Ubuntu isn't starting up on my Acer Aspire ES1-432, so I tried running Boot-Repair. Every time I try and run Boot-Repair, the error keeps showing up even though I followed the instructions correctly and deleted GRUB2 with success. Other ways of fixing this problem doesn't seem to be working.
Here's the URL that Boot-Repair gave to me.
boot-repair-4ppa150 [20220101_0529]
============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda1 has
204800 sectors.. But according to the info from the
partition table, it has 1048575 sectors.
Operating System:
Boot files: /efi/BOOT_bak/fbx64.efi /efi/BOOT_bak/mmx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi /efi/BOOT/fbx64.efi
/efi/BOOT/grubx64.efi /efi/BOOT/mmx64.efi
/efi/Linux/grubx64.efi /efi/Linux/mmx64.efi
/efi/Linux/shimx64.efi /efi/ROOT/grubx64.efi
/efi/ROOT/mmx64.efi /efi/ROOT/shimx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi /efi/BOOT/grub.cfg
/efi/Linux/grub.cfg /efi/ROOT/grub.cfg
/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg /efi/BOOT_bak/BOOT/grubx64.efi
/efi/BOOT_bak/BOOT/mmx64.efi
/efi/BOOT_bak/BOOT/shimx64.efi
/efi/Linux/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
/efi/Linux/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
/efi/Linux/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
/efi/BOOT_bak/BOOT/grub.cfg /efi/Linux/ubuntu/grub.cfg
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
sdb: ___________________________________________________________________________
File system: iso9660
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /mnt/BootInfo/FD/sdb: /dev/sdb already mounted or mount point busy.
================================ 1 OS detected =================================
OS#1: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on sda2
================================ Host/Hardware =================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: HDGraphics500 from Intel Corporation
Live-session OS is Ubuntu 64-bit (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, focal, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI =====================================
BIOS is EFI-compatible, and is setup in EFI-mode for this live-session.
SecureBoot disabled.
efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Unknown Device: HD(1,GPT,3561b8bc-392f-40b4-9518-afb6ffe2f9b9,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)RC
Boot0001* USB HDD: hp v232w PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x15,0x0)/USB(2,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x2cf4ba3a,0x506fcc,0x1f40)RC
Boot0002* Unknown Device: HD(1,GPT,1d3115b2-f04e-4f4e-a33a-08d6b92f1387,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)RC
Boot0004* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,3561b8bc-392f-40b4-9518-afb6ffe2f9b9,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi)
Boot0005* Phoenix OS HD(1,GPT,1d3115b2-f04e-4f4e-a33a-08d6b92f1387,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\PhoenixOS\Boot\bootx64.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.5.5.f.4.8.6.4.6.-.b.1.a.1.-.1.1.e.8.-.8.3.1.d.-.c.6.e.a.0.a.b.e.0.f.1.4.}...&................
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC
85fa9d77b929ec4231aba29476574eb6 sda1/BOOT_bak/fbx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/BOOT_bak/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/BOOT/bootx64.efi
85fa9d77b929ec4231aba29476574eb6 sda1/BOOT/fbx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/BOOT/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/BOOT/mmx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/Linux/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/Linux/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/Linux/shimx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/ROOT/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/ROOT/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/ROOT/shimx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/BOOT_bak/BOOT/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/BOOT_bak/BOOT/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/BOOT_bak/BOOT/shimx64.efi
fa1bf1a7f90a852abe0bdbd089b7f1b0 sda1/Linux/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
469e608783843a701d172242f016c79c sda1/Linux/ubuntu/mmx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/Linux/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
728124f6ec8e22fbdbe7034812c81b95 sda1/BOOT_bak/BOOTX64.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
sda : is-GPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far
sda2 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda2 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : not-sepboot, no-boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, std-grub.d, sda
sda2 : not-sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sda
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk identifier: F0FA6389-A0E8-4456-9D4B-277EEA02822F
Start End Sectors Size Type
sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
sda2 1050624 976771071 975720448 465.3G Linux filesystem
Disk sdb: 15 GiB, 16106127360 bytes, 31457280 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x2cf4ba3a
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdb1 * 0 5999871 5999872 2.9G 0 Empty
sdb2 5271500 5279499 8000 3.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sdb3 6000640 31457279 25456640 12.1G 83 Linux
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:500GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA ST500LT012-1DG14:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32:EFI System Partition:boot, esp;
2:538MB:500GB:500GB:ext4::;
sdb:16.1GB:scsi:512:512:unknown:hp v232w:;
Free space (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:476940MiB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA ST500LT012-1DG14:;
1:0.02MiB:1.00MiB:0.98MiB:free;
1:476939MiB:476940MiB:1.01MiB:free;
sdb:15360MiB:scsi:512:512:unknown:hp v232w:;
gdisk (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Disk identifier (GUID): F0FA6389-A0E8-4456-9D4B-277EEA02822F
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4077 sectors (2.0 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1050623 512.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 1050624 976771071 465.3 GiB 8300
Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by
33 blocks!
You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility.
Disk /dev/sdb: 31457280 sectors, 15.0 GiB
Disk identifier (GUID): 1B2A34FB-B541-47B3-BE6D-C07F9CFF907D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 31457246
Partitions will be aligned on 4-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5992606 sectors (2.9 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
2 5271500 5279499 3.9 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
3 6000640 31457279 12.1 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1 vfat F1C9-D543 3561b8bc-392f-40b4-9518-afb6ffe2f9b9 EFI System Partition
└─sda2 ext4 c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502 7658984a-8be4-4e24-a006-5e9310de1ca6
sdb iso9660 2021-08-19-11-03-38-00 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS amd64
├─sdb1 iso9660 2021-08-19-11-03-38-00 2cf4ba3a-01 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS amd64
├─sdb2 vfat 54C5-9C6C 2cf4ba3a-02
└─sdb3 ext4 49c2db0d-5627-447d-b4b9-1a63b992a1c3 2cf4ba3a-03 writable
df (filtered): _________________________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2022-01-01.0/crash] 11.2G 0% /var/crash
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2022-01-01.0/log] 11.2G 0% /var/log
sda1 76.3M 23% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
sda2 425G 2% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
sdb1 0 100% /cdrom
Mount options: __________________________________________________________________
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2022-01-01.0/crash] rw,relatime
disk/by-label/writable[/install-logs-2022-01-01.0/log] rw,relatime
sda1 rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
sda2 rw,relatime
sdb1 ro,noatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048
====================== sda1/efi/BOOT/grub.cfg (filtered) =======================
search.fs_uuid 9941d02a-a600-4fb0-acf5-6e1d3c103977 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda1/efi/Linux/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid 9941d02a-a600-4fb0-acf5-6e1d3c103977 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda1/efi/ROOT/grub.cfg (filtered) =======================
search.fs_uuid 9941d02a-a600-4fb0-acf5-6e1d3c103977 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
===================== sda1/efi/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
search.fs_uuid c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
================== sda1/efi/BOOT_bak/BOOT/grub.cfg (filtered) ==================
search.fs_uuid 9941d02a-a600-4fb0-acf5-6e1d3c103977 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
================== sda1/efi/Linux/ubuntu/grub.cfg (filtered) ===================
search.fs_uuid 9941d02a-a600-4fb0-acf5-6e1d3c103977 root hd0,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
====================== sda2/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Ubuntu c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.11.0-43-generic c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502
Ubuntu, with Linux 5.11.0-27-generic c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
========================== sda2/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=c4bcfd6c-ae80-4239-ae3e-98dadcdd1502 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
UUID=F1C9-D543 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
======================= sda2/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
==================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
142.627296448 = 153.144893440 boot/grub/grub.cfg 2
7.215038300 = 7.747088384 boot/vmlinuz 1
5.922847748 = 6.359609344 boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-27-generic 2
7.215038300 = 7.747088384 boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-43-generic 1
5.922847748 = 6.359609344 boot/vmlinuz.old 2
7.582450867 = 8.141594624 boot/initrd.img 1
7.526924133 = 8.081973248 boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-27-generic 2
7.582450867 = 8.141594624 boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-43-generic 1
7.526924133 = 8.081973248 boot/initrd.img.old 2
===================== sda2: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18151 Aug 12 09:18 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42359 Aug 12 09:18 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12894 Aug 12 09:18 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12059 Aug 12 09:18 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1424 Aug 12 09:18 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Aug 12 09:18 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Aug 12 09:18 41_custom
Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would purge (in order to unsign-grub) and reinstall the grub-efi of
sda2,
using the following options: sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file
Final advice in case of suggested repair: ______________________________________
Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS entry (sda1/efi/****/grub****.efi (**** will be updated in the final message) file!
