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My computer doesn't boot. I format my Toshiba laptop with a bootable USB drive. I make this my_partitions, and when i restart the computer after the installation, my computer does not boot. Then i run boot-repair and finishes with this message. I reboot ant nothing happens. I review some questions before, but could't find anything yet. Can someone help me please?

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  • You don't appear to be asking a question.
    – psusi
    Nov 9, 2017 at 2:49
  • After the installation, Ubuntu won't boot, just the bootable usb drive. I run boot-repair and this is what i got paste.ubuntu.com/25923375
    – mau
    Nov 9, 2017 at 6:59
  • @psusi can you help me?
    – mau
    Nov 9, 2017 at 7:06
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    @psusi - the question is, how do you "make your BIOS boot on sda6/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi file!"? That's not the type of thing that's shown up in any BIOS I've seen.
    – Ben Creasy
    Oct 7, 2018 at 7:11
  • The answer to my above question is probably to run something like efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --loader /EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi --label "rEFInd Boot Manager" --verbose (seen at wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/…)
    – Ben Creasy
    Oct 24, 2018 at 0:14

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There is a blog post discussing this at http://adityagilra.blogspot.com/2014/11/fixing-ubuntu-boot-problems-with-boot.html

"""You can now reboot your computer. Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sda1/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file!""" I think they just mean that: enable UEFI and set the boot order to first boot HDD in the BIOS.

But you can check using efibootmgr:

I installed efibootmgr using synaptic. (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2023086)

(If you're not root, use sudo efibootmgr -v can become root by sudo su -) root@ubuntu:~# efibootmgr -v BootOrder: 0000,0000,0000,0000 Boot0000* ubuntu HD(1,22,2faf1,d6f60eae-849f-43e3-836c-2280067f3161)File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)

According to What is the difference between grubx64 and shimx64? shimx64.efi is for Secure Boot.

As noted at the Arch Boot Process:

A boot entry could simply be a disk. In this case the firmware looks for an EFI system partition on that disk and tries to find a EFI application in the fallback boot path \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI (BOOTIA32.EFI on IA32 (32-bit) EFI systems). This is how UEFI bootable removable media work.

Honestly, the warning message should probably be removed from that boot-repair utility, altho I'm not so sure it's well-maintained.

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