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Questions about using grub on EFI/UEFI systems relating to configuring, installing or removing grub from EFI/UEFI partitions.

Questions about using grub on EFI/UEFI systems relating to configuring, installing or removing grub from EFI/UEFI partitions.

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How to return from grub prompt to the grub menu?

If you press escape in grub menu you end up at the grub command prompt. My question is, how can I go back to the menu, without rebooting?
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How can I change/convert a Ubuntu MBR drive to a GPT, and make Ubuntu boot from EFI?

I recently have upgraded my PC, my new Motherboard (ASUS M5A99X EVO) uses UEFi instead of the regular MBR option. I have a Ubuntu 11.10 installation that I did when I had my previous hardware (MSI MS 7267) , Ubuntu alone boots fine, and so does…
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accidentally deleted EFI partition, system is still running!

I am running Ubuntu 20.04, I accidentally deleted the EFI partition (Damn GParted!) The system is still running. Can I create a new partition in the now UNUSED area, set the EFI flag and boot flag, and then just run update-grub? Will update-grub…
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Impossible to update UEFI dbx

My Ubuntu (20.04) Software is prompting a new firmware available: UEFI dbx 77--> 217 (?), but when I try to update I receive the following error message: Impossible to update UEFI dbx. Blocked executable in the ESP, ensure grub and shim are up to…
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Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade failure concerning grub-efi-amd64-signed

I got this error when running the upgrade on 2021-05-02 as proposed by the system: grub-efi-amd64-signed: Depends: grub2-common (>= 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.31) but 2.04-1ubuntu26.11 is to be installed
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How to install Ubuntu server with UEFI and RAID1 + LVM

I used to install my servers with LVM over software RAID1, and grub install on the MBR of both drives. Now I have an UEFI server, and the compatibility (BIOS) mode does not seem to work. So I went the way of installing with UEFI. First test, single…
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Invalid EFI file path

i've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my new laptop ( with Win7 64bit pre installed ) in EFI mode and now i can't load Win7 anymore ( Ubuntu just loads fine from grub ). When i select the Windows 7 entry in the grub menu, i get this error: Invalid EFI…
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How do I install two independent Ubuntu installations on a single hard drive with UEFI?

For security reasons I would like to install a secondary completely independent operating system on a single-hard-drive computer using UEFI. Both installations should be able using different LUKS crypto partitions as root device (LVM on top of…
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Errors during upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 (shim-signed and grub-efi-amd64-signed)

After running sudo do-release-upgrade this morning to upgrade my system from Ubtunu 17.10 to 18.04 LTS, I encountered errors during the upgrade. The trace is too long to post in it's entirety, but here is the part that (to me) looks like the…
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Restore Apple bootloader on an (Intel) Mac after an update-grub was run by an external Ubuntu installation

I have Ubuntu installed on an external HDD, and I use it as a portable install that I can take with me wherever I go. Today I booted it on a friend's iMac, and after Software Updater asked me to install updates. So I did. Since at that point I was…
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How to check if I'm using GRUB-EFI or GRUB-PC?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 in a chroot on ChromeOS, which uses a UEFI system. In order to install WinUSB to create recovery media for Windows, I had to change grub-efi-amd64 to grub-pc. WinUSB performed this process for me. To my knowledge this would…
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Move bootloader or remove efi partition in second drive

I'm new here so I apologize in advance if my question is not formally correct. I have a dual boot system, on two different disks. Windows was pre-installed on the first drive (500 Gb), then I installed ubuntu 20.04 on the second 1 Tb drive following…
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grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory

Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System /dev/sda2 1050624 837228543 836177920 398.7G Linux filesystem /dev/sda3 1452748800 1465147391 12398592 5.9G Linux…
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How to safely remove Windows from EFI (and GRUB)

I can find a lot of information on the opposite (removing Ubuntu from a dual boot) but not how to remove Windows from a dual boot. I did this once before and then I just deleted the whole EFI partition, however, that was a bad decision (also…
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How do I get the grub menu to show on a MacBook?

I've installed Ubuntu 19.10 on my MacBook (Mid-2010 a.k.a. Macbook7,1) as the only OS. Right now my system is working but it has a few issues. One of those issues is that I can't seem to get GRUB to show a menu no matter what I do. Right now, this…
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