[SOLVED] windows no longer appears in the grub menu

corsair · May 01, 2023, 06:41:11 PM

After grub was updated Windows no longer appears as an option in the grub bootloader menu.
I do not know enough about gnu/linux system to act on my own, I would be grateful if someone could help me.
This is the Boot-Info summary:

boot-info-4ppa200 [20230501_1815]

============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================

=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub. It also embeds following components:

modules
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
fshelp ext2 part_msdos biosdisk
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 8/10/11/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 7/2008: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 10 or 11
Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda3: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 8/10/11/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:

sda4: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: SparkyLinux 7 (Orion-Belt)
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

sda6: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda7: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:

================================ 3 OS detected =================================

OS#1: Sistema operativo ora in uso - SparkyLinux 7 (Orion-Belt) CurrentSession on sda5
OS#2: Windows 10 (boot) on sda1
OS#3: Windows 10 or 11 on sda2

================================ Host/Hardware =================================

CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] from NVIDIA Corporation
BOOT_IMAGE of the installed session in use:
/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-7-amd64 root=UUID=586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47 ro quiet splash resume=UUID=1dc3427a-bb80-47bd-9824-1258af7ce54c
df -Th / : /dev/sda5 ext4 30G 12G 17G 42% /

===================================== UEFI =====================================

BIOS/UEFI firmware: 2104(4.6) from American Megatrends Inc.
This installed-session is in Legacy/BIOS/CSM mode (not in EFI mode).

============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================

Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________

sda : notGPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, has-win, 2048 sectors * 512 bytes

Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________

sda2 : is-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios
sda7 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios
sda5 : is-os, 64, apt-get, grub-pc , grub2, grub-install, grubenv-ok, update-grub, farbios
sda3 : no-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, farbios
sda1 : is-os, 32, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub, not-far

Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________

sda2 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda7 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda5 : isnotESP, fstab-without-efi, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda3 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-bmgr, notwinboot
sda1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, bootmgr, is-winboot

Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________

sda2 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda7 : maybesepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda5 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-without-usr, std-grub.d, sda
sda3 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda

fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________

Disk sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x443bbada
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda2 206848 208831058 208624211 99.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda3 208832512 209919999 1087488 531M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
sda4 209920000 734207999 524288000 250G 5 Extended
sda5 209922048 272836607 62914560 30G 83 Linux
sda6 272838656 289615871 16777216 8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
sda7 289617920 734207999 444590080 212G 83 Linux

parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________

sda:1000GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:ATA WDC WD1002FAEX-0:;
1:1049kB:106MB:105MB:ntfs::boot;
2:106MB:107GB:107GB:ntfs::;
3:107GB:107GB:557MB:ntfs::msftres;
4:107GB:376GB:268GB:::;
5:107GB:140GB:32.2GB:ext4::;
6:140GB:148GB:8590MB:linux-swap(v1)::swap;
7:148GB:376GB:228GB:ext4::;

Free space >10MiB: ______________________________________________________________

sda: 358500MiB:953870MiB:595370MiB

blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________

NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL PARTLABEL
sda
├─sda1 ntfs 2A221998221969D9 443bbada-01 Riservato per il sistema
├─sda2 ntfs E4DA1AE6DA1AB4B0 443bbada-02
├─sda3 ntfs 48F88DAAF88D973A 443bbada-03
├─sda4 443bbada-04
├─sda5 ext4 586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47 443bbada-05
├─sda6 swap 1dc3427a-bb80-47bd-9824-1258af7ce54c 443bbada-06
└─sda7 ext4 1df9ccb0-9589-4b04-968e-c6021f6a4716 443bbada-07

Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________

Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 67.8M 32% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
/dev/sda2 20.1G 80% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
/dev/sda3 80.9M 85% /mnt/boot-sav/sda3
/dev/sda5 16.3G 39% /
/dev/sda7 113.5G 40% /home

Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________

/dev/sda1 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda2 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda3 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda5 ext4 rw,noatime
/dev/sda7 ext4 rw,noatime

====================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================

Sparky GNU/Linux 586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47
Sparky GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47
Sparky GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47
Sparky GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.9.335-sparky-lts49-amd64 586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###

========================== sda5/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=586c3143-1d2b-4c51-b6f0-a5577dbc7f47 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=1dc3427a-bb80-47bd-9824-1258af7ce54c swap swap defaults,noatime 0 0
UUID=1df9ccb0-9589-4b04-968e-c6021f6a4716 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2

======================= sda5/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=1dc3427a-bb80-47bd-9824-1258af7ce54c"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

==================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================

GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
114.854579926 = 123.324166144 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
113.631099701 = 122.010464256 boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img 1
115.868244171 = 124.412579840 boot/vmlinuz-4.9.335-sparky-lts49-amd64 1
109.004783630 = 117.042995200 boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-6-amd64 2
111.551563263 = 119.777579008 boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-7-amd64 2
111.551563263 = 119.777579008 vmlinuz 2
109.004783630 = 117.042995200 vmlinuz.old 2
114.098628998 = 122.512470016 boot/initrd.img-4.9.335-sparky-lts49-amd64 6
127.072101593 = 136.442630144 boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-6-amd64 5
127.212970734 = 136.593887232 boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-7-amd64 3
127.212970734 = 136.593887232 initrd.img 3
127.072101593 = 136.442630144 initrd.img.old 5

===================== sda5: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6155 16 feb 2015 06_sparky_theme
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14123 10 giu 2022 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14180 10 giu 2022 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12910 21 apr 14.30 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1372 10 giu 2022 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 700 7 ott 2022 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 29 apr 2013 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 10 giu 2022 41_custom

======================= sda5/etc/grub.d/06_sparky_theme ========================

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# grub-mkconfig helper script.
# Copyright (C) 2010 Alexander Kurtz <kurtz.alex@googlemail.com>
#
# GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GRUB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GRUB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Remastered for SparkyLinux by Paweł "pavroo" Pijanowski 2015/02/16 (C) GNU GPLv3
# Include the GRUB helper library for grub-mkconfig.
. /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
# We want to work in /boot/grub/ only.
test -d /boot/grub; cd /boot/grub
# Set the location of a possibly necessary cache file for the background image.
# NOTE: This MUST BE A DOTFILE to avoid confusing it with user-defined images.
BACKGROUND_CACHE=".background_cache"
set_default_theme(){
case $GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in
Sparky|Ubuntu|Kubuntu)
# Set a monochromatic theme for Sparky/Ubuntu.
echo "${1}set menu_color_normal=white/black"
echo "${1}set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray"
if [ -e /lib/plymouth/themes/default.grub ]; then
sed "s/^/${1}/" /lib/plymouth/themes/default.grub
fi
;;
*)
# Set the traditional Debian blue theme.
echo "${1}set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue"
echo "${1}set menu_color_highlight=white/blue"
;;
esac
}
module_available(){
local module
for module in "${1}.mod" */"${1}.mod"; do
if [ -f "${module}" ]; then
return 0
fi
done
return 1
}
set_background_image(){
# Step #1: Search all available output modes ...
local output
for output in ${GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT}; do
if [ "x$output" = "xgfxterm" ]; then
break
fi
done
# ... and check if we are able to display a background image at all.
if ! [ "x${output}" = "xgfxterm" ]; then
return 1
fi
# Step #2: Check if the specified background image exists.
if ! [ -f "${1}" ]; then
return 2
fi
# Step #3: Search the correct GRUB module for our background image.
local reader
case "${1}" in
*.jpg|*.JPG|*.jpeg|*.JPEG) reader="jpeg";;
*.png|*.PNG) reader="png";;
*.tga|*.TGA) reader="tga";;
*) return 3;; # Unknown image type.
esac
# Step #4: Check if the necessary GRUB module is available.
if ! module_available "${reader}"; then
return 4
fi
# Step #5: Check if GRUB can read the background image directly.
# If so, we can remove the cache file (if any). Otherwise the backgound
# image needs to be cached under /boot/grub/.
if is_path_readable_by_grub "${1}"; then
rm --force "${BACKGROUND_CACHE}.jpeg" \
"${BACKGROUND_CACHE}.png" "${BACKGROUND_CACHE}.tga"
elif cp "${1}" "${BACKGROUND_CACHE}.${reader}"; then
set -- "${BACKGROUND_CACHE}.${reader}" "${2}" "${3}"
else
return 5
fi
# Step #6: Prepare GRUB to read the background image.
if ! prepare_grub_to_access_device "`${grub_probe} --target=device "${1}"`"; then
return 6
fi
# Step #7: Everything went fine, print out a message to stderr ...
echo "Found background image: ${1}" >&2
# ... and write our configuration snippet to stdout. Use the colors
# desktop-base specified. If we're using a user-defined background, use
# the default colors since we've got no idea how the image looks like.
# If loading the background image fails, use the default theme.
echo "insmod ${reader}"
echo "if background_image `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${1}"`; then"
if [ -n "${2}" ]; then
echo " set color_normal=${2}"
fi
if [ -n "${3}" ]; then
echo " set color_highlight=${3}"
fi
if [ -z "${2}" ] && [ -z "${3}" ]; then
echo " true"
fi
echo "else"
set_default_theme " "
echo "fi"
}
# Earlier versions of grub-pc copied the default background image to /boot/grub
# during postinst. Remove those obsolete images if they haven't been touched by
# the user. They are still available under /usr/share/images/desktop-base/ if
# desktop-base is installed.
while read checksum background; do
if [ -f "${background}" ] && [ "x`sha1sum "${background}"`" = "x${checksum} ${background}" ]; then
echo "Removing old background image: ${background}" >&2
rm "${background}"
fi
done <<EOF
648ee65dd0c157a69b019a5372cbcfea4fc754a5 debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png
0431e97a6c661084c59676c4baeeb8c2f602edb8 debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.png
968ecf6696c5638cfe80e8e70aba239526270864 debian-blueish-wallpaper-640x480.tga
11143e8c92a073401de0b0fd42d0c052af4ccd9b moreblue-orbit-grub.png
d00d5e505ab63f2d53fa880bfac447e2d3bb197c moreblue-orbit-grub.png
f5b12c1009ec0a3b029185f6b66cd0d7e5611019 moreblue-orbit-grub.png
EOF
# Include the configuration of desktop-base if available.
if [ -f "/usr/share/desktop-base/sparky_grub_background.sh" ]; then
. "/usr/share/desktop-base/sparky_grub_background.sh"
fi
# First check whether the user has specified a background image explicitly.
# If so, try to use it. Don't try the other possibilities in that case
# (#608263).
if [ -n "${GRUB_BACKGROUND+x}" ]; then
set_background_image "${GRUB_BACKGROUND}" || set_default_theme
exit 0
fi
# Next search for pictures the user put into /boot/grub/ and use the first one.
for background in *.jpg *.JPG *.jpeg *.JPEG *.png *.PNG *.tga *.TGA; do
if set_background_image "${background}"; then
exit 0
fi
done
# Next try to use the background image and colors specified by desktop-base.
if set_background_image "${WALLPAPER}" "${COLOR_NORMAL}" "${COLOR_HIGHLIGHT}"; then
exit 0
fi
# If we haven't found a background image yet, use the default from desktop-base.
case $GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in
Ubuntu|Kubuntu)
;;
Sparky)
if set_background_image "/opt/artwork/sparky-grub.png"; then
exit 0
fi
;;
*)
if set_background_image "/usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png"; then
exit 0
fi
;;
esac
# Finally, if all of the above fails, use the default theme.
set_default_theme

=========================== sda5/etc/grub.d/35_fwupd ===========================

#! /bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
set -e
[ -d ${pkgdatadir:?} ]
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
. "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib"
if [ -f /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf ] &&
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/fwupd-*-0abba7dc-e516-4167-bbf5-4d9d1c739416 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
. /var/lib/fwupd/uefi_capsule.conf
if [ "${EFI_PATH}" != "" ] && [ "${ESP}" != "" ]; then
echo "Adding Linux Firmware Updater entry" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry 'Linux Firmware Updater' \$menuentry_id_option 'fwupd' {
EOF
${grub_probe:?}
prepare_grub_to_access_device '`${grub_probe} --target=device \${ESP}` | sed -e "s/^/\t/"'
cat << EOF
chainloader ${EFI_PATH}
}
EOF
fi
fi

Suggested repair: ______________________________________________________________

The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would reinstall the grub2 of
sda5 into the MBR of sda.
Grub-efi would not be selected by default because no ESP detected.
Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s win-legacy-basic-fix

Blockers in case of suggested repair: __________________________________________

Please use this software in a live-session (live-CD or live-USB). This will enable this feature.

Thank you

pavroo · May 01, 2023, 07:17:10 PM

If you have Sparky testing (7) the default option of Grub doesn't support other operating systems to boot.
To fix that add the line:

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GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=falseas root or with sudo to the end of the file:

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/etc/default/grubthenL

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sudo update-grub

corsair · May 02, 2023, 08:49:45 PM

Thank you pavroo, everything is fine now.

[SOLVED] windows no longer appears in the grub menu

corsair

pavroo

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