# Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.1 "no bootable device" after install

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396 "2020-11-19T17:04:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/1 "2020-11-19T17:04:59Z")

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Ok, so I its been some time (10years) since I’ve done a install of Ubuntu and I tried making a bootable USB flash drive with Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.1 I liked the OS so much i thought why not erase my HDD with Windows 10 on it and to a clean install from inside Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.1 and everything went smoothly and yes just to touch base the initial bootup to the USB filecheck was good. But nevertheless after the clean wipe and install all done thru the Budgie OS once it was done I was instructed to restart and remove the installation medium which again it all went smoothly untill the restart where I was informed there is no device found. After all was said and done I loaded up the USB Budgie and found to my surprise the OS on the internal HDD of the laptop. Incase anyone has hardware questions ill enclose a picture of my specs

 ![Screenshot from 2020-11-19 17-01-31](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/5/5fe0f6deeafceb72747d841fe4fe6234e5f8d0b6.png)

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/2 "2020-11-19T19:11:31Z")

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Hi,

I guess something’s wrong with GRUB.

From your live-usb-session do a « boot-info »

```auto
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y boot-info && boot-info

```

and paste here the link to report.

```auto
lsblke -fe7 -o +size

```

might help see your discs and partitions and mounting points.

So there was a Windows previously on that disc.  
Maybe some SecureBoot to disable ?  
Or setting bios to boot in bios/legacy mode instead of UEFI ?

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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/3 "2020-11-20T15:10:40Z")

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> **[Ubuntu Pastebin](https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/nj4zYQGbmC/)**

 ![Screenshot from 2020-11-20 15-06-08](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/d/de93c3f81dd3834225e2f29be034e3fb5d14327a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/4 "2020-11-20T15:11:32Z")

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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/5 "2020-11-20T16:06:23Z")

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i just tried to disable secure boot and see what would happen but i got the same message “no bootable device found”…

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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/6 "2020-11-20T16:08:05Z")

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tried legacy mode as well no results

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/7 "2020-11-20T19:09:41Z")

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Seems there’s still a Windows Boot Manager on that disc.  
Do you still need Windows on that machine ?

If Windows no longer needed, maybe easier to  
⋅ from live-session, totally erase everything on that disc using _gparted_,  
⋅ no partitioning, no formatting, just leave the whole thing as unallocated space,  
⋅ then reinstall Ubuntu-Budgie, using default options and suggestions by the installer.  
It should be enough.

Or use again the _install_ line from second post and launch this time _boot-repair_ instead of _boot-info_ but here am less sure of what will happen because of the remaining Windows Boot Manager.  
As mentioned by boot-info, boot-repair would do :

```auto
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility would reinstall the grub-efi-amd64-signed of
sda2,
using the following options: sda1/boot/efi,
Additional repair would be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s use-standard-efi-file    

Final advice in case of suggested repair: ______________________________________

Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS entry (sda1/efi/ ****/shim****.efi ( **** will be updated in the final message) file) !

```

It’s the very last line that worries me a bit, not sure what it means.

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**Author:** ![Rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@Rotten](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rotten)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/8 "2020-11-20T23:15:00Z")

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Ok I had an idea the secure boot had a manual entry option so I found GRUBX64.efi file and added a short Ubuntu20.04.1LTS tag to it and I some how got to GNU GRUB 2.04 but when I try booting into Ubuntu I get a new error

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/d/da3684eb845c08ca36714cb8d47cd07ec1e6d3ad.jpeg)

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/9 "2020-11-20T23:16:07Z")

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/10 "2020-11-20T23:18:30Z")

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Also tried “advanced option” got the following error :

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/8/82a7bbbdf550f3061dd3626c4c04d7f1b2ad04e2.jpeg)

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**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/11 "2020-11-20T23:45:45Z")

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Ok new update I changed something and I can’t seem to undo it and I’m back to square one again  
🙃

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/12 "2020-11-21T00:08:16Z")

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Are these after you wiped out your entire disc and made a **new** installation ?  
Or it’s the **same** install’ from first post ?  
Or it’s the same install’ after boot- **repair**?

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/13 "2020-11-21T07:09:17Z")

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Every post i make is in chronological order…

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/14 "2020-11-21T07:19:08Z")

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I’ve tried to replicate the GRUB load up but so far I’ve been unsuccessful.

There was this quote from the terminal post that i recognized from the bios.

> [@Coeur-Noir](#):
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> `Please do not forget to make your UEFI firmware boot on the Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS entry (sda1/efi/ ****/shim****.efi ( **** will be updated in the final message) file) !`

The secure boot gave me an option to choose a .efi to boot to and the bios changed the boot to the GRUB. But since I tinkered with the bios again I can’t seem to get the bios to change the .efi  
But even if i did get the Bios to load up that GRUB screen from before the system wasn’t allowing me to move forward past GRUB

When I get back home (I’m at work) I’ll make some screenshots of the bios so you can see what I’m seeing. Maybe then you’ll have a clearer picture of what I’m referencing above.

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/15 "2020-11-21T16:15:43Z")

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/16 "2020-11-21T16:16:32Z")

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/17 "2020-11-21T16:17:12Z")

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/18 "2020-11-21T16:17:46Z")

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**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/19 "2020-11-21T16:46:49Z")

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Ok, but it’s not an answer to :

> [@Coeur-Noir](#):
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> Are these after you wiped out your entire disc and made a **new** installation ?

I think it would be easier to start from zero, see :

> [@Coeur-Noir](#):
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> If Windows no longer needed, maybe easier to  
> ⋅ from live-session, totally erase everything on that disc using _gparted_ ,  
> ⋅ no partitioning, no formatting, just leave the whole thing as unallocated space,  
> ⋅ then reinstall Ubuntu-Budgie, using default options and suggestions by the installer.  
> It should be enough.

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**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-20-04-1-no-bootable-device-after-install/4396/20 "2020-11-22T05:07:13Z")

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Ok so i wiped the entire disk with the live USB Budgie-Ubuntu installer, took me 10 hours.

From the wipe i installed budgie via the normal install method, choosing erase and install option.

After install is complete i restart laptop, ASUS logo appears and then “no bootable device” appears immediately after.

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