usamanaveed786
October 5th, 2020, 05:54 PM
Hello and thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read and/or help.
I have a dell Inspiron laptop with 500GB SSD(Windows 10 Installed) and 1TB HDD(Ubuntu 18.04 Installed). When I start my laptop, Ubuntu automatically boot up and everything was going fine. If I had to boot windows 10 I had to enter the boot manager and select "Windows Boot Manager" and I was happy to do that because I rarely use Windows 10.
Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and it broke during the upgrade and I was logged out and when I tried to login an error occurred in grey background saying "Something went wrong". I started digging into the problem and somehow I managed to upgrade my Ubuntu using tty4 terminal and rebooted my system. Now whenever I turn on my laptop grub window comes up with a list including "ubuntu". When I select ubuntu from the list it opens a new with with error message "error: you need to load the kernel first" and at the end it says "press any key to continue" and when I press any key it takes me back to the same grub window and this cycle continues.
I tried repairing grub by using boot-repair tool but nothing changed.
The only way I can boot into Ubuntu is by restarting my PC several times by pressing ctrl + alt + del. After restarting two to three times when I press "ubuntu" in grub list it boots. I have no idea why grub is behaving like this.
These are the content of boot-repair:
boot-repair-4ppa125 [20201005_1610]
============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================
Recommended repair: __________________________________________________ __________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sda2,
using the following options: sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
/boot/efi added in sda2/fstab
sda2/boot/efi not empty
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/etc/default/grub
================= Reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of sda2 ==================
grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.04-1ubuntu26.4
efibootmgr -v from chroot before grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIMicrosoftBootbootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS......... x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
uname -r
5.4.0-48-generic
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
df /dev/sda1
mv /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
efibootmgr -v from chroot after grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIMicrosoftBootbootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS......... x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Warning: NVram was not modified.
update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-48-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-47-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-47-generic
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Boot successfully repaired.
You can now reboot your computer.
Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the The OS now in use - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS CurrentSession entry (sda1/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi file) !
============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg
sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1: The OS now in use - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS CurrentSession on sda2
============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
BOOT_IMAGE of the installed session in use:
/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic root=UUID=525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e ro quiet splash
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this installed-session.
No EFI in dmseg.
SecureBoot enabled.
efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS..... ....x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
2895d47544fd587b26c7e29be1295c27 sda1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84 sda1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
114bd85eec32e3162958ea034020821d sda1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84 sda1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f sda1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f sda1/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: __________________________________________________ __________________
sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios
sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
Partitions info (2/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : not-sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sda
sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
fdisk -l (filtered): __________________________________________________ _________
Disk sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: E7B2D43C-8526-490E-B3E0-32EBC04B1379
Start End Sectors Size Type
sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
sda2 1050624 1953523711 1952473088 931G Linux filesystem
parted -lm (filtered): __________________________________________________ _______
sda:1000GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA ST1000LM049-2GH1:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:1000GB:1000GB:ext4::;
blkid (filtered): __________________________________________________ ____________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1 vfat 2F2A-02B6 fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e EFI System Partition
└─sda2 ext4 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e 92410db4-afce-47b4-9c20-32342248abb4
df (filtered): __________________________________________________ _______________
Avail Use% Mounted on
sda2 747.9G 13% /
Mount options: __________________________________________________ ________________
sda2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro
===================== sda1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Ubuntu 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-48-generic 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-47-generic 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
========================== sda2/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
UUID=2F2A-02B6 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
======================= sda2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
==================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
168.695606232 = 181.135527936 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 boot/vmlinuz 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-47-generic 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 boot/vmlinuz.old 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 vmlinuz 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 vmlinuz.old 1
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 boot/initrd.img 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-47-generic 2
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-48-generic 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 boot/initrd.img.old 2
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 initrd.img 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 initrd.img.old 2
===================== sda2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17622 Sep 8 13:24 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42359 Sep 8 13:24 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12894 Sep 8 13:24 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Nov 11 2019 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1424 Sep 8 13:24 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Nov 11 2019 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Nov 11 2019 41_custom
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 5 14:07 backup
Link to BootInfo summary: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/bBhdXZkpww/
Any idea as to what I am doing wrong or if I am missing something?
I installed grub to /dev/sda but my ubuntu install is /dev/sda2 and I got a warning not to do it to sda2 because it was an unreliable method.
I also mounted the disk after running boot-repair. Attached are the details of mounted disks.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have a dell Inspiron laptop with 500GB SSD(Windows 10 Installed) and 1TB HDD(Ubuntu 18.04 Installed). When I start my laptop, Ubuntu automatically boot up and everything was going fine. If I had to boot windows 10 I had to enter the boot manager and select "Windows Boot Manager" and I was happy to do that because I rarely use Windows 10.
Yesterday I upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and it broke during the upgrade and I was logged out and when I tried to login an error occurred in grey background saying "Something went wrong". I started digging into the problem and somehow I managed to upgrade my Ubuntu using tty4 terminal and rebooted my system. Now whenever I turn on my laptop grub window comes up with a list including "ubuntu". When I select ubuntu from the list it opens a new with with error message "error: you need to load the kernel first" and at the end it says "press any key to continue" and when I press any key it takes me back to the same grub window and this cycle continues.
I tried repairing grub by using boot-repair tool but nothing changed.
The only way I can boot into Ubuntu is by restarting my PC several times by pressing ctrl + alt + del. After restarting two to three times when I press "ubuntu" in grub list it boots. I have no idea why grub is behaving like this.
These are the content of boot-repair:
boot-repair-4ppa125 [20201005_1610]
============================= Boot Repair Summary ==============================
Recommended repair: __________________________________________________ __________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sda2,
using the following options: sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
/boot/efi added in sda2/fstab
sda2/boot/efi not empty
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/etc/default/grub
================= Reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of sda2 ==================
grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.04-1ubuntu26.4
efibootmgr -v from chroot before grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIMicrosoftBootbootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS......... x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
uname -r
5.4.0-48-generic
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
df /dev/sda1
mv /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bkpbootx64.efi
cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
cp /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --target=x86_64-efi --uefi-secure-boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
efibootmgr -v from chroot after grub install
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIubuntushimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(EFIMicrosoftBootbootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS......... x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(EFIBootBootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Warning: NVram was not modified.
update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-48-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-47-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-47-generic
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Boot successfully repaired.
You can now reboot your computer.
Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the The OS now in use - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS CurrentSession entry (sda1/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi file) !
============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT/bkpbootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg
sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1: The OS now in use - Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS CurrentSession on sda2
============================ Architecture/Host Info ============================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
BOOT_IMAGE of the installed session in use:
/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic root=UUID=525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e ro quiet splash
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this installed-session.
No EFI in dmseg.
SecureBoot enabled.
efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0003,0000,0004
Boot0000* UEFI Hard Drive PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1024,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,781a355c-43a6-4fee-b814-f1971d71be05,0x800,0x177000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS..... ....x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0004* UEFI ST1000LM049-2GH172 WN90LYVA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(1,32768,0)/HD(1,GPT,fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi)N.....YM....R,Y.
2895d47544fd587b26c7e29be1295c27 sda1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84 sda1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
114bd85eec32e3162958ea034020821d sda1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
dc3c47be2f78a78e5e57d097ae6c5c84 sda1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f sda1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
78415fb8fb9b909f8029858113f1335f sda1/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: __________________________________________________ __________________
sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios
sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
Partitions info (2/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): __________________________________________________ _______
sda2 : not-sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sda
sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
fdisk -l (filtered): __________________________________________________ _________
Disk sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: E7B2D43C-8526-490E-B3E0-32EBC04B1379
Start End Sectors Size Type
sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
sda2 1050624 1953523711 1952473088 931G Linux filesystem
parted -lm (filtered): __________________________________________________ _______
sda:1000GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA ST1000LM049-2GH1:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:1000GB:1000GB:ext4::;
blkid (filtered): __________________________________________________ ____________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1 vfat 2F2A-02B6 fa4ea535-2e34-4a50-9f22-1e07578a448e EFI System Partition
└─sda2 ext4 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e 92410db4-afce-47b4-9c20-32342248abb4
df (filtered): __________________________________________________ _______________
Avail Use% Mounted on
sda2 747.9G 13% /
Mount options: __________________________________________________ ________________
sda2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro
===================== sda1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Ubuntu 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-48-generic 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-47-generic 525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
========================== sda2/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=525e8d42-52d2-4b17-a8db-cd839b38ef8e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
UUID=2F2A-02B6 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
======================= sda2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="hidden"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
==================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
168.695606232 = 181.135527936 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 boot/vmlinuz 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-47-generic 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-48-generic 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 boot/vmlinuz.old 1
533.777477264 = 573.139202048 vmlinuz 1
533.707157135 = 573.063696384 vmlinuz.old 1
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 boot/initrd.img 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-47-generic 2
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-48-generic 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 boot/initrd.img.old 2
37.336772919 = 40.090054656 initrd.img 3
535.239253998 = 574.708772864 initrd.img.old 2
===================== sda2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17622 Sep 8 13:24 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42359 Sep 8 13:24 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12894 Sep 8 13:24 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Nov 11 2019 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1424 Sep 8 13:24 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Nov 11 2019 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Nov 11 2019 41_custom
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 5 14:07 backup
Link to BootInfo summary: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/bBhdXZkpww/
Any idea as to what I am doing wrong or if I am missing something?
I installed grub to /dev/sda but my ubuntu install is /dev/sda2 and I got a warning not to do it to sda2 because it was an unreliable method.
I also mounted the disk after running boot-repair. Attached are the details of mounted disks.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.