hello everyone,

I used to run Linux with a dual booting setup on my Lenovo t530 laptop. Since then I updated my windows to 10 and kinda forgot about the half of my DD being formated for Linux.

Now, I'm trying to get back into it. So I'd like to restore grub to my MBR. I've tried using unetbootin and Lili to create the live USB. I tried downloading an .iso myself. I tried downloading it through each respective program. Nothing works.

The live usb will boot then give my a message error about not being able to read the disk or something similar.

I figured this might have to do with UEFI and secure boot. I disabled every option related to that in my BIOS. Still wont boot with multiples different distrib.

I honestly have no clue how to go about this from here. Ive tried everything I could think of.

Please help me. I miss my penguin 😭

here is my bios setup in pictures https://imgur.com/a/2tfyYFM

Are you booting to a hard drive order choice where the USB is above the internal hard drive choice?
Sometimes there are a few issues with W10 where is sort of locks the system but since you can get to bios I don't think that is the case.

Did you make this usb flash an uefi secure boot?

Please don't add to your posts, edit them instead. It keeps the thread a zero reply so more people might see it.

My live USB always boot to GRUB but fail from there. I can choose them no problem from the temporary boot order menu. I honestly don't see how that could be related to win10, but Im really running out of idea. I tried multiple different USB key too. Each distro gave me a slightly different error message. I tried Ubuntu, Arch and Manjaro

I'm not sure what you mean about making my USB a UEFI secure boot. Is there a particular procedure I must follow?

I've been feeling like I'm missing something obvious since I've been out of the loop for a couple of years. I've used Linux for a decade before that. Even managed to get a working version of LFS going. It might be an hardware issue from my old laptop. How knows...

This is really frustrating ��

Hey, so still no clue what the problem was, but I downloaded Ubuntu 20.04 and flashed it with balena etcher. That worked. Currently installing it ��

OK, thanks for the update and solution.

Could be you managed to get the one uboot on it, then failure on the uboot or some such.

I really would want to see the boot seq from the serial port. You connect a USB/TTL adapter and use screen or minicom to interact with the console.

More than once I have seen an obvious problem that way such that ALL of my boards have permanently installed adapters.

Or just try another card to say you did.

How about Rufus?It is still good in my impression.