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Am sure rEFInd is the answer to at least both Johnathan Precise's and bitcrow's inconveniences or anybody else who wants more control over their U/EFI booting system.
I would recommend trying...

I guess as boot-repair is not in Ubuntu at least not part of .iso it could be considered "BETA" also!?
Did you spend any time reading rodsbook page on when and why to use rEFInd? I personally can...

It is also OS writers responsibility to ensure backward compatibility. Have installed grub-efi without renaming bootloaders which may indicate other problems or poor efi implementation either on the...

Recently tried out saucy and had to check out which iso i had downloaded after noticing in BIS DVD is using mac partition table. Definitely using amd64 Desktop .iso! All this may be contributing...

@Jonathan Precise It may be firmware does not like being told what to do by efibootmgr!?
Try installing rEFInd which is much more reliable.
How to get; install and configure refind.conf for rEFInd...

Continually trying to reinstall Ubuntu is only adding extra boot entries and not helping things to get Ubuntu booting.
What we could try to get you using your laptop as a computer and not a...

Fixparts is for MBR/BIOS/Legacy/CSM system. Which is what Quackers recommends to use as skyglow indicates the intention of staying with MBR.

If you want to go with GPT and UEFI (Ubuntu has ability...

@tuva2
Did you use Ubuntu installer to delete Windows Partition only?
It should be possible to delete Windows boot entries using "efibootmgr" using Ubuntu installation media.

One observation i...

@MeuronS It appears Windows installed using UEFI and Ubuntu used Legacy/BIOS. Use boot-repair to install grub-efi. Use the advanced options button to review the options regarding this after making...

@roemhildtg Ubuntu has made an 98MB EFI partition on its drive sdc. It may be necessary to provide a larger EFI System Partition (ESP) on sda. After installing and using an operating system it may...

It should... chuckle
There appears to be many suspects causing the inability to use installation media to install Ubuntu U/EFI mode. One invaluable resource i have found to enable starting of...

How about flashing rom with manufacuters update in order to get thing booting as intended.?


Removing battery should reveal a sticker with device details such vendor identification and model...

The vendors of this motherboard claim it to be capable full implemetation of EFI. Using `efisystab` when booting Ubuntu media EFI mode confirms EFI ver1.1 rev 2 which rEFInd sees as UEFI 2.1.
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Moozillaa please post the ubuntu.com url that will provide a spam free viewing of your BIS. Thank you.

Understood.
That is the problem.

The Canonical BIOS/UEFI Requirements [link](http://hwe.ubuntu.com/docs/ubuntu-bios-uefi-requirements.pdf) is a stomper. It does go some way to explain Ubuntu is...

I wonder how much more grub-efi would be compatible with all machines if grub developers worked within UEFI specification. Apparently the dependency of renaming somebody else's bootloader is a big...

This scenario is applicable to precise quantal and raring ie >=12.04.2 I have been using 13.04 .iso the Ubuntu install on hard drive is 13.04. I do appreciate there are few people with this...

Here is a small quote from the link
[QUOTE][3.2 Ubuntu x86_64 ISO

3.2.1 Extract the Ubuntu x86_64 iso into [MOUNTPOINT] using 7-zip (p7zip) or any other appropriate tool.
3.2.2 If...

https://gitorious.org/tianocore_uefi_duet_builds/pages/Linux_Windows_BIOS_UEFI_boot_USB very interesting

rEFInd can not see any usable efi bootloaders. This hardware is a full bios system with an emulated EFI layer. Which means i do not have the necessary CSM to let rEFInd see msdos bootloaders as...

and then you ask


The mention of RAID i thought was due to Fedora using LVM as default when trying to install Fedora. Fedora only rebooted once after installing and broke when trying to update. ...

Switch UEFI back on and use boot-repair to fix boots with disk unmounted (live DVD or boot-repair disk) see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI for using boot-repair or to install grub-efi manualy...

The reason why boot-repair-disk is doing this is probably directly related to why i can not boot any Grub options when trying to install using EFI.

It would appear due to the fact there is no...

Can only boot Ubuntu 13.04 after switching EFI off by selecting NON EFI. I decided to try booting boot-repair disk with these settings to see what the result would be. What happened was after...

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i am not sure what you are describing here do you mean when booting Ubuntu liveDVD?

What i have already described when trying to explain what i have done when booting a...