19.10 Boot Fixer broke USB durring boot

[delif]

After the bootfixer patch yesterday I am unable to use USB during boot, no access to system settings or to change options in the grub loader. The devices do not become active until the login screen. I'm booting 19.1 UEFI and have tried all USB ports.

[oldfred]

May be best to see details, use ppa version with your live installer (2nd option) or any working install, not older Boot-Repair ISO:
Please copy & paste link to the Boot-info summary report ( do not post report), the auto fix sometimes can create more issues.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair &
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

[delif]

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/4ZTGcMSdbw/

[oldfred]

You have no UEFI boot files in the ESP on sdb.
You would normally boot from grub on sda.

Have you tried this?
sudo update-grub

Your sdb2 drive's fstab shows mount of same ESP as sda's install. That can lead to issues on updates as both grub with a major update may change the 3 line configfile grub.cfg entry to the full grub in your install.

Does install on sdb have LVM drivers so it can "see" the install on sda?

[delif]

You have no UEFI boot files in the ESP on sdb.
You would normally boot from grub on sda.

Have you tried this?
sudo update-grub

Your sdb2 drive's fstab shows mount of same ESP as sda's install. That can lead to issues on updates as both grub with a major update may change the 3 line configfile grub.cfg entry to the full grub in your install.

Does install on sdb have LVM drivers so it can "see" the install on sda?


sudo update-grub did update, made no difference.


I was originally booting 19.0 and went to a dual with 18 to do testing under LTR.
If I can figure out USB on boot I intend to reimage entirely to 19.3, unfortunately Murphy stepped in and prevented that yesterday lol

sdb was managing grub before yesterday's update, so it must

[dragonfly41]

rEFInd (https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html) has dug others out of Grub hell.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install refind

It is fairly safe to install since it adds to the /boot/efi/ location and does not delete the default Grub2.

[oldfred]

I have used rEFInd for emergeny boot and seen many others use it.

Your boot shows that sda is default boot in UEFI.

In ESP, see line 209:


search.fs_uuid d3387d22-7e21-4018-a299-a05ec0165c96 root lvmid/u49X2s-2Pnh-5LH8-Jq2A-HQgv-3UTc-ovDyFX/GdJJVs-5HME-oLda-7CaE-NIQm-W2H6-jveTAJ
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg


If you change above to sdb install's UUID.


search.fs_uuid f26d6830-5f43-4eb8-aae8-dca1f38875e2 root
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

[delif]

It switched me back to 18 on sdb but still no USB during boot.

[oldfred]

USB boot would only be from UEFI boot menu, not from grub.

If UEFI with Secure boot off, you should get two boot options from UEFI boot menu.
You were able to run Boot-Repair.

[delif]

But I can't access the UEFI menu, or any menu, as USB doesn't enable until after the operating system begins to load? That's the issue I'm trying to resolve.

[delif]

Long story short, I pulled the cmos battery, and I'm back in business.