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Linux Ubuntu Dual-booting horror (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any and all help would be so greatly appreciated. I've been battling with my laptop to be able to dual-boot Ubuntu Cinnamon and Windows 10 for about four days now. I've probably gone down five or six different rabbit-holes of troubleshooting, GRUB command-line fun, reinstalling and updating the BIOS, trying and failing to deal with VMX and locked NVram. As of now, my system boot-loops and fails to run Windows, but paradoxically I am able to get Ubuntu running, which is what I am using now.

I'll try to provide as much relevant information here as I can:

Device: HP ZBook 17, gen 6
Primary OS: Windows 10 Home
Linux distro: Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10
Ubuntu location: /dev/sda3
grub-install --version = 2.12~rc1-10ubuntu4
boot-repair Boot-info summary: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/rxZ3D5GtpP/
I'm more than happy to provide more information as it's requested.

As of now, I am unable to run Windows through the BIOS. If I run via the dedicated SSD as I normally do, it boot-loops, and if I try to go through any other drives it just tells me I need to install an OS. I am currently able to run Ubuntu, but only by going through the following process:

Startup menu
Boot configuration
Boot from EFI > Ubuntu > shimx64.efi

At this point, I am happy with two outcomes to this scenario:

I am able to run my laptop with Windows 10 as the primary OS, with the ability to dual-boot to Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.10.
Assuming option 1 is impossible/requires a Herculean amount of work to pull off from this state, I am willing to scrub Windows 10 from my laptop and move forward with Cinnamon as my daily driver, though I am rather inexperienced in it. I can learn to move forward as I need to and run a VM or WINE for any Windows-specific processes I still need to do. But I would rather keep this option as my dead man's switch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You have an EFI bootloader, so your BIOS should be able to detect your Windows partition and just boot it off it's still in good working order. Go into your BIOS boot menu and see if you can boot to Windows from there as a first test.