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    UEFI menu, duplicate entries

    I've installed 12.0.4 alongside windows 8 on a UEFI based system.

    It boots into Linux fine from its menu and it boots into Windows 8 if I pick the third option on the menu - which doesn't have a sensible name

    I also have lots of menu entries that seem to be duplicates.

    So how can I get rid of those duplicate entries and change the oddly titled menu entry to boot Win 8

    Here's my boot info

    http://paste.ubuntu.com/5638437/
    Last edited by Stephen_at; March 23rd, 2013 at 08:25 PM. Reason: Setting it to solved because hard drive failed

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    Re: UEFI menu Madness

    I should possibly point out that in the UEFU boot settings in the BIOS menu I see two linux boot options and two Windows boot options which ties in with the fact that the info from boot repair sees two partitons ( sda2 and sda3) with boot entries on them

    The Boot menu has these options:

    Ubuntu
    Advanced Options for Ubuntu
    Windows UEFI recovery bootmgfw.efi
    Windows Boot UEFI Recovery
    Windows UEFI recovery bootmgfw.efi sda3
    Windows UEFI recovery sda3
    Windows EUFI recovery LrsBootmgr.efi
    Windows Boot UEFI recoverry bootx64.efi
    Windows Boot UEFI recoverry bootx64.efi sda7
    Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda3)
    Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda5)
    System setup


    If I can't get rid of the extras I'd like to rename "Windows UEFI recovery bootmgfw.efi" (item 3) to Windows 8
    Last edited by Stephen_at; March 23rd, 2013 at 10:44 AM.

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    Re: UEFI menu, duplicate entries

    All the entries in 25_custom were created by Boot-Repair by finding efi files on your system. The files that say on sda3 or on sda5 are from grub2's os-prober which has a bug and creates BIOS type entries that will not work with UEFI.
    grub2's os-prober creates wrong style (BIOS) chain boot entry
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...2/+bug/1024383
    type of entry from Boot-Repair that should work.
    'Windows UEFI loader'
    Type of entry that does not work:
    'Windows ...) (on /dev/sdXY)'


    You can turn off os-prober (maybe when bug is fixed you can turn it back on?) to eliminate the last two entries.
    gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
    GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
    or turn off executable bit
    sudo chmod a-x /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
    # Then do:
    sudo update-grub

    Because all the entries in 25_custom were created by Boot-Repair you can edit at will. I might back it up in case you need an entry to get into recovery later, but you can delete all but the one Windows entry that works and rename it anything you like.

    sudo cp -a /etc/grub.d/25_custom /etc/grub.d/bkup25_custom
    gksudo gedit /etc/grub.d/25_custom
    Then do:
    sudo update-grub

    Your sda2 partition ( D473-6C3C) is the efi partition and sda3 has recovery boot files in it. So you may not need recovery files normally and can delete all boot stanzas refering to that UUID.

    /dev/sda2 2,050,048 2,582,527 532,480 EFI System partition
    /dev/sda3 2,582,528 4,630,527 2,048,000 -

    /dev/sda2 D473-6C3C vfat SYSTEM_DRV
    /dev/sda3 E873-C276 vfat LRS_ESP
    Last edited by oldfred; March 23rd, 2013 at 06:01 PM.
    UEFI boot install & repair info - Regularly Updated :
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295
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    Re: UEFI menu, duplicate entries

    Its all moot - it crashed in Win8 and went into recovery which failed and got stuck in a loop and wouldn't boot into any sort of recovery mode. So I no longer have the laptop

    Frankly this whole UEFI mess needs to be sorted out - right now its looking like Microsoft are winning. Having to install ubuntu and then install boot-repair manually is frankly a bit of a fiasco, and with a "Critical" bug in Grub which is still unassigned after 8 months which involves you having to edit files to fix messes it looks like its not going to get any better any time soon.

    We need to have it so it just works... but unfortunately the "just hack things about and edit things" reputation of Linux seems to be very much to the fore here.
    Last edited by Stephen_at; March 23rd, 2013 at 08:28 PM.

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