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I just bought a computer with W10 pre-installed (no software supplied). I would like to keep W10 for ms office work.

The machine has 2 "hdds": a 240Gb SSD, and a 2Tb HHD.

I installed 17.10 from a "live usb".

When asked, I elected to have 17.10 installed along side of W10.

I chose the default installation disk (the larger one), and adjusted the size of the Ubuntu space to 150 mb.

(I could not figure out how to work with the manual disk installation screen, though I would have liked to put the boot, and perhaps the entire Ubuntu machine, on the SSD.)

After installation, I was directed to reboot.

My machine rebooted in W10.

I found and installed boot-repair. NoGo. The paste info from boot.repair is 26090895.

I tried reordering the boot devices, like I did to boot from the live-usb. NoGo.

(It isn't clear to me that the larger 2Tb drive shows up as a boot device in the setup screen. I selected the option of usb HDD.)

So, any suggestions as to how to fix this? I would be happy to blow away the currently allocated Ubuntu space and start over. It took about 10 minutes to install 17.10.

Thanks, Tim

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    Boot-Repair posts a fully clickable link. Please post that so we can see your configuration. What brand/model system? What video card/chip? did you install in UEFI boot mode? help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI & askubuntu.com/questions/221835/…
    – oldfred
    Dec 1, 2017 at 19:48
  • @oldfred: WRT boot-repair info, I hope you mean: paste.ubuntu.com/26090895 . I assume that will provide the needed configuration info? During Ubuntu installation, I did not see where a choice for UEFI boot mode was "made available". I know all other boot options on the motherboard startup screen are UEFI. Tim
    – DrTSPC
    Dec 2, 2017 at 1:05
  • Both Windows & Ubuntu are UEFI booting from the ESP - efi system partition on sda2. Your Ubuntu install is in sdb4. You also have nVidia and may need nomodeset until you install nVidia driver from repository. And you may need ppa to have newest drivers. What brand/model system? Can you directly boot Ubuntu from UEFI boot menu often f10 or f12, varies by brand. askubuntu.com/questions/162075/…
    – oldfred
    Dec 2, 2017 at 4:33
  • @oldfred: I just realized that a comment I thought I added . . . wasn't added. I tried changing the boot order, to no avail. (I change the boot order to run "live usb.) The system is a cyberpowerpc: GXiVR8140A, Intel i7-8700K, 16 Gb DDR4 2400, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080 8Gb. I just edited my original question, in an attempt to add files (specs, gparted screen shots), but copy/paste doesn't seem to work. May I ask: How would I go about getting files from my file system on the forum? Finally, my take from gparted is that a second boot partition (?) on the harddrive @ /dev/sdb3.
    – DrTSPC
    Dec 2, 2017 at 21:00
  • If a larger amount of info better to use pastebin site, like Boot-Repair does. You can copy & paste terminal output and then need to preserve formatting. Are you using nomodeset? Just about required until you install nVidia driver & you will need ppa for newest driver. askubuntu.com/questions/61396/… Do not really need gparted screen shots as Boot-Repair report shows all partitions and lots of details. If changed post new report in first post.
    – oldfred
    Dec 2, 2017 at 21:46

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