Problems with Windows Recovery and grub after dual-boot install with Ubuntu 12.04
Hi,
As per YannBuntu suggestion in another thread I'm starting this new thread.
I'm having problems after installing Ubuntu 12.10 on a new Laptop running Windows 8 where I can no longer get into Windows Recovery.
Some background first:
I got a new Asus S46CA Ultrabook with Windows 8 preinstalled. I've been running Ubuntu 12.10 on my old laptop dual boot with Windows 7, but I did some reading before deciding to install Unbntu side by side with Windows 8. Based on my reading I made my install disk with ubuntu-secure-remix-12.10-64bit.iso
Then I did the following:
1) Disable Quickstart feature in Windows 8
2) Went into BIOS and disabled SecureBoot and Fast-start
3) Booted into Live CD and installed using Other Option
4) Resized 2 partitions to get 3 new partitions:
a) 30 Gig for /
b) 30 Gig for /home
c) 6 Gig for SWAP
5) Completed the installation and rebooted
6) Computer booted straight into Windows 8 (didn't give any options to chose)
7) I rebooted into BIOS and in the options for boot sequence there was an option to boot into the Ubuntu which I selected.
8) After reboot I got Grub with:
Ubuntu
Advance Options for Ubuntu
Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda2)
Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4)
9) The 2 Windows options fail each time giving:
error: impossible find command'drivemap';
error: invalid EFI file path;
press any key to continue*
10) Did some reading and learned about Boot Repair ((boot-sav-extra_3.197~ppa10~quantal_all.deb)and ran root repair using the Live USB. I used the recommended settings and here is the result: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1466219/
11) I rebooted and now I got grub with the following options:
Ubuntu
Advance Options for Ubuntu
Windows UEFI loader
Windows Boot UEFI bootx64.efi.bkp
Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda2)
Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4)
The last 2 options still give me the same error as before (see point 9 above).
The other 2 Windows options (with UEFI) both lauch the windows recovery screen but automatically load into Windows 8 and not the recovery itself.
And in case it might be of use, here is the content of grub.cfg
Attached you will find screen captures of the various partitions on sda and sdbCode:# # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then set have_grubenv=true load_env fi set default="0" if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then menuentry_id_option="--id" else menuentry_id_option="" fi export menuentry_id_option if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}" save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi function savedefault { if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then saved_entry="${chosen}" save_env saved_entry fi } function recordfail { set recordfail=1 if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi } function load_video { if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then insmod all_video else insmod efi_gop insmod efi_uga insmod ieee1275_fb insmod vbe insmod vga insmod video_bochs insmod video_cirrus fi } if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then font=unicode else insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt5' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt5 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt5 ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd fi font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2" fi if loadfont $font ; then set gfxmode=auto load_video insmod gfxterm set locale_dir=$prefix/locale set lang=en_US insmod gettext fi terminal_output gfxterm if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then set timeout=10 else set timeout=10 fi ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=white/black set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray if background_color 44,0,30; then clear fi ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### function gfxmode { set gfxpayload="${1}" if [ "${1}" = "keep" ]; then set vt_handoff=vt.handoff=7 else set vt_handoff= fi } if [ "${recordfail}" != 1 ]; then if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then set linux_gfx_mode=keep else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi else set linux_gfx_mode=keep fi else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi export linux_gfx_mode if [ "${linux_gfx_mode}" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd' { recordfail gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt5' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt5 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt5 ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd fi linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic } submenu 'Advanced options for Ubuntu' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd' { menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-17-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-17-generic-advanced-ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd' { recordfail gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt5' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt5 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt5 ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd fi echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-17-generic ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd ro quiet splash $vt_handoff echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic } menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-17-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-17-generic-recovery-ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd' { recordfail insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt5' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt5 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt5 ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd fi echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-17-generic ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=ca6b5778-6ce5-4b46-b511-24d70cdb1ebd ro recovery nomodeset echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic } } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/25_custom ### menuentry "Windows UEFI loader" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 02F6-23A5 chainloader (${root})/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.bkp } menuentry "Windows Boot UEFI bootx64.efi.bkp" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 02F6-23A5 chainloader (${root})/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi.bkp } ### END /etc/grub.d/25_custom ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry 'Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda2)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-1072DD5B72DD45DE' { insmod part_gpt insmod ntfs set root='hd0,gpt2' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2 1072DD5B72DD45DE else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1072DD5B72DD45DE fi drivemap -s (hd0) ${root} chainloader +1 } menuentry 'Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-B6C4E84CC4E81103' { insmod part_gpt insmod ntfs set root='hd0,gpt4' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 B6C4E84CC4E81103 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root B6C4E84CC4E81103 fi drivemap -s (hd0) ${root} chainloader +1 } ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ### ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ### if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then source $prefix/custom.cfg; fi ### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
on sda:
partition 5 is /
partition 7 is /home
partition 8 is /SWAP
partition 2 is Recovery
partition 9 is Restore
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks and cheers
Shoryuken
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Originally Posted by oldfred
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