option? An alternative to entering the BIOS directly, many systems have a boot menu key of some sort (usually an F# key, mine is F12), that can be pressed during boot to choose from available devices, without making a permanent change in the BIOS.

Re: How to Change Boot Order

Post by Cosmo. » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:17 pm

Re: How to Change Boot Order

Post by cdog » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:18 pm

Re: How to Change Boot Order

Post by Tomgin5 » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:19 pm

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How To Change GRUB boot order in Linux Mint / Ubuntu

May 23, 2017 Author: Angelos Kyritsis 6

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default bootloader for Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and a host of Linux Distributions. When we are dual-booting with Windows, Linux sets itself as the default boot choice. If we prefer Windows to be the default, though, or even some other Linux distribution or operating system, it’s quick easy to change the GRUB boot order.

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We have prepared this guide in Linux Mint 18.1 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It should also work for earlier and later versions, and for most distributions based on Ubuntu/Debian.

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How to change the GRUB boot order with GRUB Customizer

GRUB Customizer is an easy, GUI way to change the GRUB boot order, without having to edit system files manually.

To install it, we first need to add the repository. We open a terminal with ctrl+alt+T and type:

If you ‘re new to Linux, remember that when we enter the password within the terminal, nothing will show as we type, no stars or dots. We just type the password and submit it with Enter. If you want to change this default behavior, check out our guide:

After the repository is successfully imported, we type:

At the end of the installation, we start GRUB customizer with:

After that, it’s only a matter of selecting the OS we prefer, and clicking the upwards arrow until it gets to the top.

Once on the top, we save the configuration.

On the next reboot, Windows is now the default operating system in the GRUB boot order.

Change GRUB boot order manually

If for whatever reason we can’t or don’t want to install GRUB customizer, we can change the GRUB boot order manually.

In fact, it is easier than installing GRUB customizer — but with a higher chance of breaking something in our system. So, we need to be extra careful with our every move.

Linux Mint

The Grub Customizer process was identical for Linux Mint and Ubuntu. However, this manual way has a small but important difference between the two distributions.

First, we open a terminal with ctrl+alt+T, and we type:

Nemo is the file manager for Linux Mint. The equivalent of the Windows Explorer.

This will seem to open our home folder. The difference is that we opened the home folder as root. Running the file manager as root on Linux can be extremely dangerous; nothing will stop us from deleting an essential system file or folder by mistake.

On this home folder, we press ctrl+L and type /etc/grub.d/

The file 10_linux is the current default in the GRUB boot order. 30_os-prober_proxy is Windows.

We only need to rename 30_os-prober_proxy.

After that, we close Nemo, but not the terminal window. We press Ctrl+c to get the cursor back.

To apply the changes, we type:

On next reboot, Windows will be the default choice.

Ubuntu

The manual procedure to change the GRUB boot order on Ubuntu is almost identical with the one for Linux Mint. The only difference is that instead of «sudo nemo» we need to run:

The reason for this is because Ubuntu’s file manager is Nautilus, and not Nemo. After that, we navigate to /etc/grub.d/ and follow the exact same steps.

Did you have any problem changing the GRUB boot order?

If neither of the above ways worked for you, and you had any problem with changing the GRUB boot order, leave us a comment.

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