I have a Dell Optiplex with 32GB RAM and a Kingston 240GB SSD . It also is set up to boot in legacy mode. Recently I did a fresh install on the Kingston SSD. Sometimes it gets stuck after the grub menu. I tell it to boot into Kubuntu 24.04.1. The grub menu goes away then nothing. The only thing to do is switch it off and try again. Sometimes it boots up right away. Sometimes I have to turn the computer off and on again. It also happened with a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.02.1. Any idea what to do about it? Thanks.
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So you have one drive, the SSD. Set up with GRUB2 in Legacy mode. So GRUB2 is installed to the MBR of /dev/sda.
You can somehow finally boot into your Kubuntu.
When you get there, open Konsole (K start > System > Konsole) and run these commands, one after the other, to re-install GRUB2:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
then when that finishes
sudo update-grub.
See if that works.
Of course, I assume your BIOS is set to boot in legacy mode because you've been doing it, right?
Other option that seems to help a lot of people is to use Boot-Repair to diagnose and then to fix things (it usually re-installs GRUB like we did with those commands):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
(Maybe when you installed the new Kubuntu, the installer routine didn't place your boot loader right.)An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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