This will look like a duplicate but I assure you it's not. Unless I simply haven't found the solution yet from the correct post.
When boot-repair says, "Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sda1/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi file!", how do I do this?
I would think that there should be NO difference between rebooting and turning off and then back on your computer. But in my case, there is.
Update: Now both restarting and turning off/on do not boot
I looked here:
How do I make my BIOS boot on shimx64.efi file? (AND MANY OTHER SOURCES BUT TO NO AVAIL)
I tried, this: – as the previous post suggests. Update: along with reading the links that oldfred posted
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo efibootmgr -v
0001 shows that it points to my file. If I restart the computer, it boots (but very slowly), and it seems to be ok as long as I only restart (BUT if I turn off my computer, it will not boot and I am forced to use the USB live ubuntu install, and repeat the boot-repair install process. This is getting incredibly time consuming. Does anyone know how to force the system to always use this? I'm using the LVM setup on ubuntu install. And I believe i'm using EFI since the file is shimx64-efi.
Output from: (using live USB)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0008
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0008,0006,0005,0000,0003,0004
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,f3e3baf6-59ba-457d-8dab-9b9770eace6e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
Boot0003 UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(2089840f7458,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.00.0.0.0,0,0)AMBO
Boot0004 UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(2089840f7458,0)/IPv6([::]:[::]:,0,0)AMBO
Boot0005* Hard Drive BBS(HD,,0x0)AMGOAMNO........o.S.T.1.0.0.0.L.M.0.2.4. .H.N.-.M.1.0.1.M.B.B....................A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.2.S.Q.R.9.J.C.F.0.A.5.0.6.6. . . . . . ......AMBOAMNO........u.K.i.n.g.s.t.o.n.D.T. .1.0.1. .G.2. .P.M.A.P....................A.............................B..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.K.i.n.g.s.t.o.n.D.T. .1.0.1. .G.2. .P.M.A.P......AMBO
Boot0006* CD/DVD Drive BBS(CDROM,,0x0)AMGOAMNO........o.T.S.S.T.c.o.r.p. .C.D.D.V.D.W. .S.N.-.2.0.8.B.B....................A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.8.R.9.F.G.6.C.E.0.9.D.0.Z.X. . . . . . ......AMBO
Boot0007 Could not parse device path: No such file or directory
I am about to restart my computer again (after reinstalling boot-repair, for the nth time), and am definitely not looking forward to repeating this process again. The reason for my post.
Update: Still did not reboot, created the following postbin:
paste.ubuntu.com/p/PF3f4xNDjT
On reboot, if I hit ESC at the splash screen, I get the following menu:
menu of which none of these options work – they all just bring me straight back to this menu. And not one is this one which boot-repair said I need to boot to: sda1/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
If I try 'other' and boot to rescue mode, it brings me to this prompt and stops: initramfs prompt
As of 10/11/2018 10:10PM EST – I'm stuck
Thank you! I really appreciate any guidance here. This is driving me absolutely nuts!
Best Answer
Ok so after much searching I found out that if you try and install ubuntu and it works, but then when you shut down your computer, you can not boot, it may be because 1. You never installed an EFI partition (if you have a EFI system). or 2. During the installation wizard, you didn't select the location of your EFI partition (to be the location to install your boot loader files).
Once I did that it finally worked. Hopefully this helps someone out there!