![]() If you do not remove it first UEFI will probably just add it back in. You need to do that first and then remove entry from UEFI boot menu. You should just be able to remove the clover folder in the efi partition. Other work arounds are better now.īefore doing anything, backup efi partition. Best to undo that and restore the actual Windows efi file to correct name. renamed file from grub menu using that file name. But then UEFI, and now grub2's os-prober finds the bootmgfw.efi file which then just loops back to grub. Then UEFI thinks it is booting Windows, but really boots grub. So it renames the Windows file and copies grub into the Microsoft boot folder & renames grub to have Windows name. That was its standard work around for UEFI that would only boot Windows. Use gparted and remove boot flag from sda2.ĭid you run Boot-Repair a while back. The actual definition of an efi partition is some very long GUID code, but boot flag is short cut to that assignment. With gparted you use the boot flag to make an efi partition. You have two efi partitions, while UEFI spec technically allows that, we have yet to see a system works with more than one efi partition per device or hard drive. We do not support Hackintosh, that is against forum rules. If you have not fully backed up Windows, do that first. Sept 2014 Fix being released for one drive installs, but mulitiple drive installs must use Something Else. Reinstall says overwrite Ubuntu but it also erases existing Windows or any other partitions. Post link to summary report.īoot Repair -Also handles LVM, GPT, separate /boot and UEFI dual boot.:ĭo not reinstall Ubuntu unless you do use Something Else or manual install. May be best to see all the details of where you are at first. This only works if drive is gpt and you already have an efi partition. The normal not found is usually trying to boot Ubuntu in one mode and it really is installed in the other mode.īoot-Repair can convert a BIOS install of Ubuntu to UEFI by uninstalling grub-pc(BIOS) and installing grub-efi(UEFI) and changing a few settings. Lilo boot loader (not full lilo) works just like the Windows boot loader in the MBR for BIOS boot, you do not want anything BIOS based, so you do not want lilo. You may be able to boot Ubuntu in BIOS mode but may have to go into UEFI and turn on/off CSM or UEFI settings. And if Windows is UEFI then Ubuntu really should be UEFI. Windows only boots from a gpt partitioned drive with UEFI, or if UEFI booting must have gpt partitioning.īut Ubuntu will install to gpt partition drive in either UEFI or BIOS boot mode.īut to dual boot easily you should have all systems in the same boot mode. So all the old BIOS with MBR instructions really do not apply. You now have the added complication of UEFI with gpt partitioning.Īll new systems with Windows 8 pre-installed are UEFI, but they have CSM.ĬSM - UEFI Compatibility Support Module (CSM), which emulates a BIOS mode I'd never done that before and it seemed a little weird, maybe that's why everything is broken? It said to create 3 partitions, one for swap, one for files, and one for Ubuntu. ![]() Is there a way, using the boot repair restore usb, that I can dump all the data to somewhere, and restore it back if I fail?ĪNY help would be appreciated, or links to threads with possible solutions.īTW: This is the guide I followed to begin with: ![]() However I don't want to loose it for good if I fail. I'm wondering what would happen if I formatted the /sda1 partition and tried to restore it with the windows disk. This seems counterproductive, I don't want to use LiLO, I want the windows bootloader back.Ħ. ![]() ![]() I've also followed all the steps here: except the lilo part. The last 2 images in the album are of various attempts to repair the boot using boot repair. Unallocated is for whatever OSs I want to try in the future.Ĥ. Highlighting the exclamation point does nothing. dev/sda1 is for the windows bootloader (I think) See image 2, 3, and 4 in the imgur ablum. I think that worked before when I had this problem but I don't know how to get it to work.ģ. When I try to use diskpart to set the C: drive to 'active', it says something about not being an EFI fixed disk (or maybe not "a guid partition scheme", I don't remember). When I use bootrec.exe /fixboot and /fixmbr, it doesn't work. All of these link to a grub rescue page that says this:Įrror: file '/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod' not found.Ģ. UEFI OS, Windows Boot Manager 1, and Windows Boot Manager 2. There are 3 listings in the boot menu, as seen on the first image on the imgur page. Please see this album because I don't know how to make images small: ġ. Last time I solved the problem by erasing the whole hard drive, but I don't want to do that again. Everytime I want to do something like this though, I usually mess up the bootloader. I wanted (and still do) to install Ubuntu on my laptop alongside Windows. ![]()
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