So I’ve been a Linux user for about two months, which makes me basically a beginner to all this stuff, so I feel like my issue is probably really silly but, hey, that means one of you guys probably knows how to fix it.
A couple of months ago, I installed Linux Mint alongside my Windows 8.1 without any issues, the dual-boot worked perfectly. Mint didn’t seem to agree with my computer very much though, the keyboard and touchpad would often stop working out of nowhere, it was really annoying, so I decided to switch distros, and I picked openSUSE.
Now, from what I understood, all I had to do to switch from one Linux distro to another was tell the installator to format the same root partition I had already established but to mount from the home and swap partitions without deleting anything. The OpenSUSE installator seemed to understand that all on it’s own, so that part was pretty easy…except that now it won’t boot.
To be honest the whole UEFI/Legacy booting thing always confused me, but I managed to get dual boot working quite nicely the first time around. Now, when I turn on the computer, it goes straight to grub. If I hold F12 while it’s booting and go into booting options, I’m able to see, under UEFI booting, that there are still three options: two of them are named ubuntu (which is a little strange considering I’ve never actually installed ubuntu but I assume this happens because Mint is one of Ubuntu’s children) and the third is windows boot manager. I was pretty happy to find Windows still works if I select that option, which is where I’m typing from right now, but either one of the ubuntu options only takes me to grub. In conclusion, Windows is here as long as I hold F12 while booting, Mint is gone, and openSUSE is literally nowhere to be found. Does anybody know what caused this/how to fix it?
Thanks very much, anyway!