problem with Sony VAIO boot loader options
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1564399/problem-with-sony-vaio-boot-loader-optionsI messed up here. I had an old Sony Vaio that I wanted to give to a friend. Replaced the HDD with an SDD and was using a USB boot of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The USB boot looked great but even after going thru the install I could not get this older laptop (2009 or so) to automatically boot. I eventually installed grub 2.2 and (apologies here) I believe it was installed in the MBR as it always comes up first. The configuration I used at the start had the linux partition set at ro (readonly) and now that is all that ever comes up. I understand that during boot the root partition is RO but it is also supposed to switch to RW and it never does. I did boot into recovery and do a fsck -y but that did not change anything. the only way I get this installation to work is if during boot I edit the GRUB boot settings from RO to RW and then things work well. I have checked /boot/grub, I have mounted /dev/sda1 (everything else is on sda2) but none of those files appear to show this boot setting. When I am in grub 2.2 during startup I can see the "ro" on the linux line. I have to change it to "rw" to make things work. Guidance is appreciated. I feel so stupid here. Thanks in advance.













