grub repair fails on dual boot

aishen at free.fr aishen at free.fr
Sun Apr 7 23:30:35 UTC 2024


I had the same problem but plus the time of start was not enaugh 1 s i 
put 5 and a menu appears on the screen

I didn't have this before, but after diagnostic i saw that the ryzen was 
to speedy and I fall on a grub console !

Correcting boot secure and time did the tric !

Le 07/04/2024 à 22:17, ubuntu-users-list at thomas.freit.ag a écrit :
> Hi Liam,
>
> On 07.04.24 15:24, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> after some Windows 10 updates, dual boot (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 
>>> 23.10) does not work any more on my Lenovo Ideapad 5. After turning 
>>> on, grub does not get invoked and it boots directly into Win
>>> 10. This happens sometimes, booting a USB live system and 
>>> reinstalling grub usually works fine. However, this time 
>>> reinstalling does not work. After attempted repair, still no grub is 
>>> loaded
>>> on bootup and system ends in BIOS or boots Win 10 (depending on boot 
>>> order).
>
>> Have you disabled secure boot?
>> Have you disabled Windows Bitlocker?
>
> It was an issue with secure boot, Lenovo specific and with no errror 
> messages indicating this. Rerolled the Canonical certs and now it 
> boots again. Most helpful (however no step by step guide) was: 
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/700326
>
>>> 2) prepare the live system for grub (re)installation, make sure 
>>> chroot has all necessary stuff
>>> # cryptdisks_start nvme0n1p6_crypt
>>> Starting crypto disk...
>>> nvme0n1p6_crypt (starting)...Enter passphrase for /dev/nvme0n1p6:
>>> nvme0n1p6_crypt (started)...done.
>
>> Hey hey hey whoah there.
>> You didn't mention disk encryption.
> I use an unencrypted boot, with LUKS encrypted / and /home, I pretty 
> sure this was not a problem in this case. No issues since years.
>
>> 1. Don't dual boot with disk encryption.
>> 2. Better still, don't use disk encryption.
>
> This is a rather dangerous hint. I would strongly suggest to use 
> encryption whenever possible, especially for devices which are 
> transportable. In case of loss or theft this is vital to protect your 
> data. Hardware is fast enough for years and LUKS is a well established 
> stack.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>




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