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After upgrade to 19.10 on my dual boot system I am unable to boot into Windows.

If I change boot order in the BIOS and put windows boot manager first I can boot into Windows no problem.

However... from the grub menu when I select Windows boot manager the screen flashes and I'm back at the grub menu. So I do see Windows as an option in grub, it just doesn't boot.

I used sudo grub-update

and boot-repair

here is the log: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/rJPfP9WwSs/

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  • Chrismile deleted answer converted to comment: "I can confirm that this is NOT a duplicate of the linked post (sorry that I can't use the comment functionality for stating this, as it is disabled for new users). This is definitely a bug in the upgrade process from Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 and the answer in the linked post does not fix this problem." – WinEunuuchs2Unix Oct 20 '19 at 15:10

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The instructions on boot-repair report tell you to boot into Windows (as you do now by changing boot order) and then:

For example you can boot into Windows, then type the following command in an admin command prompt:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi

Do this from Windows and then if it doesn't work revise your question with current status / new issues.

Also note boot-repair created 7 custom entries to boot Windows and Ubuntu from UEFI. In my experience they won't all work. After you fix the booting issues see this answer:

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  • Thanks, this fixed the issue for me. My bootmgr path was previously using grubx64.efi. I'm a little surprised this worked, since if there were an issue with SecureBoot I'd expect Grub not to load at all :shrug: – Dane Powell Oct 24 '19 at 16:05
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Apparently this is a bug in Grub 2.04, which is shipped by Ubuntu 19.10.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1839317 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1845289

You might consider either downgrading the version of Grub on your system or waiting for a fixed version.

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  • This appears to be my issue. Just going to wait it out as I rarely use windows so it isn't much of an inconvenience to me, I'll just swap boot order when I need to get in. Thanks – excuses Oct 20 '19 at 21:01