Boot repair NVram warning [SOLVED] | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 1:17 PM

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I've been fiddling with setting up my dual boot machine and I've installed windows on a partition that's on the same drive as my mint, which broke grub and put in this slow windows bootloader.
I followed a tutorial to repair GRUB and used Boot Repair, which warned me about a LockedNVram(LinuxMint) detected. I don't know what I'm doing at this point and I don't wanna break anything, so help would be appreciated.
Info in image format is below this post.

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 4:25 PM

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I've been looking for the answer online and there's many answers, but one suggests resetting CMOS jumpers effectively resetting BIOS settings. Should I try this first since I already have secure boot disabled?

small hull Jul 31, 2024, 4:32 PM

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rich lagoon I've been looking for the answer online and there's many answers, but one sugges...

See if there is an OS/UEFI boot loader menu in BIOS that allows you to have ubuntu first rather than windows boot loader

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 4:33 PM

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That's the problem, I know my mint bootloader is done for since I installed windows after mint

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Windows broke grub and I tried repairing it, that's also when the warning came

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In the boot menu it only shows my USB mint, not the SSD one which I think indicates GRUB is broken

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This is with the USB mint removed

small hull Jul 31, 2024, 4:45 PM

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Boot into Windows, open cmd with admin privileges and run bcdedit/enum firmware post results

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 4:46 PM

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alright, will take a few minutes due to the windows bootloader...

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Here's the output of your specified command

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 6:00 PM

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rich lagoon Here's the output of your specified command

just realized the way I typed it was a bit condescending, sorry about that

small hull Jul 31, 2024, 7:13 PM

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Now run in Windows bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi reboot and see if you go to grub, if not, you may need to use BIOS boot order to get into Windows

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 7:17 PM

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OK grub seems to work?????

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I thought it might've gotten erased

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 7:18 PM

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small hull Now run in Windows `bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi` reboot ...

Thank you so much, I was affraid I was gonna have to tinker with hardware

rich lagoon Jul 31, 2024, 7:49 PM

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Boot repair NVram warning [SOLVED]

small hull Jul 31, 2024, 8:34 PM

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Good, I like the easier fixes. Likely a case of the BIOS not wanting Linux to change the boot order but it would let Windows

#Boot repair NVram warning [SOLVED]