Grub won't launch after installation

[John_Sutton]

I recently reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop. After the installation, grub failed to launch. I can boot Ubuntu only by manually selecting the grub EFI file through BIOS. I have run boot-repair but the issue was not fixed. Here is the information generated by boot-repair: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11730173/

[oldfred]

You show grub in both the gpt protective MBR for BIOS boot and in the efi partition for UEFI boot. It looks like you now are configured for UEFI boot as fstab has an entry for mounting the efi partition.

Have you gone into UEFI boot tab and moved ubuntu entry to first in boot order?

What brand/model system.
Some vendors modify UEFI to boot by description and only valid description is "Windows". That is not per UEFI standard.
But we have work arounds. Many alternates, if only booting Ubuntu not Windows we can in UEFI change description from ubuntu to Windows, so it thinks it is booting Windows. Details are in link in my signature.

[John_Sutton]

Have you gone into UEFI boot tab and moved ubuntu entry to first in boot order?
No, I'm not sure how to do that.


What brand/model system.
It is an HP elitebook.

[oldfred]

HP's typical require work arounds. They have modified UEFI to boot only "Windows" description.

HP to get into UEFI/BIOS menu - escape then f10 as soon as it starts.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01443329&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=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


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

this user discusses the HP UEFI entries:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2256244

[John_Sutton]

Wow, that was really easy to fix once I knew what the problem was, thanks a bunch!

For future use, I followed the instructions in this very clever post:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/244261/how-do-i-get-my-hp-laptop-to-boot-into-grub-from-my-new-efi-file