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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Kernel Panic Dell Computer

My grandfather is an engineer and has ran ubuntu on many of his computers for years. He found this computer and recrafted it with 8RAM, an amazing battery, and got it to run Ubuntu. I have had it for ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 asking for TPM recovery key on every boot after firmware update

As the title says, I'm using Ubuntu 23.10 with the newly introduced TPM based FDE, i got a firmware update (for UEFI dbx) the other day so i did the update, then after reboot it asked me to enter TMP ...
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No operating system found Error 1962

Have read quite a few topics on this but found not solution for me. I am a Windows Guru, no Linux experience. Building a Ubuntu box for my grandson. I can boot and select the USB with Ubuntu install. ...
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Replacing PopOS with Ubuntu - how to partition [duplicate]

I need to replace PopOs on my machine with Ubuntu and trying to figure out how to partition the disk. I have 2 physical disk: 0.5T with boot PopOS and 2T with the Windows. There are EFI partition on ...
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How to install xubuntu 23.10 in non-UEFI machine

I´m trying to install xubuntu-23.10-minimal on my HP Compaq 8000 Elite USDT. According to this: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/does-my-hp-elite-8000-sff-pc-...
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Laptop refusing to boot from USB

Hello and thank you for taking your time to read about my problem! About the device I use: Microsoft Surface Laptop Windows 11 Home, 22H2 i5-11300H 16 GB RAM 64-Bit OS My Problem: I wanted to have a ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 cannot boot - stuck in emergency mode

Ubuntu does not boot. First timed happened after a freeze that required a hard shutdown. You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "...
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"Clean ***/*** files, ***/*** blocks" shows with WMI/WDG on boot, but it boots sucessfully

Each time I boot Ubuntu, this message shows up on my laptop screen below errors and failures, with my HDD making noise for several seconds. However, each time it does not stick boot. The word "...
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External ubuntu does not boot on one machine

I installed Ubuntu 22.04.03 onto an external m.2. It boots up fine on the machine it was created on and on another machine, but not on a third machine. On the third machine it starts booting, then the ...
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I think I deleted grub bootloader

I have a dual boot system with Windows 10. This morning, I formatted an external hard drive via Mini Tool Partition on Windows and powered off my PC. But now I can't boot into Ubuntu. I can boot in ...
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Ubuntu on external drive only boots up on the machine it was created on

I'm trying to create a external m.2 with ubutnu on it. On the external disk I created a new partition table using GPT and 3 partitions: efi partition, fat32, flagged boot and esp swap partition, linux-...
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Upgrade Ubuntu: What are the consequences of the decision hold old grub config or not?

Upgrade of Ubuntu to the currently most recent version: What are the consequences of the decision hold old grub config or not? I have decided to hold the old grub config. As a result, the Windows ...
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how to change bios mode from legacyto UEFI mode?

Currently, my operating system is windows 10. I want to dual boot ubuntu and windows 10. Since the current drive didn’t have enough space I added another ssd drive. When I was installing ubuntu, I ...
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I can't boot, what can I do

I recently install 23.10, everything was ok. Today my laptop wont boot, I can acces Grub and UEFI settings, but can't boot in recovery mode. After some research it seems to be a ramdisk corrupted. But ...
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No dual boot after UEFI lock of the hard drive

I have an account here, but the password is on my ubuntu which I can't access ^^. I have an old windows 10 computer and I had a dual boot with ubuntu 22.04. Ok so I tried several things on my ubuntu ...
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How to fix repeated freezes and crashes in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS?

I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on a new Lenovo Ideapad 3 17IRU7 with 8 GB memory. I'm experiencing two types of crashes repeatedly every day: Libre Office crashes when I use Alt-Tab to ...
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How can I tell if the USB Installer created by Startup Disk Creator is UEFI?

I want to do a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04 on a 2TB NVMe SSD, and I want to create the partitions manually and install the OS in UEFI. Just wanting to know if the default USB installer that Startup ...
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I can't use the Ubuntu and can't dualboot

I have 2 questions. This is the story: I wanted to dualboot Windows 11 and Ubuntu 23.10. I booted with a usb-stick in the installer and set ubuntu up as install alongside windows. After I did that it ...
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System not Booting into Ubuntu 22.04.3 After Creating Swap Partition

I was trying to create a swap partition on my Ubuntu 23.04.3 which eventually worked out just fine, but after powering off the system and powering it back on a few times after use, I discovered I ...
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DBX firmware update and corrupted bios

everyone, Last week, I updated the DBX firmware to 371 from Ubuntu on Aspire A515-43. So, when I updated the dbx, my laptop froze (Ubuntu OS), which led me to perform a forced shutdown via the power ...
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NVMe SSD can't be selected as boot option

I was using my windows pc all and well but suddenly windows stopped working. I have a usb bootable Ubuntu and with this I wanted to extract my files before formatting the SSD completely but for some ...
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DBX Secure boot keys and windows time boot

Last week, i installed DBX Firmware update through ubuntu 23.10 update, but after that, i still face problem with restart windows os which take long time to boot. So, is the dbx have relation to this ...
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Could not create MokListRT Volume full Boot impossible

I upgraded yesterday to ubuntu 23.10 (from immediately preceding version) Upgrade normal with no reported errors via terminal. Restart immediately after upgrade normal in version 23.10 Just after ...
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How do I change the partition format that was accidentally changed to MBR back to GPT?

The first time my storage looked like this: because I'm dual booting Ubuntu with Windows. but accidentally my hard disk ends up like this: After I checked with gdisk I got something like this: HGST ...
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Windows 10 missing from Grub

I have noticed from Ubuntu 23.04 that my Windows 10 has vanished from Grub. Now, I have tried updating Grub and I have tried also setting os-prober to false, but no such luck. Yes, before anyone asks ...
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Secure Boot dbx Configuration Update 77 - 371 Ubuntu 23.10

I've a message starting popping up after the upgrade to 23.10 from 23.04, that I've got some updates. Turned out that this is that in the sub. Tried to update and it fails. This is what I've got ...
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Ubuntu boot problem, I think it's partition

After I chose Ubuntu in grub 2.06 I saw this error:
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Ubuntu not powering off

I recently installed ubuntu 23.10.1 on my pc on another ssd. It works fine except that it DOES NOT restart or shutdown. Everything comes to an halt after a few seconds of the power off button but the ...
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grub-efi purge is cancelled, dual-boot with Windows

I ran out of space for my Ubuntu OS and decided to extend it by unallocating space from Windows OS partition and assigning it to Ubuntu. Ubuntu worked right afterwards but Windows won't boot up. ...
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How can I dismiss "Software Updates Installed" notification - the saga continues

The problem described in this article How can I dismiss "Software Updates Installed" notification continues to plague me and the fixes in that article do not work in my case. I hope someone ...
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Enable secure boot on an already installed dual boot system

I am unable to enable secure boot on my system. Please help me enable it, without bricking my pc :) Pc info: HP laptop Dual boot Windows 11 (I bypassed secure-boot check to install it) Ubuntu ...
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grub-install fails at the end of ubuntu 22.04 installation on a UEFI based HP PROBOOK with preinstalled WINDOWS 11

I am trying to install (DUAL BOOT) UBUNTU 22.04 LTS on my UEFI based HP PROBOOK with preinstalled WINDOWS 11. grub-install fails at the end of ubuntu 22.04 installation. Grub install fails with NO ...
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Dual boot not working, grub doesn't appear in BIOS

I have an old ASRock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard that appears to only support UEFI boot. I'm currently running Windows 10. I want to set up a dual boot system with Ubuntu 22.04, however despite several ...
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Warning message in command line

When I use 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade' command, everything is normal. But at the end of the process lines of messages appear Memtest86+ needs a 16-bit boot, that is not available on ...
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Grub on RAID1 - no such cyptodisk found

My friend has a motherboard with a dual NVMe SSD slot configured in software RAID1 using mdadm. We have installed Ubuntu Studio successfully in the past. Working past configuration: lsblk NAME ...
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22.04 install wiped 4 partitions leaving one with type ee GPT

This is very frustrating, as i had manually partitioned /dev/sda a 2T barracuda. I had four partitions : /dev/sda1 grub boot (size 10Mb) /dev/sda2 EFI type unknown (size 1024 Mb) /dev/sda3 swap ...
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Prevent grub-install from trying to update nvram when triggered by apt

On my machine running focal, grub-install fails if I don't pass it the --no-nvram flag. This is fine and I'm not looking for a way to fix that. However, whenever apt updates my kernel or grub or ...
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Grub configuration issue on persistance install of Ubuntu

I have a old Atom based Asus Laptop which the emmc storage has died in. To continue using it I have been attempting to boot from a persistance USB. This is my process To make it boot (due to the ...
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Why does my system come up in the UEFI instead of Ubuntu 22.04 now?

Background My system has been chugging along for a year (or more) and recently, after re-boot, Ubuntu 22.04 did not come up and eventually it settled inside the UEFI BIOS. Hitting ESC at boot takes me ...
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Which OS type should I set in Asus UEFI BIOS utility?

I want to install Ubuntu. The utility shows two options: Windows UEFI mode and Other OS. Respective info text says: Configure system as UEFI/Legacy mode.
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Unable to change UEFI boot order on Windows dual boot computer

I’ve just installed Ubuntu on an old Windows laptop. On boot it always boots into Windows. If I go into the UEFI boot configuration then the options are Windows, Ubuntu, and EFI.But there doesn’t seem ...
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Can't install UEFI ubuntu

I burned the 22.04.3 version of ubuntu to my disc as gpt in rufus. I boot from flashtan and when I press "try or install ubuntu" it stays on the black screen. secure boot is on on my system. ...
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Add mac efi partition from sdb (second disk) to efi boot order with efibootmgr

I am on ubuntu 20.04 (server no gui) and have two phyiscals disks (sda, sdb) The computer is a mac mini from year 2010 with only ubuntu installed, no macos. As this is my home server i want to make a ...
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Ubuntu Starts to a black screen with UFW error

I have Ubuntu 20.04(I believe) installed on an old HP Compaq 8200 that I use for projects and whatnot and I've had an issue of it not booting properly. When I turn it on, it does the HP boot, an error ...
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How do I get my laptop keyboard to work again?

Hardware: Toshiba Satellite L870-18v For a few weeks now my laptop keyboard has not worked and I was wondering if there was some way to get it working again. At the moment, I have to use a usb ...
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Trying to reinstall grub after Windows update messed it up

I'm unable to enter into my Ubuntu after I updated my Windows 11. The bootloader stopped showing and the system directly boots into Windows. I tried to perform the recommended option of Boot-Repair ...
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Boot from live USB on PRO B550M-VC WIFI

I have a fresh build based on the MSI PRO B550M-VC WIFI motherboard. I've installed the latest BIOS and I'm trying to install Ubuntu 22.04.3 on it via live USB. I know the USB works because I've used ...
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apt shim package

I noticed in the APT repo there is both shim and shim-signed. I'm wondering what the purpose of the shim package is? Can it be used to insert a db certificate into the boot process? I'm looking for an ...
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grubx64.efi made with grub-mkstandalone fails to start under SecureBoot

Using Ubuntu 20.4 with GRUB2 2.04, Shim 15.7 (I think) I've been following the Simon Ruderich guide to "Secure Boot with GRUB 2 and signed Linux images and initrds" When booting with the ...
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Ubuntu Installer Stuck and Wont Boot

A bit of background: I've recently tried to install Ubuntu as a dual boot to replace my NixOS system. I currently have a NixOS/Windows 11 setup, and I wish to make it an Ubuntu/Windows 11 setup. Now, ...
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