I have a HP Pavilion laptop and I was running Windows 10 on it. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it in a separate partition for dual boot using a LiveUSB and everything went well the first time.
When I had to restart after installing Ubuntu, I could not get the GRUB menu options to boot into either Windows/Ubuntu. I got the try Ubuntu and install Ubuntu options again. So I went ahead with install Ubuntu and went ahead with the installation. After that, I got a message to reboot the PC after removing the installation media. So I did that and did the reboot.
After the reboot, I could only access Ubuntu from the GRUB menu. I can't see any option to load Windows from GRUB.
I searched a lot in the forums and tried some stuff like boot repair
and adding lines to the /etc/grub.d/40_custom
and sudo update-grub
but nothing seems to work.
Here is my Boot repair URL
I logged into Ubuntu and tried the boot repair
but it failed and the message popped up that I should use the boot repair from a Live USB or CD. So I created a boot repair live USB and performed the recommended repair
. This is what I got :
GPT detected. Please create a BIOD-Boot partition (>1MB, unformatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). This can be performed via tools such as GParted. Then try again. Alternatively, you can retry after activating the [Separate /boot/efi partition:] option.
Here is an image of my partitions from GParted.
Thanks for the help!