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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 Designare
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 5700 XT
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
You were right, for some reason Linux just dropped its own folder in the EFI folder for MacOS. (see screenshot using MiniTool Partition Wizard)This usually happens with Linux and even with Windows. It seems Linux has written its EFI bootloader into the EFI partition of your macOS SSD.
Fortunately, this problem is solvable, but you will need to find a way to mount the EFI partition of the macOS SSD. There are ways to do this in Windows and Linux, but you may have to Google for the answer.
An alternative approach is to connect your Bootable Backup Disk and press F12 at BIOS Splash Screen and boot from that disk. Then mount EFI partition from macOS.
Once the EFI partition is mounted (using either Windows, Linux, or macOS), please expand the EFI folder and post a screenshot or a photo. Based on that we can help you move files around to fix the problem.
Does the Linux SSD contain its own EFI partition?
I really don't care very much about Linux and I can just run it in a VM like I did before, so should I just delete the Ubuntu folder and try to reboot?
EDIT: I see the BOOT folder there too has yesterday's date from the Linux install. Is that important?