Have you ever installed Linux manually before? Creating each partition yourself? If so, how many partitions was there supposed to be?
Because I think I only made three. Root, home, and swap. But I found another guide that also has a boot partition, which was never talked about in the guide I read. Which means I did not make a boot partition manually, if that makes any difference.
Edit: rereading the guide I used, I may have missed a part. I can't remember if I changed that drop down menu thing.
"8. You can now review the partitions you created before you continue with the installation. Also, you have the option here to select where to install the boot loader. The default is fine if you have no other operating system installed or if you want Linux Mint to ask you at boot time which operating system to boot.
If you want another operating system to ask you at boot time which operating system to boot, then change the device for boot loader installation to your root partition (/dev/sda1 in this example). Note that without additional software, Windows isn't able to ask you which operating system to boot."
So yeah, it's my fault. Do I have to reinstall or can that be changed with the terminal?
I have installed it manually, currently running arch. The number of partitions doesn't actually matter, you can have as few as just one root partition, or a partition for root, home, boot, swap, etc etc. You may be able to change it with the terminal by installing grub to your boot partition, but it may be better to reinstall and let the installer handle it for you.
It should be, but it seems like grub isn't being called on boot for some reason.
Have you ever installed Linux manually before? Creating each partition yourself? If so, how many partitions was there supposed to be?
Because I think I only made three. Root, home, and swap. But I found another guide that also has a boot partition, which was never talked about in the guide I read. Which means I did not make a boot partition manually, if that makes any difference.
Edit: rereading the guide I used, I may have missed a part. I can't remember if I changed that drop down menu thing.
"8. You can now review the partitions you created before you continue with the installation. Also, you have the option here to select where to install the boot loader. The default is fine if you have no other operating system installed or if you want Linux Mint to ask you at boot time which operating system to boot.
If you want another operating system to ask you at boot time which operating system to boot, then change the device for boot loader installation to your root partition (/dev/sda1 in this example). Note that without additional software, Windows isn't able to ask you which operating system to boot."
So yeah, it's my fault. Do I have to reinstall or can that be changed with the terminal?
I have installed it manually, currently running arch. The number of partitions doesn't actually matter, you can have as few as just one root partition, or a partition for root, home, boot, swap, etc etc. You may be able to change it with the terminal by installing grub to your boot partition, but it may be better to reinstall and let the installer handle it for you.
Alright then, guess I'll reinstall it just to be safe. Sorry about all the confusion.
It works now. Looks like I never set it to boot through grub during installation. Sorry for the trouble.
No problem at all. Sorry my replies slowed down to the end, been working most of the weekend. Glad you got it working though! :) hope you enjoy linux!