I’m currently using Ubuntu and I want try a different distro but so far the only one I’ve tried was Porteus but I had an issue where Porteus wouldn’t boot if it was installed on top of ext4 but would boot fine if it was installed on top of fat32, which is also another potential problem because Porteus requires a save file for persistence when using Windows filesystems. If there is a problem where my computer can’t boot with an ext4 filesystem, Ubuntu doesn’t have this problem because sda1/2/3 all use a different filesystem.
If I’m correct on this, would I be better off trying Porteus on ext3/2 and hoping it works or just use it with fat32 and have a separate partition formatted for ext4 to serve the same purpose as sda3 in Ubuntu and possibly store the save file (if I have the correct understanding of how save files work).
Also, I would just use NTFS but not only have I heard that it has issues with Linux, I’ve had issues using it with Linux, so I’m using fat32 for stability.
Well… Linux Mint is working fine but Ubuntu isn’t anymore and it’s giving me the same issue as Bunsen. When I installed Mint, it stated that it was supposed to give me the option choose which one it would boot into but I’m not getting that option and it just boots into Mint. I can still see the files, so I know they aren’t lost. Looking at GParted, it seems that Mint didn’t make it’s own copy of grub and is just using the one Ubuntu made in sda1.
I’m making this very hastily, I’m just using a probably very outdated copy of Firefox to write this comment. I wasn’t even ready to switch to a different distro yet, I just wanted to test it to make sure it worked. Unless I can fix it somehow, I’m going to have to copy the files I want to keep from Ubuntu (assuming I can still use them) and then install Mint on the the same drive as Ubuntu because my external hard drive is slower than the internal one.
Maybe the solutions here might help https://superuser.com/questions/869486/grub-from-ubuntu-and-grub-from-mint
Ok I can try that.
By the way, the previous comment was for someone else. You replied after someone else that I was talking to did but I was in too much of a hurry and accidentally sent it to you.
Well, I wanted to try that but for some reason, my computer seems to be dying. After I flashed the repair disc onto my USB thumb drive, my computer became really slow when I restarted it and I can’t boot into any OS now. So I’m actually typing this comment on my phone.
I hope that when I wake up in the morning, I can fix it. If I can’t, I’ll have to switch back to using Windows on my old computer until I can afford a new one. I don’t have another computer I can run Linux properly on.