Recently, I've installed Linux (MintOS) on my ssd drive. Also I have Windows 10 on my hdd drive. Windows was installed before linux.
The problem is that grub loader don't see windows loader and I can't boot on windows.
I remember having two different OS on that ssd and there was no problem on grub menu and discovering OS on that drive. But if I wanted to boot on hdd (windows), i was using bios every time.
Now, situation is the same, except I have only 1 OS on ssd and I can't boot windows anymore. Deleting windows is not an option.
I tried repair this with boot-repair, and this software detects OS (os-prober ?) and drives and other stuff correctly. Grub is also configured with good entry for linux. Windows is detected, but not added... :(
On boot-repair I choose this flags:
- Reinstall grub
- Unhide boot menu
- Place grub on sdb (ssd, where linux lives). separate /boot/efi partition is unchecked.
- Repair windows boot files
- sdb3 linux is os to boot by default
These are logs from boot repair:
============================= Boot Repair Summary ============================== Default settings: ______________________________________________________________ The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would reinstall the grub2 of sdb3 into the MBR of sdb. Grub-efi would not be selected by default because legacy Windows detected. Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s win-legacy-basic-fix Final advice in case of suggested repair: ______________________________________ Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sdb (ATA IR-SSDPR-S25A-12) disk! User settings: _________________________________________________________________ This will install an obsolete bootloader (GRUB Legacy). Please backup your data before this operation. The settings chosen by the user will reinstall the grub2 of sdb3 into the MBR of sdb. Grub-efi will not be selected by default because legacy Windows detected. Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s win-legacy-basic-fix Quantity of real Windows: 1 ========================= Reinstall the grub2 of sdb3 ========================== chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3 grub-install --version grub-install (GRUB) 2.06-2ubuntu7.1 ==> Reinstall the GRUB of sdb3 into the MBR of sdb chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3 grub-install /dev/sdb Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported. chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3 update-grub Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50_linuxmint.cfg' Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg' Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-56-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-56-generic Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries. Unhide GRUB boot menu in sdb3/boot/grub/grub.cfg Boot successfully repaired. You can now reboot your computer. Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sdb (ATA IR-SSDPR-S25A-12) disk! ============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================ => No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda. => Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 2048 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks for (,gpt3)/boot/grub. It also embeds following components: modules --------------------------------------------------------------------------- fshelp ext2 part_gpt biosdisk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- => Syslinux MBR (5.00 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc. sda1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sda2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows 8/10/11/2012: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Windows 8 or 10 Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe sda3: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda3 starts at sector 0. But according to the info from fdisk, sda3 starts at sector 519923712. Operating System: Boot files: sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: BIOS Boot partition Boot sector type: Grub2's core.img Boot sector info: sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: vfat Boot sector type: FAT32 Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg sdb3: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext4 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Linux Mint 21.1 Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img sdc1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: vfat Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 6.04 Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 32832 of /dev/sdc1 for its second stage. The integrity check of Syslinux failed. No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /syslinux.cfg /efi/boot/bootx64.efi /efi/boot/grubx64.efi /efi/boot/mmx64.efi /ldlinux.sys ================================ 2 OS detected ================================= OS#1: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera (21.1) on sdb3 OS#2: Windows 8 or 10 on sda2 ================================ Host/Hardware ================================= CPU architecture: 64-bit Video: GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] from NVIDIA Corporation Live-session OS is Linuxmint 64-bit (Linux Mint 21.1, vera, x86_64) ===================================== UEFI ===================================== BIOS/UEFI firmware: 1802(4.6) from American Megatrends Inc. This live-session is in Legacy/BIOS/CSM mode (not in EFI mode). c152ec201c37b6e97bbc2207e49d1271 sdb2/BOOT/fbx64.efi fdafb5eece6caeccb788c946a28e6872 sdb2/BOOT/mmx64.efi 5ddf997e8b025bfbc2009e85b32f60dc sdb2/ubuntu/grubx64.efi fdafb5eece6caeccb788c946a28e6872 sdb2/ubuntu/mmx64.efi 728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sdb2/ubuntu/shimx64.efi 728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sdb2/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi ============================= Drive/Partition Info ============================= Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________ sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, has-win, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes sdb : is-GPT, hasBIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, no-wind, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________ sda2 : is-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios sda3 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios sdb2 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far sdb3 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________ sda2 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot sda3 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot sdb2 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot sdb3 : isnotESP, fstab-without-efi, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________ sda2 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda sda3 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda sdb2 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb sdb3 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sdb fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________ Disk sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk identifier: 78E47EB1-EED8-44E8-85FC-7E3BE186D6CA Start End Sectors Size Type sda1 2048 34815 32768 16M Microsoft reserved sda2 34816 519923711 519888896 247.9G Microsoft basic data sda3 519923712 1953523711 1433600000 683.6G Microsoft basic data Disk sdb: 111.79 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Disk identifier: 2B6D4B4B-FADE-4169-AC1F-21598C19C5E1 Start End Sectors Size Type sdb1 2048 4095 2048 1M BIOS boot sdb2 4096 1054719 1050624 513M EFI System sdb3 1054720 234440703 233385984 111.3G Linux filesystem Disk sdc: 29.3 GiB, 31457280000 bytes, 61440000 sectors Disk identifier: 0x00030679 Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type sdc1 * 2048 61439999 61437952 29.3G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________ sda:1000GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00B:; 1:1049kB:17.8MB:16.8MB::Microsoft reserved partition:msftres; 2:17.8MB:266GB:266GB:ntfs:Basic data partition:msftdata; 3:266GB:1000GB:734GB:ntfs:Basic data partition:msftdata; sdb:120GB:scsi:512:512:gpt:ATA IR-SSDPR-S25A-12:; 1:1049kB:2097kB:1049kB:btrfs::bios_grub; 2:2097kB:540MB:538MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp; 3:540MB:120GB:119GB:ext4::; sdc:31.5GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:VendorCo ProductCode:; 1:1049kB:31.5GB:31.5GB:fat32::boot, lba; blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________ NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL sda ├─sda1 8a47735e-847e-4e08-b7cf-9d242dac3f42 Microsoft reserved partition ├─sda2 ntfs C448EE9848EE890E 715729d9-1ab0-4a3a-a829-b2a6a909e4e6 Basic data partition └─sda3 ntfs 01D7EC689D67D2E0 78020014-7be6-43d1-bc08-137656e47de0 D Basic data partition sdb ├─sdb1 btrfs 6eff9117-2be7-4fe7-8538-030938804bc3 50aa9682-8317-4601-81d8-a745a89810cc ├─sdb2 vfat D3A6-386D 830148b5-746a-466b-af8d-7fb76a88f065 EFI System Partition └─sdb3 ext4 d6be2234-9945-435c-829e-756c0e872a42 750e3efe-4797-4ff6-8be2-b19cbc280614 sdc └─sdc1 vfat 3C77-F150 00030679-01 LINUX MINT Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________ Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 164.6G 34% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2 /dev/sda3 555.6G 19% /mnt/boot-sav/sda3 /dev/sdb2 505.9M 1% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb2 /dev/sdb3 93G 10% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb3 /dev/sdc1 26.8G 9% /cdrom Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________ /dev/sda2 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 /dev/sda3 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 /dev/sdb2 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro /dev/sdb3 ext4 rw,relatime /dev/sdc1 vfat ro,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro ===================== sdb2/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ====================== search.fs_uuid d6be2234-9945-435c-829e-756c0e872a42 root hd1,gpt3 set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub' configfile $prefix/grub.cfg ====================== sdb3/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ====================== Ubuntu d6be2234-9945-435c-829e-756c0e872a42 Ubuntu, with Linux 5.15.0-56-generic d6be2234-9945-435c-829e-756c0e872a42 ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ### ========================== sdb3/etc/fstab (filtered) =========================== # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=d6be2234-9945-435c-829e-756c0e872a42 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sdb2 during installation /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 ======================= sdb3/etc/default/grub (filtered) ======================= GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false ==================== sdb3: Location of files loaded by Grub ==================== GiB - GB File Fragment(s) ?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1 13.881172180 = 14.904795136 boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img 1 28.841812134 = 30.968659968 boot/vmlinuz 1 28.841812134 = 30.968659968 boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-56-generic 1 26.887382507 = 28.870107136 boot/initrd.img 2 26.887382507 = 28.870107136 boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-56-generic 2 26.887382507 = 28.870107136 boot/initrd.img.old 2 ===================== sdb3: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ====================== -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18683 Apr 15 2022 10_linux -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43031 Apr 15 2022 10_linux_zfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14180 Apr 15 2022 20_linux_xen -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13369 Apr 15 2022 30_os-prober -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1372 Apr 15 2022 30_uefi-firmware -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 700 Sep 20 03:18 35_fwupd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Apr 15 2022 40_custom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 Apr 15 2022 41_custom =========================== sdb3/etc/grub.d/35_fwupd =========================== #! /bin/sh # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ set -e [ -d ${pkgdatadir:?} ] # shellcheck source=/dev/null . "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib" if [ -f /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf ] && ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/fwupd-*-0abba7dc-e516-4167-bbf5-4d9d1c739416 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then . /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf if [ "${EFI_PATH}" != "" ] && [ "${ESP}" != "" ]; then echo "Adding Linux Firmware Updater entry" >&2 cat << EOF menuentry 'Linux Firmware Updater' \$menuentry_id_option 'fwupd' { EOF ${grub_probe:?} prepare_grub_to_access_device '`${grub_probe} --target=device \${ESP}` | sed -e "s/^/\t/"' cat << EOF chainloader ${EFI_PATH} } EOF fi fi ====================== sdc1/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ====================== Start Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 64-bit Start Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 64-bit (compatibility mode) OEM install (for manufacturers) Boot from next volume UEFI Firmware Settings Test memory ========================= sdc1/syslinux.cfg (filtered) ========================= DEFAULT loadconfig LABEL loadconfig CONFIG /isolinux/isolinux.cfg APPEND /isolinux/ ==================== sdc1: Location of files loaded by Grub ==================== GiB - GB File Fragment(s) ?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1 ================== sdc1: Location of files loaded by Syslinux ================== GiB - GB File Fragment(s) ?? = ?? syslinux.cfg 1 ?? = ?? ldlinux.sys 1 ======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc ========================= /dev/sda1: unknown GPT attributes 8000000000000000 How can I add windows to grub ?
