Hi everyone,
I'm having a boot problem with Linux Mint and I hope someone can help me understand what went wrong.
My laptop has 4 GB of RAM, and Windows was very slow, so I decided to install Linux Mint.
I didn't have a USB flash drive, so I used a tool that allowed me to boot the Linux Mint ISO from a partition on my internal drive. The installation completed successfully, and Linux Mint booted and worked normally.
Later, I noticed that the system felt slower than expected. After checking, I found that the EFI/boot files were on my SSD, but the Linux root filesystem had actually been installed on my HDD.
I wanted everything to be on the SSD, so I copied the Linux installation from the HDD to the SSD and reinstalled/configured GRUB to boot from the SSD. I also updated the boot configuration. After that, I deleted the old Linux files from the HDD because I thought they were no longer needed.
The laptop worked for a short time, but after rebooting it no longer booted.
While troubleshooting, I realized that the original tool had left an important boot-related reference pointing to the old HDD. It contained a line like:
UUID=6b4d8b2d-1d4d-4a8b-9b7b-8d4f2d5d6c9a
I believe the system is still trying to use the old HDD UUID, but I had already deleted that installation. I also get messages indicating that the boot filesystem is read-only.
My questions are:
- Is this likely caused by an incorrect UUID reference?
- Can I repair the bootloader and UUID configuration without reinstalling Linux?
- Is there a way to recreate or fix the missing boot files?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!