mint 20 efi boot partition quit booting

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 19:17, <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>
> this turned out to be the issue. Samsung has not made provision for a
> user upgradable BIOS

I do not believe that. I have not seen an x86 PC whose firmware can't
be updated since the 1980s.

Can you give me the _exact_ model number and I will look for you?

> so I went carefully through the settings and
> there
> was a switch to PREVENT UEFI booting. Toggled it and all is good

UEFI is a minefield. :-(

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