Questions tagged [uefi]
For questions about the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, commonly used in later x86 computers as a replacement of BIOS, as well as in ARM servers and more. UEFI supports booting with and without Secure Boot enabled and legacy booting via CSM.
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Windows 10 will not boot after Ubuntu installation on MacBook Air
Sick of macOS therefore I wanted to install dual boot of
Win 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 on a MacBook Air mid 2013 model.
Windows is installed and configured to boot via UEFI.
Ubuntu is installed and ...
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UEFI Firmware Setting not opening itself and Grub menu is not opening in startup to boot directly in Ubuntu
I have Installed Ubuntu alongside windows 10 by a startup from USB and It is installed perfectly and I got reboot now option. When I rebooted nothing happened and Windows automatically boots itself.
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Installing Dell from zero
I'm starting with Linux from zero, with no idea. The kind of person that always use Windows in a simple way. So for this I format a Dell notebook, and install Ubuntu. But a lot of things happen in the ...
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Ubuntu EFI boot entry created on its own, even if just booting Live-USB
On my Windows 10 laptop, (UEFI Secure boot), I can boot from Ubuntu18:04 live-USB, successfully. I don't actually install Ubuntu ( I choose "Try Ubuntu"). Still, when I reboot (after proper Shutdown ...
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Ubuntu sometime has lost connection to usb thumbdrive bootable device
need your help to advise for my problem.
my machine config : CPU Intel Celeron coffee lake 4 Gb ram, bios AMI
my ubuntu config : Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 4.15.0-47
my problem is, sometimes my machine ...
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After resizing root and home partition it is stuck on emergency mode during boot
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS on my machine, it is fully dedicated and standalone with no other operating system on it.
Using an Ubuntu Live Disk and Gparted, I recently shrinked the size of my root ...
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Which package to choose for a bug report about annoying beeps during BIOS update?
So far, I installed two BIOS updates from within Ubuntu 18.10 for a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 which worked great (awesome that this is now supported by Ubuntu).
However, during the update the laptop beeps ...
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Multiple problems with dual boot intallation
I recently bought a new laptop, an Acer AN515-51 with a 250GB M.2 WD Black SSD and a 1TB WD Blue HDD. I'm having multiple problems with Ubuntu 18.04 installation.
As always I created an empty ...
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UEFI only laptop (no legacy boot) says no operating system found
I am attempting to change the HP Envy x2 over to Lubuntu but I am having a bit of a struggle. When I start the computer it says it does not detect any operating system (I created a bootable USB using ...
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Getting GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition” while using Boot Repair
I'm trying to get my system setup for dual boot on 2 different SSDs on my system. One of the SSDs is an NVMe SSD. I can select and boot each one using the boot menu inside my BIOS, so the ...
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messed up bootloader while dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04
I tried to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Windows 10 was already installed and I made a separate partition and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04 on it.
The installation was successful but now I ...
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Ubuntu Budgie freezes during installation
I've been trying to install Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 (downloaded from the official site), but the installation freezes whenever i reach the place where i have to do Disk Partition. None of the partitions i ...
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Mac Mini 2.1 (32bit EFI / 64bit CPU) Ubuntu 18.04.2 Server - GRUB reports unknown filesystem
All the instructions I can find only deal with Ubuntu 16.04 and older. So my steps are probably wrong for 18.04 - for now I'm using the instructions found here: https://heeris.id.au/2014/ubuntu-plus-...
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Cannot boot from Ubuntu USB installation without using Windows
I am wondering if anyone can help.
What I want to achieve:
Have Ubuntu installed on a USB stick to use on a laptop, but also as a portable installation, if necessary.
I want my main laptop (a HP ...
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Installed Ubuntu 18.10 without configuring UEFI on Windows 10, now can not boot into Windows
please could you help, I recently installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my windows 10 machine without configuring the UEFI settings on windows,upon installing ubuntu I opted for something-else in the installation ...
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Second M2 ssd is not recognized if ubuntu is booted under UEFI
I accidentally installed ubuntu 6 months ago under legacy and since then I have been loading windows and ubuntu sing legacy boot. I got a new m2 ssd recently and installed in Windows and decided to ...
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Nvidia driver with secure boot password enabled and no display at all
I recently installed the Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 18.04, there was an option to enable secure boot with UEFI; I set up a password and after installing the driver, I restarted the desktop. Now, there ...
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FWUPD Dell XPS 13 9370
I have a Dell XPS 13 9370 with NVME SSD and I am running Ubuntu 18.10, GNOME 3.30.1.
I am running Firmware 1.6.3 and want to update to the recently released 1.7.3. Unfortunately fwupd doesn't ...
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How do I get Secure Boot keys enrollment instructions for my firmware?
I have Dell XPS 8700, and I can't figure out which file extension for keys is acceptable. After a few tries of enrolling PKs, the PC won't boot at all, so I have to reset BIOS setup. The local Dell ...
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Undo bcdedit set from uefi or ubuntu
I'm trying to install ubuntu in dual boot along with windows 10. I have two hard disks. Windows is already installed in disk0. Then I installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS in disk0 after windows. Both were ...
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Preseeding No physical volume defined in volume group
A couple of weeks ago I asked about configuring Ubuntu preseed to configure LVM partitions. I got no response to that one.
I was able to figure out how to get logical volumes defined for UEFI within ...
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How to add Windows XP to GRUB2 menu
I have a Dell Dimension 5150 with a Pentium D 820 (I know it's outdated but I received this from a friend as a Christmas gift.)
I have 2 hard disks in this desktop:
A 500GB 2.5' laptop HDD with ...
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Ubuntu Live USB deletes folders on boot
Pretty much first time user of Ubuntu here.
So I downloaded the ISO (file name ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso) and also Rufus 3.4. I then wrote the ISO to a 64GB micro SD card through Rufus.
Rufus ...
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Couldn't get UEFI db list and more errors after system cheking in progress on disk `
I have seen some questions on this related error and have tried the correspondent answers, but it has not worked in my case.
I have only ubuntu 18.04 installed in the machine. First, the following ...
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Why don't I have "free space" when I have to make partitions to install Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 10? I created free space on Windows
I'm trying to put dual boot on my computer and install Ubuntu along with Windows. I don't have free space when I have to create partitions and also uefi is missing, I can't access boot menu. (I create ...
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Can't Get Ubuntu 18.04 To Install Alongside Windows 10
I seem to be having trouble getting Ubuntu 18.04 to install on my Windows 10 system. My laptop is an MSI GE72 Apache Pro 6QD with two drives, a primary SDD where I have Windows installed, and a HDD ...
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How to restore missing missing chainloader in dual boot setup
I installed windows successfully on a blank Dell laptop then installed Ubutnu 18.04 from a pen drive successfully. I was hoping this would create a dual boot system.
When I restart I first see a ...
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Interrupted Ubuntu installation and deleted(?) GRUB
I have made an attempt to install Ubuntu 18.10, overwriting existing Ubuntu 15.10. There is also Windows 7 on this PC. The installation taken very long (around 6h) and did not complete. During it the ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu installation from USB drive
I've installed Ubuntu on a USB drive using another Ubuntu Live USB.
I've formatted that drive with a single partition and mount point /.
The Live USB then fully installed Ubuntu there, and it ...
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Another instance of "grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory."
I get the error in the subject line whenever I try to update software packages in Ubuntu 18.04. The relevant lines are:
Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.93.8+2.02-2ubuntu8.7) ...
Installing for ...
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How to make secure boot using Grub2 and UEFI?
I am using micro computer embedded board.I am using ubuntu image for it.
Recently I learn about UEFI for secure boot mechanism.
How can I use UEFI with Grub2 in order to implement secure boot of Linux ...
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Rebuild Boot Setup Bios in efibootmgr
Could you help me? I was trying to get delete an obsolete input from Ubuntu in bios through efibootmgr. I ended up deleting the bios / uefi setup from my samsung laptop and I can not recover it. I ...
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Ubuntu fails to install everytime while installing the grub can anyome shed some light?
I had a dual booot with Windows 10 and elementary, I also have a SSD in which windows 10 was installed and elementary was installed on a HDD. When I tried to install the new elementary distribution by ...
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*dual boot* windows didn't do anything after selected in grub
my problem prety much same like this thread *Grub* Windows 10 doesn't start anymore
i've tried the solution on that post but i can't find any chainloader +1 there and if in my file is another ...
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Force UEFI Issue for Installing Ubuntu 16.04 on Lenovo Legion Y730 - Windows 10
I am experiencing quite a few issues trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a dual boot option on my Lenovo Legion Y730 laptop. It is my first time going through with an Ubuntu install so I've been ...
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GRUB2 stopped detecting Windows 10
For a few restarts GRUB detected Windows but it suddenly stopped detecting Windows. I have no idea how this thing works, but basically I have Windows 10 on /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda1 should be Windows ...
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Lenovo Ideapad 330 dual booting problem
I am having problem while dual booting my Lenovo ideapad 330, currently installed with Windows 10 using usb flash drive.
It shows the error message:
[ 10.682893] Problem loading UEFI:db X.509 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 can not find hard drives or Windows
I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10 Pro on my new Lenovo P920 ThinkStation, however I have some problems which I think is related to mounting of the hard drive.
Windows works ...
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lenovo 330s Ryzen error installing ubuntu 18.04
When i try to install ubuntu the screen freeze in black, but i could installed it with "noapic" and "idle=nowait", it instaled and, but when i try to open ubuntu it doesn´t open, the screen freeze in ...
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Install Ubuntu 18.04 Server with Hardware RAID1 configuration on Intel Nuc Skull Canyon
I am trying to install Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS server with hardware RAID1 on Skull Canyon (NUC6i7KYK). SSDs for RAID are two identical Samsung 970 Pro 1Tb.
In first step i updated bios of Skull ...
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installi ubuntu 18.04 on acer aspire s7-391
i'm trying to install ubuntu 18.04 64bit version on an acer s7-391, it is an ultrabook with a 128GB ssd hdd in raid 0.
After the installation, i receive the message no bootable device found.
Here ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu on HP omen 15 laptop
I bought the new HP omen 15 laptop with windows 10 x64 pre-installed and I have problems while installing linux. I made 2 partitions on my laptop . A 15Gb partition on my ssd for "/" and another 85Gb ...
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Black screen, no grub, dual boot
I have just installed the latest version of Ubuntu from a USB alongside Windows 10.
I am unable to boot into Ubuntu. I get a black screen. Neither Esc nor Shift will cause the grub menu to load.
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HP EliteBook 8570p Ubuntu grub is not launched
I have recently installed a dual boot on my EliteBook, and it works, except for the fact that the grub isn't automatically loading.
When I turn on my computer, it goes back and forth indefinitely ...
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Re-installing GRUB to external boot drive
I am trying to make a full installation of Ubuntu 18.04 on an external drive and make the installation bootable on my Macbook Air (early 2014) without using rEFInd.
I was following this tutorial: ...
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Recent instructions for mdadm RAID-1 and LUKS setup on UEFI systems
I have been trying to find a recent document on installing Ubuntu (18.04 preferred) using mdadm RAID-1 mirrors and LUKS underneath mdadm. The main point of using LUKS under the mdadm layer is that ...
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Grub2 failing to install alongside Windows 10
The thing is if I run ubiquity -b the installation goes fine but I am still unable to use boot-repair after this when logging in the Live CD and mounting the device. I also cannot boot with Windows F8 ...
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Can't boot to Ubuntu after deleting swap partition
I dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Space on my SSD was getting a little cramped so I wanted to delete my large swap partition and use a swapfile instead like in the default installation. I ...
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How do I get my Ubuntu install (in dual boot) to boot using UEFI?
I installed Xubuntu on my PC to set up a Windows VM with gpu pass-through for games. I checked to see if my PC is using uefi with /sys/firmware/efi.
The folder is missing so I tried to use
sudo apt ...
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Failed to load image \EFI\ubuntu\grubefi: Volume Corrupt
Everything was working fine until today when I didn't get GNU GRUB and it automatically took me to Windows.
I checked many articles and followed this one
https://itsfoss.com/no-grub-windows-linux/
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