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This is what my disk looks like right now :

Windows 11 disk management

I have installed Windows 11 on the PC. I then decided to install Kali Linux to learn cybersecurity (please don't tell me "if you're asking this question, you shouldn't be installing Kali"). Everything was working fine, I could boot easily, no problem

But I also want to have a general purpose Linux, so I chose Linux Mint.

I downloaded the installer, launched it, it didn't leave me the choice to install GRUB or not (I didn't want to, I was pretty sure it was going to mess things up).

After restart, GRUB changed (the Kali theme is gone), Windows boots up fine, but neither Kali, nor Mint boot up : the output the well known error on Internet :

Kernel Panic, not syncing, cannot mount unknownblock(0,0) or something along those lines.

Other posts say to boot off an older kernel, but I don't have any option in Advanced Options, on recovery mode...

My system is CSM, my partitioning table MBR. I can select UEFI in the BIOS, but that just results in a simple insert disk into drive

Any ideas ? Thanks

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    Note that the standard advice isn't "you shouldn't be using Kali if you need to ask the question", it is "Kali is not a learning tool, so this will only make it much harder and more complicated for you to learn". Just saying. Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 13:52
  • Try booting off of a live installation medium (Mint's will do) and following the steps here: How can I fix/install/reinstall grub?. Does that sort it out? Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 13:54
  • @terdon thanks, i'll try that tonight and keep you informed Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 14:19
  • Hummm... Five primary partition with MBR? How? Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 15:14
  • @K-att- hum, no in fact, the first 3 are grouped in 1 logical partition, according to the live gparted when I installed Mint ; it's just Windows not showing them... Commented Mar 7, 2023 at 15:50

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