Lost grub on EFI BIOS update
Robin Laing
MeSat at TelusPlanet.net
Sat Oct 18 05:57:37 UTC 2014
On 2014-10-17 16:45, Pete Travis wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2014 3:57 PM, "sean darcy" <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I updated the BIOS on an acer EFI laptop. Now there's no grub boot menu,
> it just boots to W 8.1.
>>
>> How do I reinstall grub ?
>>
>> sean
>>
>
> Maybe you just need to change the boot order?
>
> If not, the next steps vary depending on how you installed. UEFI mode or
> BIOS mode?
>
> --Pete
>
>
>
This is a common problem from what I have read if you are using Secure
Boot. Mainly with HP laptops.
Not sure how to fix it but I have seen it on searches from the net.
Maybe one of these will help.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2224303
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB
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