Originally Posted by
oldfred
You have to be consistent.
If you want UEFI boot you must have the ESP - efi system partition.
Or if you want BIOS you must have the bios_grub partition.
I have been told both things by Boot-Repair, so I've created both partitions.
Originally Posted by
oldfred
If it still cannot see efi partition, I might delete & recreate. If it has any efi files in it back those up first. It must be FAT32 formatted and with boot flag.
Yup. I deleted the EFI partition during the clean install, tried to boot and it wouldn't work. So I launched Boot Repair which told me to recreate it. Boot Repair still can't see the new, blank EFI partition (screenshot attached).
Originally Posted by
oldfred
Did you run the sgdisk commands?
sudo sgdisk -v /dev/sda
Yup. It says no errors.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo sgdisk -v /dev/sda
No problems found. 2016656378 free sectors (961.6 GiB) available in 4
segments, the largest of which is 2016651264 (961.6 GiB) in size.
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