Holy cats. I picked up a Lenovo ThinkPad e455 a couple weeks ago for 40 bucks. Send me $40 and shipping and I’ll send you a dual boot Windows 10 and endeavor computer right to your door in perfect working order so you don’t need to continue down the path you’re on.
Wow, what thread!
The problem starts right from the beginning of the post and hasn’t changed. Day 8 and I’m not sure where things stand but the problem in my opinion is that the live USB was created improperly and is only booting in UEFI mode. I already suggested create a new live USB on Linux with popsicle.
For the love of things big and small…EndeavourOS
Sounds like my wife.
Thanks all you guys for all the helps and Thanks @ringo for the encouragement. Finally got it demistified.
I have to admit, i am the fault of all these troubles… confusing you guys…
Due to my ignorant of EFI can be in CSM in disguise… causes all these mess.
Sorry took so long, as i was hammering hours of info and guides all over the net. Just like what you guys keeps telling me… do research then ask…
It was from asking here, Ringo and other told me i have EFI purely because i hav CSM.
From there, i got a slight clue where it should headed. Did trials upon trials… and got it.
Indeed as what @skaffen said, it is just a simple 15mins thing… but i was tricked by the CSM and i never did grub before…hence a lot of time consumed.
Sorry for wasting your time. And sorry for all the screenshot. I thought i presented all info (missing none), so that you guys won’t be turning around like merry go round… and misunderstood by something i said… hence i presented the photos comprehensively… Never knew you guys does not like photos. sorry.
To summarized it up.
The Liveusb is ok all the time (although it is weird in prompting me of EFI mode when installing and EFI in boot menu created by it).
Ever since i did the installation as photo posted above, but can’t make it work properly.
I was about to give Tardy’s suggestion to do a “install alongside”, hoping it will auto detect…and wont’ ruin win os … then i saw grub commands taught byChrist Titus.
I just follow along the grub commands … as he teaches… wonderful teacher
#grub-mkconfig -o
*it detected win7 os and added win7 os into grub menu
#grub-install /dev/sda
*install grub into boot sector and over write win7 boot menu
#reboot.
All done! ACP! Less than 15 minutes… lol
Great can sleep now. Once again…thanks. Appreciate all the inputs. a bumpy ride, but learnt a lot… Thanks Tardy You were right. Shld install it to sda… (due to my fear i didn’t listen to you…sorry )
And you as of yet cannot use the forum quote properly. Last time I mentioned this you were confused. Do you see the difference?
@andrew_ysk - thank you for marking my post as the solution, but I was simply reiterating what @leon had posted earlier:
You should really mark that post as the solutiuon.
Both you and Leon was right. I was back then scare because MBR sounds dangerous to be mess around…
Windows 7 - is BIOS/MBR only and the Windows installer will always create an MBR filesystem.
Windows uses the available MBR primary partitions (4) where the last must be an Extended partition - and as such - Linux users are often forced into installing into a partition held in the extended MBR partition and a boot loader will not work when installed to a such partition.
When reusing a disk with an existing Windows7 installation it is pertinent that you install the boot loader to the disk itself - and not a partition.
BIOS/MBR install boot loader to the first disk
Windows 7 and BIOS/GPT works - but as it requires a pre-configured GPT disk - you are forced to re-partition the disk.
This is done best using a Live Linux ISO. Ensure with an un-formatted partition (4-32M) flagged as bios-boot 0xEF02 - before installing Windows - do not remove this partition in the Windows installer partition tool.
When using this approach - the boot loader is installed to the un-formatted partition.
BIOS/GPT install bootloader to bios-boot partition (partition type uuid 0xEF02)
You can give up now. The user is suspended because they started another account to begin asking questions again and the second account banned.
To be honest I remember them from the Manjaro forum completely wasting everyone’s time asking questions on circles for days on end. Creating help topic after help topic and turning the help section into a mess as they over lapped help from one to the next.
They will literally never figured this out. I’m almost 100% sure they just want to be heard and to irritate people and go somewhere long enough to get banned.
(Confirmed) Rumor has it, they’ve started MANY MANY help threads across the expanse of Linux forums asking questions. If they come back, it’s best to just let the questions die on the vine. Help vampire confirmed.