On 01/04/16 10:54, Ty Young wrote: > Sorry for the late reply! > > On 03/28/2016 03:58 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >> If you want Windows entries not appears in GRUB menu, you can disable >> the detection of other operating systems: >> chmod a-x /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober >> >> Than you can run update-grub with Windows HDD plugged, and menu will not >> include MS/Windows boot. >> Usually, when GRUB has no different OS to show in the menu, it's >> configured hidden to boot faster. If you want to discover the menu, you >> must hold [Shift] key at boot manager stage. > > A bit confused here... are you talking about the Ubuntu boot option in GRUB? > No, that in itself was/is(currently) fine and working. The menu > I'm talking about is the BIOS boot device manager/window that comes up by > entering BIOS Boot Options/holding F12 after POST. The entry to boot > to "ubuntu"(The HDD where Ubuntu-Gnome is on) was gone, with only the HDD > model(as mentioned previously) option remaining. If you are talking about the efi boot manager, I think that entry should be added at install time (and not touched again), though not entirely sure.
Though from your logs, efi boot doesnt seem to change? =================== efibootmgr -v (Before boot-repair) BootCurrent: 0004 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0003,0004,0000,0001,0002 Boot0000* UEFI Device: Generic-SD/MMC/MS/MSPRO 1.00 BBS(17,,0x0) Boot0001* UEFI Device: P5: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N BBS(18,,0x0) Boot0002* UEFI Device: USB Flash Disk 1100 BBS(19,,0x0) Boot0003* UEFI Device: ST3750528AS PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x2)/Sata(1,65535,0)/HD(1,GPT,4f39d2b7-00d2-4be4-a2d4-a3a41eceeb6e,0x800,0x100000) Boot0004* UEFI Device: Generic Flash Disk 8.00 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1a,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(1,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x2a8,0x7a8d58) =================== efibootmgr -v (after) BootCurrent: 0004 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0003,0004,0000,0001,0002 Boot0000* UEFI Device: Generic-SD/MMC/MS/MSPRO 1.00 BBS(17,,0x0) Boot0001* UEFI Device: P5: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N BBS(18,,0x0) Boot0002* UEFI Device: USB Flash Disk 1100 BBS(19,,0x0) Boot0003* UEFI Device: ST3750528AS PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1f,0x2)/Sata(1,65535,0)/HD(1,GPT,4f39d2b7-00d2-4be4-a2d4-a3a41eceeb6e,0x800,0x100000) Boot0004* UEFI Device: Generic Flash Disk 8.00 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1a,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(1,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x2a8,0x7a8d58) > Attempting to boot to the HDD model option after "ubuntu" goes missing just > boots to Windows. I'm guessing that is because it couldn't find an > OS on the HDD so it went to my default boot option, which was my Windows 7 > HDD... > > AFAIK, my install of Ubuntu-Gnome itself is fine. Every time I've reinstalled > GRUB via boot-repair it always lets me boot back into the OS > with no problems, but eventually goes missing again... even months later > apparently. > >> >> El 28/03/16 a les 02:32, Ty Young ha escrit: >>> On 03/27/2016 04:24 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >>>> Do you want to use GRUB With or Without Windows? >>>> Then will you update-grub With or Without Windows HDD plugged? >>>> >>> Without. The test that I just did was without Windows, though normally >>> it is plugged in during updates. >>> >>>> El 27/03/16 a les 00:26, Ty Young ha escrit: >>>>> Sent this earlier with an image attached but the size was too big and it >>>>> needed to be approved by a mod. I'll just include a link instead... >>>>> >>>>> On 03/25/2016 03:40 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: >>>>>> I suppose the only thing to seem disappeared is GRUB's menu (hidden to >>>>>> be more precise). >>>>>> >>>>>> If you already boot to GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), the command "update-grub" >>>>>> will rebuild menu's entries with plugged volumes that have operating >>>>>> systems. >>>>> I removed my Windows HDD and did update-grub and I can still boot into >>>>> Ubuntu Gnome. This is what it gave for output, if it helps any: >>>>> https://i.gyazo.com/882030bc7803cc353078120ed48e6043.png >>>>> >>>>>> El 25/03/16 a les 08:12, Ty Young ha escrit: >>>>>>> On 03/25/2016 01:58 AM, Tim wrote: >>>>>>>> On 25/03/16 17:12, Ty Young wrote: >>>>>>>>> I've personally never used update-grub before, so unless the command >>>>>>>>> was given by an update, no. >>>>>>>> Yes it will get triggered by system updates from time to time, so it >>>>>>>> would be worth trying and see if breaks things. A reproducible bug is >>>>>>>> much >>>>>>>> better than one that says "things break after a random reboot"! >>>>>>> Just update-grub? No special arguments/options? I'll try that tomorrow >>>>>>> and see what happens. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yeah, sorry about that. I said that because I have no clue what >>>>>>> could be >>>>>>> causing it. I hadn't installed any grub updates in a long time and >>>>>>> I've >>>>>>> only recently upgraded the kernel to 4.5, the only times I would think >>>>>>> update-grub would run. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I swear this has happened without even installing updates before >>>>>>> though. >>>>>>> Guess I'll found out tomorrow when I run it... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I run Windows 7 and Ubuntu Gnome on separate hard drives. I had >>>>>>>>> unplugged the Windows 7 HDD for the boot-repair. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Don't think so since it happens when restarting from Ubuntu Gnome >>>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>> never from Windows 7 to Ubuntu Gnome if the option was there before >>>>>>>>> restarting Ubuntu Gnome. >>>>>>>> OK, its probably not from windows then >>>>>>>>> If it matters any, I get a duplicate UEFI entry for Ubuntu, named >>>>>>>>> after the hard drive model(Model: ST3750528AS). If i select it, the >>>>>>>>> screen >>>>>>>>> flashes blue and enters grub as normal(or looks normal, anyway). >>>>>>>> I don't have any UEFI hardware still, so not entirely sure about >>>>>>>> this. >>>>>>>> But I believe the UEFI entries are added by the OS, maybe you can use >>>>>>>> efibootmgr to remove the dupe. No idea if this is causing your issues >>>>>>>> though. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
