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Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6
Kernel: 5.15.0-84-generic x86_64
Intel Core i5-3570

During the last kernel update I believe there was some glitch that...

Thanks to both. I am afraid I am a total beginner and all those pages are much deeper than I can understand. The most often mentioned cause for slow boot is misconfigured fstab but I have no idea...

Very slow boot. Over 3 minutes

OS: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa -- base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
CPU: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits
RAM: 8GB
SSD: CT240BX500SSD1 size: 223.57 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s...

I managed to repair the issue using Boot-Repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
I am now booting from the SSD, as I wanted.

This is a legacy, non-EFI, HP Compaq dc7900. Repeat: Legacy, no EFI.

It was originally running Linux Mint 19 from a 1 TB HDD. Then I installed LM20 on an SSD and it worked fine booting LM20 from...

I booted up again several times and now the mountpoint is always "/" as it should be.

I guess it was some glitch or it was doing a backup or something.

Anyway, I consider the boot issue...

I did not know the lsblk command . Now that I use it I can see the correlation between EFI list and what is mounted. Thanks.

NAME MOUNTPOINT LABEL SIZE FSTYPE ...

It seems when I installed LM20 the install created the ESP Fat32 but left it empty and used the one on the old HDD but the partition was there and just copying the EFI folder and files was enough.
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Thank you so much for your detailed post.

I took that phrase which seemed to me the best course of action and it turned out to be immensely simpler than I had ever imagined.

As I said the EFI...

Just a few days ago I was in the same situation and spent a lot of time until I finally succeeded. In a few days I will have to do it again. I thought I would remember what steps I did but my memory...

First time poster and very newbie so please forgive my ignorance and mistakes.

I was using Linux Mint 18 installed on a 500GB HDD and recently installed LM20 on a 240GB SSD.

Inspecting the...