What are the options on the boot screen?

[Tombar]

I originally had 4, now more. What are they all for?

Also the 3 things at the bottom - what are they and how do I select them?

[Tombar]

[swarfendor437]

Looking at the screenshot, it almost appears to me like you have installed Zorin ... twice!

[Ponce-De-Leon]

It seems that the GRUB detects 2 installed Zorin Versions. You had this secondary Drive:

Secondary HD layout

Hi. On my 2 Tb secondary HD, I have this [Screenshot from 2025-02-01 08-55-52] Part 1 Microsoft Reserved 134 Mb Part 2 Basic Data NTFS 467 Gb Part 3 Basic Data NTFS 467 Gb Part 4 Linux 1 Mb Part 5 EFI System FAT 538 Mb Part 6 Linux file system 1TB Is this normal and what should I do about it? Timeshift seems to be using Part 6, though I have a suspicion that DejaDup refuses to use it Part 6 is presumably the phantom 1 Gb drive I keep coming across?

Do You have it built-in now? If yes, could the Linux Partition on it be Zorin? for it would speak that on the 2nd entry stands a Path in the Brackets.

Beneath that: The zorin Entries are for starting Zorin of Course. The ''Advanced Options'' are for choosing a different Kernel for Example. The memtest Entries are for testing RAM.

The 3 Things at the bottom:
Left: That is the Enter Key. When an Option is chosen and You click enter the Entry will start.
Middle: The E Key should open the BIOS if I remember right.
Right: The C Key open a comand Line Interface.

[StarTreker]

I concur!

I have 2 different versions of Zorin OS installed personally. I have Zorin OS Pro (Gnome) on 1-NVME drive, and I have Zorin OS Pro Lite, (XFCE) on a 2nd NVME drive.

When you have 2-different Zorin OS installations, that is how it will appear in the list. So, with that said, I can confirm that much, and it appears perfectly normal to me.

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[j_luz]

Can you click on either Zorin and both will start up (not at the same time of course but each in their turn when you start from them) and it's a different copy of Zorin?

[Tombar]

@Ponce-De-Leon

The 3 Things at the bottom:
Left: That is the Enter Key. When an Option is chosen and You click enter the Entry will start.
Middle: The E Key should open the BIOS if I remember right.
Right: The C Key open a comand Line Interface.

How do you select them?

[Tombar]

@StarTreker

When you have 2-different Zorin OS installations

I originally only had the first part with three options and haven't reinstalled Zorin since then

[Tombar]

@j_luz

Can you click on either Zorin and both will start up (not at the same time of course but each in their turn when you start from them) and it's a different copy of Zorin?

Selecting the second one gives me a form of Zorin between the basic desktop and my full backup. I seem to remember I got to a similar desktop once before by choosing one of options 2-4 to see what they did
Any idea how to get rid of them?

[Ponce-De-Leon]

@Tombar

How do you select them?

You have to press the Key on Your Keyboard.

[Tombar]

Thought I'd tried that, but clearly not hard enough. Anyway, nothing of any use to a neewbie there

[swarfendor437]

They meant when you see GRUB menu appear, use the down arrow key on your keyboard to select the option you want to boot into. If you know which one you want to leave out, you need to edit GRUB and comment out the respective entry/ies by adding # at the start of each entry.