After install cannot boot [Solved]

[heydave]

Sounds a little over my head, but I would be like to try. Only thing is I gotta go chase sheep right now (really). Could I start here at this thread tomorrow? I'm not gonna lie, I'll need a bit (more) babying. I'd like to learn though. Kind of the reason I went with MX. Help for dummies like me. Just FYI, I have been helping other older people with older windog systems switch to MX21. So far for me, bulletproof. Gonna like 23 from what I've seen.
Thank You to all that have been helping me. gotta run. be back tomorrow

[heydave]

As of this morning, the Hp will still not boot from the hard drive. It will not boot from the MX23 stick. It WILL boot from the MX21 stick by way of the grub rescue boot option, into MX 23 on the hard drive. This is the 23 as i installed it with the username and such, fully functional.

If I try to boot into MX21 itself on the stick, all seems well, BUT the touchpad does not work, so I cannot use it to install 21.

Also, both the MX21 and MX23 stick operate normally on other computers.

[fehlix]

BTW, what method was used to create the MX23 LiveUSB. In case you used Rufus on windows, there was a report with recent GRUB upgrade may be used by Rufus, to make the system not boot - something with secureboot related.

[heydave]

I used the MX Live USB maker in my MX21 installed system. And old Dell from Maybe 2008 or 2009.

[fehlix]

I used the MX Live USB maker in my MX21 installed system. And old Dell from Maybe 2008 or 2009.

May be a last attempt:
When booted into the installed system:
Can you try this:

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sudo mkdir -p  /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot

and

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sudo cp /boot/efi/EFI/MX23/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

This for the weird case, that they have hardcoded the path of MS win boot loader
and wrongly assume there is not system to boot if it is missing.
Als when re-boot make sure you pull out all external Media after shutdown and do a fresh start.

[heydave]

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Katie@KatieMX23:~
$ sudo mkdir -p  /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot
[sudo] password for Katie:      
Katie@KatieMX23:~

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Katie@KatieMX23:~
$ sudo cp /boot/efi/EFI/MX23/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Katie@KatieMX23:~

Did both. Didn't return much (my ignorance, dunno what it should return).

Rebooting now with the USB stick removed.

[heydave]

Still goes to an error window "boot device not found, please install an operating system"

[Charlie Brown]

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Katie@KatieMX23:~
$ sudo mkdir -p  /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot
[sudo] password for Katie:      
Katie@KatieMX23:~

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Katie@KatieMX23:~
$ sudo cp /boot/efi/EFI/MX23/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Katie@KatieMX23:~

Did both. Didn't return much...

That's ok, it does (did) it silently.

[fehlix]

Still goes to an error window "boot device not found, please install an operating system"

Another weird attempt:
Open Gparted and right-click on the rootMX23 partition -> Manage flags -> select legacy_boot.

[heydave]

ok, but quick question... I am a bit afraid of gparted. will this keep us from what at least coming in from the mx 21 grub rescue boot?