I have ubuntu 14.10 installed on a pendrive in legacy mode. I can use it to boot my desktop and tablet in legacy mode, but not UEFI. Is there any way to make it bootable in UEFI mode? For example, adding an EFI partition and copying grub2 to it? Thanks! Answer You’re on the right … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question Recently I download for one of your torrents download option a 64bits copy of Ubuntu 14.04.2: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KRWPCX3SJUM4IMM4YF5RPHL6ANPYTQPU&dn=ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.ubuntu.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fipv6.torrent.ubuntu.com%3a6969%2fannounce This magnetic link … Read more
I once installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 8. I then removed Ubuntu by formatting the partition. Ubuntu was gone but the grub remained. Should I remove grub before installing Ubuntu again? Answer No, you shouldn’t remove it. Your current GRUB will be simply overwritten. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Chandan , Answer Author : … Read more
I just installed Kubuntu on an Acer Aspire V3 netbook with a SSD using GPT and the following partition layout: 1 MB unformatted partition with boot_grub flag, 200 MB FAT32 partition with boot flag, 2GB swap partition, 20 GB ext4 partition, 90 GB ext4 partition. The netbook fails to detect my EFI partition. When I … Read more
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a laptop which came with Windows 8 installed. It was working fine for almost a year and I was able to boot Ubuntu and Windows from grub screen but from few days Windows is not booting and showing following error: error: symbol grub_efi_find_last_device_path not found. Press any key to … Read more
I have installed Windows 7 and then Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer but no grub menu came up on reboot and it went straight into Windows. I then removed the Ubuntu created partitions and tried Fedora 16 – it created slightly different partitions – which worked (grub menu was shown). Not wanting to keep Fedora, … Read more
A recent security (?) update in 14.10 Utopic Unicorn caused “apt-get dist-upgrade” in Ubuntu 14.10 to try to remove package “grub-efi-amd64”, and replace it with package “grub-pc”. I use grub-efi to boot in UEFI mode, which at least originally was not compatible with the plain “grub-pc” without “grub-efi”. Thus, I am a bit wary to … Read more
Recently I deleted Ubuntu gnome desktop from my new laptop dual booting with windows 8 and also repaired the start up so that it would go to windows automatically. However now I want to install Ubuntu Mate 15.10 with my usb, I burned its iso file to my usb using Unetbootin and it works fine … Read more
I need to customize the grub.cfg path embed in prefix parameter of grubnetx64.efi file which I downloaded from here GRUBNETX64.EFI. I need this for my network boot environment(PXE) setup. I used this file to boot winpe and it works fine with the default directory which is grub/grub.cfg. When I run set command in grub menu … Read more
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 from a year now and yesterday I decided to go for the GUI upgrade option to 18.04 that keeps appearing after every software update. Everything went well in the upgradation and right at the end it asked what to do with the changes in the GRUB configuration file and I … Read more
