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I had a dual boot (windows 10 and Ubuntu 16) on a dell laptop. I removed the windows partition and extended the Ubuntu one. Since I cannot boot Ubuntu.

I tried reinstalling GRUB with boot-repair. I cannot install it in UEFI mode: I created a fat32 partition with boot and esp flag. When I run oot-repair I get:

GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition (>1MB, unformatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). This can be performed via tools such as Gparted. Then try again.

I succeeded installing GRUB in BIOS mode. When I reboot the laptop GRUB starts but Ubuntu won't.

See below the boot info summary from boot-repair with the fat32 parition: https://paste.ubuntu.com/23823238/

Does anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks

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  • What I would do is just perform a clean install of Ubuntu in BIOS mode, choosing the "erase disk and install Ubuntu" option in the installer. It is possible to reinstall without losing your data; see my answer on that here: askubuntu.com/a/841310/518562
    – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
    Jan 18, 2017 at 18:14
  • Do what Boot-Repair wants you to do: 'Please create a BIOS-Boot partition (>1MB, unformatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). This can be performed via tools such as Gparted. Then try again.'
    – sudodus
    Jan 18, 2017 at 18:18
  • @sudodus, I did something like boot-repair asked, but I couldn't put a flag without formatting the partition. And a BIOS-Boot partition is for legacy boot mode. I'd like to do it in UEFI. if it's possible.
    – Yoan
    Jan 18, 2017 at 18:24

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After hours, I finally figured out how to create a boot partition in EFI.

  1. Create a fat32 partition of more or less 200 MB
  2. Flag it with boot and esp
  3. Then copy the folder "/EFI/Boot/" from liveUSB to this boot partition. The partition needs two files (grubx64.efi and bootx64.efi).
  4. Reboot the system without USB. From what I understood, during the boot, the system will add variables that are needed by grub-install (used by boot-repair).
  5. Reboot with USB
  6. Then run boot-repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair)

And it should work ;-)

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