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After my first install of Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS, my PC boots to the Grub command line. (Not a splash screen). UEFI.

How do I set this up so that I don't have to go through this process every time I want to use Ubuntu?

How do I boot my PC from GRUB?

To boot, from grub, I have to do the following from the above post:

Ok, from grub type ls (hd0,1)/ you should see a file named vmlinuz or linux, and initrd.img

Type linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 or linux (hd0,1)/linux root=/dev/sda1 depending on what you found with ls (hd0,1)/, then:

initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img boot

I have several hard drives in my computer (self-built). I select the drive i'm going to boot from in the UEFI utility. It currently defaults to my Windows drive as I will use Windows more frequently than Ubuntu.

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Booting from my installer USB stick, I created a boot parition using gParted, following these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootPartition

I made sure that the boot partition was at the front of the disk.

But Boot Repair detected an EFI and recommended I separate the boot/efi partition from the /boot.

So, using gParted, I created an EFI partition. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI#Creating_an_UEFI_partition Scroll down to "Creating an EFI System Partition"

Once I did that, I was able to select the EFI partition in Boot Repair. I followed the prompts until it was time to reboot.

When I got to my UEFI boot selector, I had 2 instances of "ubuntu" and 1 instance of the actual hard drive name. Selecting either of the "ubuntu" took me to Grub. But, when I selected the hard drive name, it booted the OS directly.

FYI--I only have Ubuntu on this drive. This is not a dual boot. I have Windows installed on an entirely separate drive.

Can I get rid of one of the instances of "Ubuntu" in the UEFI boot selector? If so, how and which one?

I don't know exactly how these changed fixed my issue, but they did. Thank you all for your help!

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