[Bug 1845289] Re: Grub EFI amd64 no longer start EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

[Ivan Larionov]

For anyone trying to reproduce:

VirtualBox with EFI enabled with Win 10 Pro x86_64 installed first and
Ubuntu 19.10 installed after Windows to the latest additional partition
of /dev/sda. On fresh install with all updates:

1. Make sure you can boot both Windows and Ubuntu
2. Purge all shim* and grub* packages
3. sudo apt autoremove --purge
4. sudo rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu /boot/efi/EFI/grub /boot/grub
5. sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64-bin
6. sudo grub-install /dev/sda
7. sudo update-grub
8. Try to boot windows. Grub should blink and return you back to the menu.

You should have only the following packages installed:

* grub-efi-amd64-bin
* grub-efi-amd64
* grub-common
* grub2-common

There should be no shim packages.

Then try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xeron-oskom/grub2
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub

You should be able to boot Windows again.

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Title:
  Grub EFI amd64 no longer start EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in grub2 source package in Eoan:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On a dual boot computer with Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu 19.10, since a
  month, Grub was unable to boot Windows 10. Hitting the Windows entry
  line give me a 0.1s black screen and get me back to Grub Menu.

  sudo update-grub give me :

  Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
  Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
  Generating grub configuration file ...
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-10-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-10-generic
  Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/sda1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
  Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
  done

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.04-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-10.11-generic 5.3.0-rc8
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Sep 25 08:01:05 2019
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2018-11-14 (314 days ago)

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