No option to choose between Ubuntu or Windows at startup; tried many suggestions already
Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one /
and swap.)
After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!
What I've tried:
- I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.
- I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.
Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says
EFI detected. Please check the options.
I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*
I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic
After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.
I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
The grub file came up, I added a
#
in front ofGRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0
, saved, and in the terminal wrote:
sudo update-grub
This comes backs:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.
And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
dual-boot grub2 system-installation boot-repair
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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one /
and swap.)
After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!
What I've tried:
- I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.
- I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.
Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says
EFI detected. Please check the options.
I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*
I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic
After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.
I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
The grub file came up, I added a
#
in front ofGRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0
, saved, and in the terminal wrote:
sudo update-grub
This comes backs:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.
And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
dual-boot grub2 system-installation boot-repair
Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.
– Avinash Raj
Apr 21 '14 at 7:20
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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one /
and swap.)
After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!
What I've tried:
- I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.
- I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.
Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says
EFI detected. Please check the options.
I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*
I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic
After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.
I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
The grub file came up, I added a
#
in front ofGRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0
, saved, and in the terminal wrote:
sudo update-grub
This comes backs:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.
And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
dual-boot grub2 system-installation boot-repair
Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one /
and swap.)
After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!
What I've tried:
- I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.
- I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.
Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says
EFI detected. Please check the options.
I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*
I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic
After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.
I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.
I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
The grub file came up, I added a
#
in front ofGRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0
, saved, and in the terminal wrote:
sudo update-grub
This comes backs:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.
And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?
dual-boot grub2 system-installation boot-repair
dual-boot grub2 system-installation boot-repair
edited May 2 '18 at 14:17
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asked Apr 20 '14 at 17:03
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Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.
– Avinash Raj
Apr 21 '14 at 7:20
add a comment |
Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.
– Avinash Raj
Apr 21 '14 at 7:20
Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.
– Avinash Raj
Apr 21 '14 at 7:20
Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.
– Avinash Raj
Apr 21 '14 at 7:20
add a comment |
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Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
add a comment |
use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended
open advanced options in boot-repair
in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)
advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")
advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")
advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)
this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader
add a comment |
Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
add a comment |
If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".
This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.
Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.
Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.
add a comment |
If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.
There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.
Good luck.
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Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)
Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.
Now restart and it should work fine.
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Ashton,
You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.
You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair
. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair
. That is why it didn't work.
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0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
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Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
add a comment |
Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
add a comment |
Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.
Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/
I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.
answered Apr 20 '14 at 17:27
trucker_Richtrucker_Rich
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By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
add a comment |
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?
– amanthethy
Aug 5 '14 at 6:44
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.
– Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Jul 8 '17 at 7:25
add a comment |
use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended
open advanced options in boot-repair
in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)
advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")
advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")
advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)
this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader
add a comment |
use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended
open advanced options in boot-repair
in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)
advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")
advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")
advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)
this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader
add a comment |
use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended
open advanced options in boot-repair
in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)
advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")
advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")
advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)
this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader
use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended
open advanced options in boot-repair
in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)
advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")
advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")
advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)
this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader
answered Apr 20 '14 at 17:31
SudheerSudheer
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Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
add a comment |
Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
add a comment |
Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
edited Mar 14 '15 at 22:06
Byte Commander
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answered Mar 14 '15 at 20:42
Sourav KondapakaSourav Kondapaka
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If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".
This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.
Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.
Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.
add a comment |
If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".
This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.
Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.
Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.
add a comment |
If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".
This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.
Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.
Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.
If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".
This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.
Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.
Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.
edited Nov 21 '15 at 15:19
kos
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answered Nov 21 '15 at 14:38
Cyrus BurkeCyrus Burke
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If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.
There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.
Good luck.
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If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.
There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.
Good luck.
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If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.
There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.
Good luck.
If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.
There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.
Good luck.
answered Sep 12 '17 at 1:28
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Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)
Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.
Now restart and it should work fine.
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Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)
Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.
Now restart and it should work fine.
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Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)
Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.
Now restart and it should work fine.
Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)
Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.
Now restart and it should work fine.
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answered Nov 15 '17 at 19:00
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Ashton,
You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.
You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair
. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair
. That is why it didn't work.
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Ashton,
You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.
You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair
. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair
. That is why it didn't work.
add a comment |
Ashton,
You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.
You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair
. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair
. That is why it didn't work.
Ashton,
You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.
You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair
. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair
. That is why it didn't work.
answered Feb 8 '18 at 1:40
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
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0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
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0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
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0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
(for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
sudo update-grub
After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.
answered Feb 7 '18 at 8:54
DavidDavid
1
1
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
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This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…
– karel
Feb 9 '18 at 0:35
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