chrisgzf
March 28th, 2015, 09:08 AM
Hello all,
I was installing xubuntu on a HP Envy 4 Ultrabook that has Windows 7 installed in UEFI.
After installing xubuntu, my laptop still boots straight into the windows boot manager and straight into windows 7 on power up. The only way I could boot into xubuntu was if I Esc (to interrupt boot) > F9 (to select boot device), which would give me a list (OS boot manager, Ubuntu, ubuntu) in that order. The first option boots w7, while the remaining 2 boots into grub, to which I will select Ubuntu again to boot into xubuntu. Note that in my bios, under boot order there is no "Ubuntu" option so I couldn't just change the default in my bios.
because I wanted grub as my main boot manager, I went into xubuntu and ran the standard boot-repair, which still did not fix my problem.
i went into xubuntu again and ticked the "backup and rename windows efi files [to solve hard coded efi problems]" option in boot-repair as a test to see if it would change anything. The log file generated by boot-repair is here http://paste.ubuntu.com/10693466
after boot-repair was done, I restarted my computer and all I see is
Booting in insecure mode
Failed to open \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\grubx64.efi - 800000000000000E
Failed to load image
Failed to open \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\MokManager.efi - 800000000000000E
Failed to load image
so afterwards I sort of realised that it didn't work. I restarted and tried using my select boot device option (the Esc>f9) method and I see the same error, not the usual menu. Tried entering bios, nope still same error. I can't even enter my bios.
the last I remember my boot order in bios is set to os boot manager first, so I don't think my laptop will react to anything even if I put in a Linux install disk into a external disk drive and plug it in (my computer is an Ultrabook so no internal disk drives). I tried plugging in the thumbdrive which I put the xubuntu install ISO on but still nothing happened.
i did some research and it says it's probably a secure boot issue, which I don't think is on (really don't remember). And right now I can't access anything at all not even my bios. I faced similar issues with windows 8 in the past where it would "hibernate" instead of fully shutdown and I would be unable to access the bios and etc, in the past. (Just as extra information)
1. Did I just kill my computer? Can I still save it? How do I save it?
2. If my computer is dead, can I still rescue files from my windows partition with any method? The file system is largely untouched I would assume only the booting efi files were changed.
I was installing xubuntu on a HP Envy 4 Ultrabook that has Windows 7 installed in UEFI.
After installing xubuntu, my laptop still boots straight into the windows boot manager and straight into windows 7 on power up. The only way I could boot into xubuntu was if I Esc (to interrupt boot) > F9 (to select boot device), which would give me a list (OS boot manager, Ubuntu, ubuntu) in that order. The first option boots w7, while the remaining 2 boots into grub, to which I will select Ubuntu again to boot into xubuntu. Note that in my bios, under boot order there is no "Ubuntu" option so I couldn't just change the default in my bios.
because I wanted grub as my main boot manager, I went into xubuntu and ran the standard boot-repair, which still did not fix my problem.
i went into xubuntu again and ticked the "backup and rename windows efi files [to solve hard coded efi problems]" option in boot-repair as a test to see if it would change anything. The log file generated by boot-repair is here http://paste.ubuntu.com/10693466
after boot-repair was done, I restarted my computer and all I see is
Booting in insecure mode
Failed to open \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\grubx64.efi - 800000000000000E
Failed to load image
Failed to open \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\MokManager.efi - 800000000000000E
Failed to load image
so afterwards I sort of realised that it didn't work. I restarted and tried using my select boot device option (the Esc>f9) method and I see the same error, not the usual menu. Tried entering bios, nope still same error. I can't even enter my bios.
the last I remember my boot order in bios is set to os boot manager first, so I don't think my laptop will react to anything even if I put in a Linux install disk into a external disk drive and plug it in (my computer is an Ultrabook so no internal disk drives). I tried plugging in the thumbdrive which I put the xubuntu install ISO on but still nothing happened.
i did some research and it says it's probably a secure boot issue, which I don't think is on (really don't remember). And right now I can't access anything at all not even my bios. I faced similar issues with windows 8 in the past where it would "hibernate" instead of fully shutdown and I would be unable to access the bios and etc, in the past. (Just as extra information)
1. Did I just kill my computer? Can I still save it? How do I save it?
2. If my computer is dead, can I still rescue files from my windows partition with any method? The file system is largely untouched I would assume only the booting efi files were changed.