Hello, i'm concerned about why i can't run Zorin OS 18 on my pc. When i finish the installation and allocate some space on my second 4 tb drive, where i have games, after the installation, Zorin OS doesn't kick in, but windows does. I checked in the boot, and there isn't a second drive with Zorin OS to run, but only Windows. I'm run out of options, because i wanted have both worlds on two seperate drivers. On the first 1 tb drive, i have Windows 10 and documents. On the other drive, i have games and i wanted to install Zorin OS there too, so i can migrate documents from Windows to Zorin OS if i felt good with this distro.
I have allocated the space manually too. I have disabled the encryption thing on Windows, but nothing works. What have i done wrong?
OK so the things you have to do in the BIOS is disable Fast Boot, Secure Boot, and if you have TPM enabled, try to disable it. If your machine has aTPM 2.0 chip, this would show up as TPM discrete under fTPM. If possible change this to Firmware (which is what I have on my Asus mobo which put TPM on following a BIOS update).
The other thing you will have to do is go to Power Settings and show hidden settings regarding buttons and uncheck them. This is because since Windows 8.x the hard drive never fully powers down to enable quicker boit times. Keep us posted.
Do You have in BIOS in the Boot Order an ''ubuntu'' entry? If yes, set it on Position 1. How did You installed Zorin? With the ''Install Zorin alongside Windows'' Option or the ''Something else'' Option. If it is the las one: How did You set up the Partitions?
We have been seeing this more and more lately. The frequency has increased drastically.
Looking into it, it looks like Firmware and Windows 11 are getting more aggressive about silently deleting and ignoring Linux boot entries.
It would make sense- they would fight back against the exodus.
The workaround is to shift the bootloader outside of NVRAM: