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

[little-gimli]

Nevermind, I found the problem: I've deactived "Quick Boot" in BIOS and now it is working. Whatever. Thank you.

[jeffjohn2]

My problem is with an HP Pavilion Notebook Entertainment v7... Ubuntu 12.04 runs well on it but start up is problematical.
Start key never works unless I opt for start-display "esc" key. I presume this is a way of slowing the boot.
The BIOS page is very limited so what I seek is a way to automate Start+"Esc" or to avoid this difficulty. Has anyone found a work-around or indeed had experience of this?

[oldfred]

@jeffjohn2
Are all systems installed in UEFI boot mode or BIOS boot mode. If not the same you can only boot from UEFI menu as the two modes are not compatible and full reboot required to change. Or you cannot use grub menu.
HP also are not friendly to UEFI boot of anything other than Windows. In UEFI mode most rename the hard drive boot entry to really be a grub or shim boot file and then can dual boot in UEFI mode from grub menu.
Issues seem pretty common across all HP models, just different options in UEFI.

HP ProBook 450 G1 Custom UEFI boot or copy to bootx64.efi
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=164076

HP to get into UEFI/BIOS menu - escape then f10 as soon as it starts.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=5171079
It seems hp firmware do not allow you to boot anything other than windows. Hence no ubuntu option in the UEFI. To work around it
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2227889
1) press esc key while booting to access start up menu 2) press F9 for boot devices menu.
[SOLVED] Trying to install Ubuntu as dual boot on Windows 8.1 desktop HP500
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218154

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=164076
HP 4545s Secure boot off, manually copy files.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2133796
HP Manually renamed files to make it work.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131886

[weed2]

Boot-Repair repaired my dual boot system first time. I was stuck at "File not found" / grub rescue prompt on my 2 drive dual boot up system after I'd tried to boot up with one of the drives disconnected. Many thanks. Have donated.

[Vilsad]

Hi,
I am not able to boot to my Lenovo Z570 Laptop after installing ubuntu 14.04.01, I have erased all partitions and done a clean install, no windows, but grub is not showing or booting to hdd, ran boot repair from usb disk because its an efi bios. but have no configure option in bios menu for disabling secure boot or efi. formatted and ran boot repair a couple of times. stuck with this issue since last two days. please assist. my latest boot info is this paste.ubuntu.com/10086744. Please advice.

[Vilsad]

Hi,
I am not able to boot to my Lenovo Z570 Laptop after installing ubuntu 14.04.1, I have erased all partitions and done a clean install, no windows, but grub is not showing or booting to hdd, ran boot repair from usb disk because its an efi bios. but have no configure option in bios menu for disabling secure boot or efi. formatted and ran boot repair a couple of times. stuck with this issue since last two days. please assist. my latest boot info is this paste.ubuntu.com/10086744. Please advice.

[Eric06]

I had a 2 similar problems recently
- on my Lenovo X230, I had not seen some grub setup errors during the intall : I downloaded 'boot repair' (use google to find it) disk image on another machine and ran the default repair and it fixed the grub configuration, that may be due to UEFI setup
- on my sony Z13 (with a muliple disks raid config) : it had not setup the grub location correctly, I had to redo the install and manually configure the 'where is the boot record), this is not an UEFI machine but it has multiple SSD disks
Hope this help

[Vilsad]

@eric
Hi,
I did it already for a couple of times, but still no working

[oldfred]

@vilsad

You show ubuntu as a UEFI entry.

Boot0008* ubuntu HD(1,800,100000,628694d7-4fd9-412a-be42-2de200f89722)File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)

But many vendors now modify UEFI to only boot by description and the description must be Windows. That is not the UEFI standard.

Since you only have Ubuntu you can rename or add a "Windows" entry that really boots grub or shim.

d1: If Description has to be Windows then change UEFI description.
sudo efibootmgr -c -L "Windows Boot Manager" -l "\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi"

And hard drive entry still works. You can create a /EFI/Boot folder and copy grub or shim into that folder and rename to bootx64.efi. then the hard drive boot entry will boot grub.

You do not currently have the /EFI/Boot folder, so do need to create it, but do not need to backup bootx64.efi. Standard set of instuctrions for those that may also have that folder & file.

From live installer mount the efi partition on hard drive, lines with # are comments only:
#Mount efi partition. check which partition is FAT32 with boot flag. Often sda1 or sda2 but varies. Your efi partition is sda1.

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
#only if not already existing,
sudo mkdir /mnt/EFI/Boot
sudo cp /mnt/EFI/ubuntu/* /mnt/EFI/Boot
# If new folder created, the bootx64.efi will not exist, skip this command
sudo mv /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi.backup
# make grub be hard drive boot entry in UEFI. If not existing, may have to update UEFI also with efibootmgr.
sudo mv /mnt/EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

Other perhaps similar Lenovo
Lenovo Thinkpad E531 - turn off locked boot order setting in UEFI
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2255746
[SOLVED] Error 1962: No operating system found. Lenovo K430 only boot Ubuntu, rename files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2243715
Some Lenovos comes with a physical switch that enables you to select which graphics adapter to use.
Lenovo Z510 Laptop & Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2232124
Installing GNU/Linux on a 2014 Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon UEFI/BIOS suspend to RAM issue
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/install...kpad-x1-carbon

[Micky_Ginsby]

Hi there, also tried this software, but was unable to set up a dual boot system (Win XP and Linux). My efforts are documented here: http://paste2.org/_Ntvg7cnG Since it did not work, I switched back to the mbr and my old WIN XP boots again. What have I done wrong? Kind regards, Mcky