[Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

[Streakstar]

Thank you so much, the error was staring me right in the face every time I ran boot-repair but I didn't understand it. I was always given the option to boot the cd in uefi or legacy mode. Uefi always seemed to error, but really I just needed to be more patient. So I always used legacy mode. I never paid attention to that part until I tried it out again this morning. I tried in Uefi mode instead and it worked perfectly.

[Christos_Ch]

@oldfred

Thank you for your response.
I booted the Live System in BIOS and I run boot-repair. Again after prompting me to type tthe aforementioned third command the terminal still returns the "no matches found: grub". Can you help me?

Edit: I managed to to boot in my installed Ubuntu using the gnu grub of the Live System, and then using insmod, linux, initrd, and boot commands. So I installed boot repair, and again it still the terminal returns the "no matches found: grub*". The Boot info summary: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7775190/

[oldfred]

@Christos_Ch
If you can manually boot into your system, reinstall grub from there, you do not need Boot-Repair for that.
You can run just the reinstall to the MBR within an install with just these commands:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
If any error:
sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
sudo update-grub


But dpkg install often does more.

#To see what drive grub2 uses see this line - grub-pc/install_devices:
sudo debconf-show grub-pc
sudo grub-probe -t device /boot/grub


#to get grub2 to remember where to reinstall on updates:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
#Enter thru first pages,spacebar to choose/unchoose drive, enter to accept, do not choose partitions
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2189643

[Christos_Ch]

@oldfred

Thanks for your response. Sorry for not answering sooner, butiwas trying to fix the problem. I followed your instructions and I read the thread you linked.
I install GRUB, but then debconf cannot find it. It is like it is not there. I don't seem to find any solution to my problem.

I think I am getting out of topic to this thread, so I will stop. Thanks for your responses and your help.

[oldfred]

@Christos_Ch
May be better to start new thread in Absolute Beginners. Post link to new run of BootInfo report.
Absolute Beginners Section:
http://ubuntuforums.org/newthread.ph...ewthread&f=326

[jordi11]

Hi!

I'm having some troubles with the grub after making a dist-upgrade after changing the raring repositories to use the old-releases server (It updated the grub and messed it up).
I have to say that the linux distro in which I'm having trouble is linux mint 15 (like a 13.04 ubuntu), but as I already used this tool several times with it and it worked, I don't think it's a mint specific problem.

After using the tool several times trying some options I got this URL with the results saying that an error occurred.
http://paste2.org/8Vp5mb3s

sda is the hard drive, and sdb is the live USB that I used to run the boot-repair. The disk uses GPT, in sda3 there is windows 7 and linux mint in sda5. The system uses EFI.

I tried to look up myself the generated log, but I lack any knowledge about the grub config.
Any help will be appreciated.

[oldfred]

Does Mint also use Ubuntu repositories? Not sure if Boot-Repair internally uses the repositories you have set or not.

I thought Boot-Repair has to download from current repositories and everything but 12.04 & 14.04 & 10.04 server has expired.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

You also ran the 'buggy' fix. That is only required on some computers and some other renames may work better.
I would undo it and see if you can boot the Mint entry in UEFI.


Always say no until proven that you only can boot Windows entry from UEFI menu.
buggy-kernel detected. Do you want to activate [Backup and rename Windows EFI files]? yes (if any choice fails, please retry with the other)
To undo & to rename files to their original names, you just need to tick the "Restore EFI backups" option of Boot-Repair.

You also show dual video which also has issues. Generally you need a newer nVidia that is in the newest Ubuntu and with Intel the newest kernel & support software as well as Intel video drivers. Newest version may not be new enough for some very new systems.

Broadwell (future) fix for use with 14.04's 3.13 kernel. Fixes really in 3.15 kernel
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTY0ODY
Haswell improvements thru 2013
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...well_end&num=1

[jordi11]

Thanks for the answer.
Mint uses their own repositories plus the ubuntu official ones.

I restored the EFi backups but I keeped having some troubles.

Finally I could log in my system using this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...5#post11308225
And there reinstall grub. I don't know the exact commands, the grub reinstall was done by a IT friend.

He must be tired of doing this according to the tremendous speed at he fixed the problem xD

Also, the problem with the dual GPU is solved. I got the grub problem trying to solve the dual GPU problem.

Again, thanks for your response.

[Special_Snowflake]

Hello.

My aim is/was to have dual boot system: Win8 and Ubuntu.

I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on my computer (Acer Aspire S7 391, 256GB SSD) and now my computer doesn't boot from HDD (well, SSD) at all. Here is what I've done:
- I resized disk C: on Windows (there is Win8 preinstalled on this laptop), using some standard Windows tool, and created some unallocated space
- I created Ubuntu live USB (ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso) with unetbootin and started it, then installed Ubuntu; there was some problem with creating partitions (swap and ext4) on unallocated space within installer, so I've done this using gparted and then pointed installer to these partitions
- SecureBoot is/was (during installation) disabled
- UEFI is/was (during installation) enabled.

Installation went smoothly. Unfortunately, after reboot there is only a message on the screen "No bootable device found". I can't boot Windows nor Linux anymore.
Some more info about this system: it seems there are 2 SSD disks here (2x128GB) connected with RAID0 (striped); I had only one logical disk in Windows: C:.

I tried to repair the problem with boot-repair, unfortunately to no avail. Here is info created by this tool: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7991980/ ("Toshiba" is a name of the pendrive.)
After clicking on "Recommended repair" button there was some window with a message to paste some commands to a terminal. Well, it didn't work: there was a problem with installing refind. (Message about EFI partition being not VFAT is bogus; it is a VFAT partition!) Here is output:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" dpkg --configure -a
Setting up refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) ...
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
/dev/sda seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
/dev/sdb seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" apt-get install -fy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  secureboot-db shim
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) ...
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
/dev/sda seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
/dev/sdb seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" apt-get install -y --force-yes dmraid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
dmraid is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  secureboot-db shim
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) ...
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
/dev/sda seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
/dev/sdb seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" dmraid -ay
RAID set "isw_cbadbdeiae_HDD0" already active
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" apt-get purge -y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Note, selecting 'pv-grub-menu' for regex 'grub*'
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Note, selecting 'grub-efi-i386' for regex 'grub*'
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Note, selecting 'kde-config-grub2' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-ieee1275' for regex 'grub*'
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Note, selecting 'grub-legacy-ec2' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-theme-starfield' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub2-splashimages' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'wmlongrun' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-emu-dbg' for regex 'grub*'
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Note, selecting 'grub-disk' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-splashimages' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-xen-bin' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'fgrun' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-emu' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-ipxe' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-rescue-pc' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'ruby-gruff' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-coreboot-dbg' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-xen' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-efi-ia32-bin' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-ieee1275-dbg' for regex 'grub*'
Note, selecting 'grub-legacy-doc' for regex 'grub*'
Package 'grub-efi-ia64' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-yeeloong' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-legacy' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'espresso-grub' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-efi-i386' is not installed, so not removed
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-24-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-raring-eol-upgrade' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-trusty' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-raring' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-saucy-eol-upgrade' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-saucy' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-29-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-saucy' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-27-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.11.0-12-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-quantal' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-quantal' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'efilinux-signed' for regex 'linux-signed*'
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Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-trusty' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-30-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-raring' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-image-generic' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Note, selecting 'linux-signed-generic-lts-quantal-eol-upgrade' for regex 'linux-signed*'
Package 'grub' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-gfxpayload-lists' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-ipxe' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-legacy-doc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'shim-signed' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'congruity' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'efilinux-signed' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'fgrun' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-disk' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-imageboot' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-invaders' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-splashimages' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub2-splashimages' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grun' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'kde-config-grub2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'pv-grub-menu' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'ruby-gruff' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'ruby-rspec-longrun' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'sabily-grub-artwork' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'wmlongrun' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-efi-amd64-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
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Package 'grub-ieee1275' is not installed, so not removed
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Package 'linux-signed-generic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-quantal' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-quantal-eol-upgrade' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-raring' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-raring-eol-upgrade' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-saucy' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-saucy-eol-upgrade' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-generic-lts-trusty' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-24-generic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-27-generic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-29-generic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-30-generic' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic' is not installed, so not removed
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Package 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-saucy' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-generic-lts-trusty' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-coreboot' is not installed, so not removed
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Package 'grub-emu-dbg' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-firmware-qemu' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-linuxbios' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-rescue-pc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub-theme-starfield' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'grub2' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'linux-signed-image-3.11.0-12-generic' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  secureboot-db shim
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub-common* grub-efi* grub-efi-amd64* grub-efi-amd64-bin* grub2-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 15.9 MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 166310 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-efi (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Removing grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Purging configuration files for grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Removing grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Removing grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Removing grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Purging configuration files for grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) ...
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
/dev/sda seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
/dev/sdb seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot "/media/ubuntu/2bc2313e-d15e-41fa-9ea7-30df952ae271" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub2-common
  linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-signed-image-generic
Suggested packages:
  multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso desktop-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed
  grub2-common linux-signed-generic linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic
  linux-signed-image-generic shim-signed
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 336 kB/3,454 kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:4 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main shim-signed amd64 1.6+0.4-0ubuntu4 [327 kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-common.
(Reading database ... 165935 files and directories currently installed.)
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Unpacking shim-signed (1.6+0.4-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up refind (0.8.3-0ppa1) ...
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
/dev/sda seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
/dev/sdb seems to be part of a RAID array; skipping!
///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up grub-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Setting up linux-signed-image-3.13.0-32-generic (3.13.0-32.57) ...
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done
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Setting up grub2-common (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...

Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.34.1+2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Setting up shim-signed (1.6+0.4-0ubuntu4) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As I cannot use my new shiny computer without pendrive now, I am begging you for some help. Your support will be much appreciated.
Feel free to ask any questions and make any requests; I am somehow experienced Linux user (I have been using it since the 90's), but I can't figure out this one.

Thank you.

[oldfred]

@Special_Snowflake

Your issue is the RAID as the desktop installer does not have the drivers. And then grub does not install correctly.
They used to have an alternative installer for RAID and LVM, but discontinued it after 12.04 with promises of later adding that back into gui installer. With 14.04 you can now use LVM which is a full drive install and it seems to recognize RAID better but not yet fully.

I do not know RAID, so not sure if any of this helps.

RAID install with efi, need configfile and grub in efi partition.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2190716
http://askubuntu.com/questions/35572...-and-raid1-lvm

With LVM, Ubuntu installs a separate /boot and the efi outside the RAID. You have efi partition inside the RAID and I think I have seen that work as I thought it had to be outside of the RAID for the UEFI to read the drive.

One or two users with dual SSD, fully back up system, break RAID and restore Windows to one drive and install Ubuntu to the other drive. I think Intel SRT can easily be restored, not so sure about full "fakeRAID" type install.

Acer Aspire S7 can't install ubuntu - UltraBook erased RAID meta-data
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121187

Most do not recommend RAID 0.
Don't bother with RAID 0 unless you have a specific need for speed without data redundancy, since if one drive goes out, you lose the whole array.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/n...-is-not-backup

User who installed fakeRAID
How to install Ubuntu 14.04 in software RAID 1 with Intel Z87 chipset mobo controller
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2229126