<div dir="ltr"><div>I have been struggling, both desperately and unsuccessfully, to install
Mint on a relatively new Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. I have installed a new
mSata ssd into the laptop. I have partitioned it correctly. Windows 8.1 is
working perfeclty from one of the partitions. A new fresh version of Mint
is installed in the other partition. However I cannot get it to boot into Mint. <br><br>I believe that I am very close to having the project
done....yet I still cannot get the machine to boot into the Linux OS.
Need GRUB bootloader, need to disable something? Arggghhhh. <br><br><div>A little background here. I am a novice nooby struggling to learn while I am doing it. I am enjoying the trip but it has now gotten to the
point of frustration and the fun factor is rapidly diminishing.
Particularly since I am not able to use the Lenovo Yoga and/or learn more about Mint. </div><div><br></div><div>I
am a Mac OS user and have been since .... well the beginning back in
'84. I am also fairly competent, at least to some degree, with Android.
I am not very fluent in Windows at all. The goal is to keep 8.1 on
the Yoga jsut in case I need it for something down the road (or to migrate to
Windows 10 or whatever). I would like to become proficient enough in Ubuntu/Mint to wean myself off of OS X. </div><div><br></div><div>I
installed Mint (and Ubuntu) on an Asus laptop about two months ago and
sampled each. Decided I liked Mint. But it was the sole OS on the
machine....no Windows. So booting into another OS was not part of the equation. And that apparently made things a helluva lot easier during the install. </div><div><br>As
I mentioned I think (almost absolutely positive) that I have Mint
correctly installed. It is there. But the problem lies in the boot. I
think I have done most of the hard (ie labor intensive if I can even
use that term) work already. And what remains to be done should be
(fingers crossed) pretty simple.<br><br></div><div>Any suggestions? Recommendations. Anyone willing to meet me at a coffeehouse, restaurant etc to help nail this down? I would be more than wiling to buy coffee, a sandwich, a Lamborghini Aventador....only kidding on the Lambo.<br><br></div>TIA<br><br></div><div>Denny<br></div><div><br></div>Denny<br></div>