14.10 only boots to UEFI Interactive shell

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 on a VirtualBox VM. It installed fine, I was even able to install Guest Additions and a few apps before shutting it down for the day. Now when I try to boot the VM all that loads is the UEFI Interactive shell.

How do I get it to boot back into the normal desktop?

Go into your VirtualBox settings by choosing your Ubuntu VM then Settings. Choose System and then uncheck Enable EFI. — John Scott, Dec 04 '14 at 01:48
I just tried that and all it gives me is "no bootable medium found" — Lucian Dragos, Dec 04 '14 at 13:36
Ah. No wonder. It's because you installed it in EFI mode. You need to make a new virtual machine and install Ubuntu all over again and make sure that box is NOT checked! — John Scott, Dec 04 '14 at 21:16
Well that figures.. I didn't do much with it yet anyway so whatever x_x And this is why I VM things 1st lol — Lucian Dragos, Dec 04 '14 at 22:27
Possible duplicate of VirtualBox boots only in UEFI Interactive shell — Kulfy, Aug 19 '19 at 22:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 11 '19 at 21:54

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Edit startup.nsh. Add the line:

fs0:\path\to\grubx64.efi

edited Jul 11 '19 at 21:54

Eliah Kagan

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answered Mar 05 '15 at 23:37

emash

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14.10 only boots to UEFI Interactive shell

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