Linux Mint Boot

[mintgreensheen]

I had linux mint installed on a laptop with a fully encrypted drive but wanted to install kali and tails alongside it and have a refind boot screen. Seemed a cool idea.

At some point during the initial scratching of my head on where to begin I seem to have broken my laptop. Already. Off to a good start.

I think it was probably caused by my looking in gparted or disks, but i don't think i actually made any changes. Anyway. I figured whatever, deleted all the partitions, created new ones, installed mint again. Yet the problem seems to have remained.
I can boot to a usb copy but not one that is installed on the HD.

The message I get on the laptop is something like

"[ 0.109868] DMAR-IR: [Firmware Bug]: ioapic 0 has no mapping iommu, interrupt remapping will be disabled
[ 2.928851] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No caching mode page found
[ 2.928888] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

Busybox v.1.30....."

I'm clearly in over my head, but that's half the point, I guess.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

 

[wizardfromoz]

G'day @mintgreensheen (I like that) and welcome to linux.org

I may or may not have some help, so by all means entertain help from others.

Is the rEFInd a deal-breaker? If not, I would look to reinstall with Grub and see how you do.

If Yes, do you have access to a Menu, do you have access to the boot parameters?

With a Grub Menu, you can highlight the entry for Mint and press 'e' for edit, and look at them.

I have not the experience with rEFInd to tell you what it has.

Cheers

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz