Ubuntu not showing up in my bios.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

So a while back i installed Ubuntu on my Gaming PC. This was only the second time i every installed Linux, the other time was 1 week earlier on my crappy laptop.
But i chose to install Ubuntu ony different hard drive than windows. So windows is on my c ssd and Ubuntu is on my Q ssd (i just like the letter Q).
And every time i spamm the f11 button to get into my boot menu. Ubuntu shows up and when i want to boot it. It just kicks me on the dual booter Ubuntu ships with.
Is there any way to make Ubuntu show up on my msi bios if it's on a seperate ssd or do i have to reinstall it on my windows ssd to dual boot?

[Omega]

The "Dualbooter" is called GRUB, it is the bootloader. GRUB will start Linux, you can not start Linux directly (You can actually but that is a complicated story..).

The boot process of your computer looks like this;
1. Your turn on your computer.
2. It does POST checks and sees if everything is OK to go ahead and boot.
3. Your computer initializes hardware required for booting.
4. The UEFI reads the disks in the boot order, looking for an efi executable.
5. When it finds an efi executable it is loaded and executed.

This efi executable is your bootloader, GRUB is what manages the initial part of your boot process before you actually load in to an operating system. It is required (Not 100% true, but I will not go in to these technical details..).


If you want GRUB to boot Ubuntu by default you can edit it's configuration file and change the default entry. Or you can configure it to always load the last used entry. I recommend setting it to "saved".

GRUB will automatically boot the default/currently selected entry after a couple of seconds unless you interupt it.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

The "Dualbooter" is called GRUB, it is the bootloader. GRUB will start Linux, you can not start Linux directly (You can actually but that is a complicated story..).

The boot process of your computer looks like this;
1. Your turn on your computer.
2. It does POST checks and sees if everything is OK to go ahead and boot.
3. Your computer initializes hardware required for booting.
4. The UEFI reads the disks in the boot order, looking for an efi executable.
5. When it finds an efi executable it is loaded and executed.

This efi executable is your bootloader, GRUB is what manages the initial part of your boot process before you actually load in to an operating system. It is required (Not 100% true, but I will not go in to these technical details..).


If you want GRUB to boot Ubuntu by default you can edit it's configuration file and change the default entry. Or you can configure it to always load the last used entry. I recommend setting it to "saved".

GRUB will automatically boot the default/currently selected entry after a couple of seconds unless you interupt it.

Sorry if i explained it wrong, but My PC just boots into windows when i power it on.
The only way to boot into ubuntu is by spamming f11 while booting, to get into my bios boot menu, select ubuntu, this launches the GRUB, and from there i can finally boot into ubuntu.
I just want that if i turn on my pc, i instantly boot into GRUB, making dual booting easier.

[Omega]

Publicado originalmente por your average stock demo main:

Publicado originalmente por Omega:

The "Dualbooter" is called GRUB, it is the bootloader. GRUB will start Linux, you can not start Linux directly (You can actually but that is a complicated story..).

The boot process of your computer looks like this;
1. Your turn on your computer.
2. It does POST checks and sees if everything is OK to go ahead and boot.
3. Your computer initializes hardware required for booting.
4. The UEFI reads the disks in the boot order, looking for an efi executable.
5. When it finds an efi executable it is loaded and executed.

This efi executable is your bootloader, GRUB is what manages the initial part of your boot process before you actually load in to an operating system. It is required (Not 100% true, but I will not go in to these technical details..).


If you want GRUB to boot Ubuntu by default you can edit it's configuration file and change the default entry. Or you can configure it to always load the last used entry. I recommend setting it to "saved".

GRUB will automatically boot the default/currently selected entry after a couple of seconds unless you interupt it.

Sorry if i explained it wrong, but My PC just boots into windows when i power it on.
The only way to boot into ubuntu is by spamming f11 while booting, to get into my bios boot menu, select ubuntu, this launches the GRUB, and from there i can finally boot into ubuntu.
I just want that if i turn on my pc, i instantly boot into GRUB, making dual booting easier.

In that case all you have to do is change the bootorder in BIOS and put Ubuntu first. Remove Windows from the boot order completely to make sure it doesn't boot in to it automatically.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

But i cant change the boot order.
Windows booter showes up but ubuntu doesnt. Thats my problem. I have ubuntu but it doesnt show up in bios

[Omega]

Publicado originalmente por Uncle dane wannabe:

But i cant change the boot order.
Windows booter showes up but ubuntu doesnt. Thats my problem. I have ubuntu but it doesnt show up in bios

Then you have to add it manually. If the BIOS is acting stupid you can always reset it. Or force it to look for a new bootable disk by removing all existing ones.

Or you can try running "sudo efibootmgr -c" from within Ubuntu, it should create a new entry in your UEFI Boot Manager and add it to the first place in the list. If that doesn't work you will have to manually provide it a partition and file to load.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Install Linux and Win10 separately and on their own drives. Do not install OS' while multiple drives are connected. Then simply can edit the Linux boot loader to include a Windows OS boot option, so your PC stops at a boot loader menu. Or use the BIOS Boot Menu F# key in order to switch OS boot drive at the time of BIOS POST

[mtono]

as far as i know, one has to install windows first and then linux(ubuntu). it knows how to handle the dual boot thing. a linux bootlaoder shows up, if you install your two operating systems this way. in ubuntu setup there is an option to install ubuntu besides windows, what has to be installed before. i think that does the trick...imho.

btw? is there some kind of UEFI support in modern linux? i experienced linux without UEFI-Bios, but with Legacy-bios. can you say? thx in advance.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Publicado originalmente por owl rly?:

as far as i know, one has to install windows first and then linux(ubuntu). it knows how to handle the dual boot thing. a linux bootlaoder shows up, if you install your two operating systems this way. in ubuntu setup there is an option to install ubuntu besides windows, what has to be installed before. i think that does the trick...imho.

btw? is there some kind of UEFI support in modern linux? i experienced linux without UEFI-Bios, but with Legacy-bios. can you say? thx in advance.

yeah looking back i should have installed Linux and windows on the same drive.
I have done that on my old ♥♥♥♥♥♥ laptop and it works without problem.
Well at least Linux runs as good as you can expect from a low end laptop

[mtono]

i see

:)