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Refind boot manager fail install#
Refind boot manager fail windows#

There are two ways to do this that are relatively safe and easy.

Refind boot manager fail install#

It could be you've also got an EFI-mode GRUB and had been booting that way or maybe you had been switching between OSes by using the computer's built-in boot manager (typically accessed by hitting Esc, Enter, or a function key at start time).Īt this point, your best bet is to install an EFI-mode boot loader for Linux.

Refind boot manager fail windows#

Such a mish-mash means that you'd not be able to boot Windows from a BIOS-mode GRUB on this computer. Your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT), which means that Windows will install to and boot from this disk only in EFI mode but there's evidence of a BIOS-mode installation of GRUB, the standard Ubuntu boot loader.The same may be true of Ubuntu, too but see below.

(I've seen this happen from time to time.) OTOH, if those files are missing, then it means that Windows has failed to install its boot loader. My suspicion is that they do exist, but the script has omitted these entries.

The Boot Info Script output doesn't identify any EFI boot loaders on the ESP.

My hunch is that the ESP was created late in the machine's history - perhaps it was Ubuntu-only at one point and then you installed Windows, which created the ESP in this unusual location. The ESP holds EFI-mode boot loaders and related files. This is perfectly legal, but is unusual the ESP is normally /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2.

Your EFI System Partition (ESP) is /dev/sda4.

I doubt if this duplication is causing you any problems per se I mention it simply because it's a sign of a history of changes to the machine, and such changes may be both the cause of problems and make it difficult to figure out what's wrong. My guess is one is from your previous Windows installation and the other is for the new installation, but I can't be positive of that.

Your computer has two Windows Recovery Environment partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5.

There are some peculiarities about your installation: