Re: problems dual booting Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10

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Pascal Hambourg schreef op 08-05-2018 14:54:
> Le 08/05/2018 à 06:58, David Collier a écrit :
> > I am having problems trying to make grub boot Windows 10. (I tried 
> > both
> > version which came with 16.04 and the latest and greatest)
>
> Version of what ?
> What versions ?
> The latest and greatest what ?

Obviously, Grub 2.

> > I can boot Windows by changing the BIOS default boot flow, the UEFI 
> > BIOS is
> > able to do it just fine, but grub just does not refuse to detect 
> > Windows
> > boot partition, or any partition on that drive to that matter. I used 
> > the
>
> "does not refuse" = "accepts" ?

= does not; refuses to

> > 'disks' utility to change format of the Windows boot partition from 
> > FAT to
> > NTFS, converting it to NTFS makes the BIOS stop recognizing it, but 
> > still
> > does not help grub to recognize it.
> Do you mean the EFI partition ? The BIOS does not care about Windows
> boot partition.

Yes EFI has to be FAT I guess.

> dpkg -l "grub*"
> fdisk -l
> blkid
> os-prober
> efibootmgr -v