jmorgan2047
November 26th, 2016, 02:46 AM
Hello,
It all started when the Windows 10 side of my dual boot machine (a Dell Inspiron laptop) did an update, and afterwards, from the Ubuntu side, I could no longer view the Windows system files.
Previously I had enabled dual boot and viewing of the Windows system files from Ubuntu by making sure "fast startup" and secure boot were disabled (from the Windows side).
I also issued a mount command, only one time, from the Ubuntu side, to mount the Windows file system. Everything worked great. For months. Until the most recent Windows update.
Instead of trying to issue a mount command again, I started mucking around with "BIOS" settings. Now it's all muffed up.
At some point while trying different settings in the setup and "BIOS" menus, Windows hijacked the boot process, and I could not get the grub menu with the option to boot Ubuntu.
I treid all kinds of combinations of boot menu settings. Then, in desperation, I "removed" the Windows boot option (via the setup/BIOS/F12 menu).
Now it won't boot at all, it can't find any bootable devices.
I created a Ubuntu Live usb drive and installed boot-repair-disk on it, and was able to boot from/into that.
I ran the boot-repair utility several times, but it's not working. It says:
"The boot of your PC is in Legacy mode. Please change it to EFI mode. Please use
Boot-Repar-Disk-64bit (...) which contains an EFI compat version of this software."
But this message makes no sense because the boot of my pc is not in Legacy Mode (per the visible menu settings), and I am using the 64-bit boot-repair-disk utility.
EDITED: actually, in order to boot from the usb, I do have the "Enable Legacy Optopn ROM" enabled.
And since I amt running Ubu Live off USB, and the USB is FAT32 format, that could be a problem. I did create the usb using the Yumi tool and I thought that was supposed to format it appropriately.
note: I also edited the pastebin url which had a typo in it: it was missing the / between the domain and the query string
END OF EDIT
I have also tried running sudo update-grub from a terminal in the Windows Live/usb session, but got this error:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'.
The uploaded bootinfo file is at paste.ubuntu.com/23535052 (http://paste.ubuntu.com/23535052)
Any help would be so very appreciated. Thanks.
It all started when the Windows 10 side of my dual boot machine (a Dell Inspiron laptop) did an update, and afterwards, from the Ubuntu side, I could no longer view the Windows system files.
Previously I had enabled dual boot and viewing of the Windows system files from Ubuntu by making sure "fast startup" and secure boot were disabled (from the Windows side).
I also issued a mount command, only one time, from the Ubuntu side, to mount the Windows file system. Everything worked great. For months. Until the most recent Windows update.
Instead of trying to issue a mount command again, I started mucking around with "BIOS" settings. Now it's all muffed up.
At some point while trying different settings in the setup and "BIOS" menus, Windows hijacked the boot process, and I could not get the grub menu with the option to boot Ubuntu.
I treid all kinds of combinations of boot menu settings. Then, in desperation, I "removed" the Windows boot option (via the setup/BIOS/F12 menu).
Now it won't boot at all, it can't find any bootable devices.
I created a Ubuntu Live usb drive and installed boot-repair-disk on it, and was able to boot from/into that.
I ran the boot-repair utility several times, but it's not working. It says:
"The boot of your PC is in Legacy mode. Please change it to EFI mode. Please use
Boot-Repar-Disk-64bit (...) which contains an EFI compat version of this software."
But this message makes no sense because the boot of my pc is not in Legacy Mode (per the visible menu settings), and I am using the 64-bit boot-repair-disk utility.
EDITED: actually, in order to boot from the usb, I do have the "Enable Legacy Optopn ROM" enabled.
And since I amt running Ubu Live off USB, and the USB is FAT32 format, that could be a problem. I did create the usb using the Yumi tool and I thought that was supposed to format it appropriately.
note: I also edited the pastebin url which had a typo in it: it was missing the / between the domain and the query string
END OF EDIT
I have also tried running sudo update-grub from a terminal in the Windows Live/usb session, but got this error:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'.
The uploaded bootinfo file is at paste.ubuntu.com/23535052 (http://paste.ubuntu.com/23535052)
Any help would be so very appreciated. Thanks.