Ubuntu Dual Boot UEFI vs Legacy Boot Issues

Question

A little background, I’m trying to install xubuntu on my mom’s laptop HP Envy17 Windows 7. Initially, I was having issues installing and found a fix where I setup a 200MB EFI partition. I’ve managed to install xubuntu; however, booting is not straight forward.

Upon booting the system, I get the following error:here

To boot into ubuntu my current workaround is to enter Startup Menu> Boot Device options>Boot From EFI File >Enter This directory

EFI>ubuntu>grubx64.efi > boots ubuntu.

2 Issues:

1. This is not straight forward enough for my mom to follow. She is not tech savy at all.
2. I can’t seem to locate how to boot into the windows drive I’ve left on the system.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a snapshot of my hd partitions. I went kind of nuts creating, root, home, and swap and may have made a mistake.

Also here is a snapshot of my bootorder in my bios incase this would be helpful too.

Answer 1

I would suggest trying to use the boot-repair utility from an Ubuntu distro (there is a chance it might not work, it will also warn you if the boot partition is too far away from the start of the drive, some older BIOS stuff won't look at the whole drive)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

If this doesn't work and your device is actually UEFI only, rEFInd might just work.