I agree with Jordan's new title. And also with Phillip statement (You can't boot windows in bios mode if grub is booted in efi mode, and vice versa).
I saw several Windows installations which are bootable both via Legacy and via UEFI. I agree with Jordan's suggestion to always create&display both Legacy and UEFI based Win entries. +1 to add the error message too, and i suggest to add it 'live' at boot. For example, via grub-script we could maybe detect if grub was loaded in Legacy or UEFI; if loaded in Legacy mode, then it would add "(won't work unless BIOS is setup to boot in UEFI mode)" at the end of ALL uefi entries. And vice versa: if loaded in UEFI mode, it would add "(won't work unless BIOS is setup to boot in Legacy mode)" at the end of ALL bios entries. . In order to shorten the string and to avoid too much localization work, maybe eg "Ubuntu 13.04 (UEFI mode)" would be enough. BTW, i know that "won't work unless BIOS is setup to boot in Legacy / UEFI mode" is not totally correct vocabulary (should be "won't work unless your firmware is setup to boot in BIOS / UEFI mode"), but that's what users will generally find in their firmwares, so let's make their life easier ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024383 Title: update-grub generates only BIOS based menu entries for Windows, even on UEFI systems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1024383/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
