grub does not boot ubuntu

[kokoor]

Hi,

I recently tried to configure my laptop (lenovo S430) with uefi to dual boot. The laptop came with windows 8. I partitioned the disk and installed ubuntu 12.10. I followed the instructions here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair to setup grub for dual boot.

Dual boot does not work. The grub menu is listing:
1)Windows UEFI bkpbootmgfw.efi 2)Windows Boot UEFI loader 3)EFI/Lenovo/Boot/bootmgf.efi 4)Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4) 5)System setup

So no ubuntu.
Boot repair provided this infomration:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1610298/

I am not sure how to implement correctly the last instruction from the URL :
"Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sda2/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file!"

I would like to be able to select windows 8 or ubuntu 12.10 from a menu at start up.

Thanks

[oldfred]

Welcome to the forums.

I have not understood some details on Lenovo UEFI.
You have two listing of boot entries. Is one recovery and the other standard? Or one mostly hardware and the other systems, although both seem to have both type.

Line 1227 boot order
BootOrder: 0009,000C,000A,0011,000B,0007,0008,000D,000E
Where 0009 is
ATAPI CD0

And at line 1248 boot order
BootOrder: 0012,0009,000C,000A,0011,000B,0007,0008,000D,000E
where 0012 is
ubuntu

so somewhere in your UEFI menu should be entry 0012 that says ubuntu.

Can you boot from that.

[kokoor]

Indeed there is an "ubuntu" entry, but is under devices in "boot" under setup. In grub there is no entry "ubuntu". I think this Boot order is the order I have put the devices in the setup. However even if I put "ubuntu" at the top of the list it doesn't make any difference because it takes me to the grub menu, where ubuntu is not listed.

[kokoor]

How can I make my laptop boot from
sda2/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file?

[kokoor]

Actually I see that there an entry in boot.cfg (line 391)

menuentry "efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 519a635f-1d01-4bed-b5c8-fb2964975127 chainloader (${root})/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

so the file
/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
is listed in boot.cfg.

However I see that there are two other entries
menuentry "efi/EFI/Lenovo/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 519a635f-1d01-4bed-b5c8-fb2964975127 chainloader (${root})/efi/EFI/Lenovo/Boot/bootmgfw.efi }

menuentry "efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 519a635f-1d01-4bed-b5c8-fb2964975127 chainloader (${root})/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi }

menuentry "efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi" { search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 519a635f-1d01-4bed-b5c8-fb2964975127 chainloader (${root})/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi }


So bootx64.efi is 3rd in the order under the same root. Should I change his order manually?

[kokoor]

new development: after following the instructions in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

I managed to get to a menu after restart that had ubuntu option on it. after choosing it I booted into my ubuntu successfully! I thought I was done. But then I tried booting into windows, which worked fine, but after another restart the whole grub menu was gone..... Overwritten by windows boot manager?

[oldfred]

Are you getting to UEFI menu from Windows entry? You need to get to UEFI entry from UEFI directly not thru windows. As long as you use Windows to get to UEFI menu then Windows is the default for UEFI to boot.
You want ubuntu (or the grub efi entry) to be the default from UEFI.

You should be able to directly go to UEFI menu with UEFI setup key for your system. Every vendor is different. And key may not work if fast boot is on as that tries to skip UEFI loading and go straight to Windows and then you only can get to UEFI setup from the Windows menu.
So make sure UEFI has fast boot off.