Boot Repair – Cannot Boot After a Boot Repair on Toshiba Satellite

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I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 on my Toshiba satellite z930. Ubuntu is the only OS on this computer (windows 8 was wiped right away).

Everything went great, except that the following message appeared:

Error : file not found

Error : file not found

Error : file not found

Press Any Key to Continue'

After pressing any key, I could indeed load ubuntu normally.

I decided to fix this issue, came across Error while Booting Ubuntu 14.04 . The solution proposed did not work, so I searched further and found (I don't know where) the advise to run Boot Repair. Since then, I get the following message when I try to start my computer:

Insert system disk in drive.

Press any key when ready….

The last report I got from Boot Repair can be found here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10603340/ .

So , in short, things went almost perfect before running boot repair. Now, they do not work at all.

What can I do next ?

Best Answer

After digging around and experimenting, I am glad to share the solution that worked for me (i.e. a complete beginner in the field). As far as I understood, my Toshiba Satellite Z930 will ONLY boot windows from UEFI.

Here is exactly what I did, (and so can any newbie, trust me):

  • I downloaded boot-repair-disk (sorry I can't post the link, this is because of the restriction to 2 posted links per post for unexperienced users, but just ask Dr. Google)
  • I made a bootable USB with the help of UNetBootIn (again, no link)
  • I booted from the USB

  • Once the lubuntu interface was loaded, I pressed Ctrl-Alt-F1 to open a shell, and typed the following:

    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

  • After checking the content of my directory with the ls command, I found out that /EFI/Boot was already there. So I made a backup of bootx64.efi by typing

    sudo mv /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi.backup

  • Then I copied all the content of the /mnt/EFI/ubuntu into /mnt/EFI/Boot with the following command line:

    sudo cp /mnt/EFI/ubuntu/* /mnt/EFI/Boot

  • Finally, I renamed the file grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi by typing

    sudo mv /mnt/EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi /mnt/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi

The last step was to open a bottle of champagne to celebrate. But I guess you don't have to. Instead, you can just thank warmly oldfred for all the time he took to post his solutions.

The solution is based on the following threads external to Ask Ubuntu:

Although the full answer was here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295 in the subsection "Systems that only boot Windows from UEFI", I found easier to follow the explanations from this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2247186 .

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