SiddharthaWolf
February 22nd, 2018, 01:04 PM
Hi,
I'm having trouble booting into an older ASUS dual-boot laptop that I (possibly unwisely) upgraded to 17.4 recently in the hope that it may resolve package conflicts that I suspected may have been making it perform slowly (in reality, it may have been wiser to act on the major memory hoggers, which seemed to be compiz, and find a way of dealing with that, but that's another issue...).
I've tried Boot Repair (via Live USB, which was fine, though quite slow) and it suggested there are errors with the way the boot partition is set up (see http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4Rf22mwMSG/). Specifically that a "locked-ESP" was detected and that I may want to create a new boot partition.
I have no problem doing this, but thought it might be wise to check in with someone more knowledgeable first in case there's something I'm missing or anything else I should consider (and also so that the report can be explained in plainer English to me).
A bit more info: Went into GParted as suggested to see partition table, the first partition is already fat32, 487 MB and containing the boot flag... Is the problem that it's dev/sda1 rather than /boot/efi?
Many thanks!
I'm having trouble booting into an older ASUS dual-boot laptop that I (possibly unwisely) upgraded to 17.4 recently in the hope that it may resolve package conflicts that I suspected may have been making it perform slowly (in reality, it may have been wiser to act on the major memory hoggers, which seemed to be compiz, and find a way of dealing with that, but that's another issue...).
I've tried Boot Repair (via Live USB, which was fine, though quite slow) and it suggested there are errors with the way the boot partition is set up (see http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4Rf22mwMSG/). Specifically that a "locked-ESP" was detected and that I may want to create a new boot partition.
I have no problem doing this, but thought it might be wise to check in with someone more knowledgeable first in case there's something I'm missing or anything else I should consider (and also so that the report can be explained in plainer English to me).
A bit more info: Went into GParted as suggested to see partition table, the first partition is already fat32, 487 MB and containing the boot flag... Is the problem that it's dev/sda1 rather than /boot/efi?
Many thanks!