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I do not get this error with grub. But I think I'm all set. I might end up getting rid of ubuntu anyway. Thanks for the help. Appreciate it!

Ok so I think I got everything working on the systemd bootloader. Windows works perfectly. I had to copy the whole Microsoft folder to make it work though not just the bootmgfw.efi file. It said it was missing files when I only copied the one file. Ubuntu seems to work but I get this error every time I load up Ubuntu. (See attached) Any reason why?

Awesome! Thank you! I'll see if I can figure it out today.

If I figure out how to copy those files, do I still need that windows boot partition(named Microsoft reserve partition)? Same question for the linux kernal. Would I still need that second efi partition(named EFI System Partition? So I'd have to find these files in the other efi partition and copy them over to the Pop!OS boot partition? I found the microsoft bootmgfw.efi. But i didn't find the ubuntu kernal. Here's a tree of my boot directory. If I want hibernate to work that means I'd have to use Grub? If I use systemd with a delay and choose the hibernated system, will it boot from that hibernation point? Looking at gparted, doesn't look like any of them are tagged that way. So on boot, the BIOS opens of the fat32 grub partition which then loads the ubuntu root partition to get it's configuration? So sounds like I should use Grub. I did try to add Pop!OS to the grub configuration but the first time Pop!OS suspended, it gave me an error on boot. I had to switch to the systemd boot loader to boot Pop!OS. Error shown below. If I switch to Grub completely, can I get rid of the systemd boot partition? Pop!OS installation didn't let me install it without designating a boot partition. Hence why I have two fat32 boot partitions. My original thought was to use Grub completely which seems to be what I'll be circling back to. I'll try to set up both. I also just want to learn how this works and test stuff out. Thanks for the quick response. Really appreciate it!

Hi everyone, I rarely post here but recently ran into an issue that I haven't be able to overcome and figured this would be a good place to ask the question. I recently started using Pop! OS as my go to Linux distro and its been a pretty good experience. I used ubuntu previously and I'm not sure what it is but Pop! OS has just been a bit better. So here's my issue: I recently installed Pop! OS on my laptop. Previously, my laptop was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10. I have an HP Spectre 15 inch from 2018. I was using grub as a boot loader. When I first installed Pop! I learned that it installed systemd as a boot loader instead. So I wasn't sure what was going to happen with grub being the boot loader. So when I installed it, it just added another boot loader I guess? I'm not an expert on how booting works so that's my assumption to what happened because I can still access the grub boot loader if i go into the bios and tell it to boot from grub (labeled as ubuntu). However, systemd boot loader does not recognize windows 10 or ubuntu as an operating system that I can boot too. For the sake of easiness I just instead added Pop! as an option to the grub boot loader. However, after the first time putting Pop! to sleep (suspend), I could not get back into Pop! through grub. So instead I went and booted Pop! through the bios. I since am just using systemd and I think I'd like to use systemd as my boot loader. Unless anyone has any strong opinions or reasons why I should use grub. I like the customization of grub but I love the simplicity of systemd. So I have a bunch of question. 1. How do I add windows boot to my list of options in systemd? Everything says it should have done it automagically but seems like it didn't happen for me. I found something about adding windows.conf to the entries folder in /boot/efi/loader/entries. And that file looks like this title Windows efi /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi However, I copied that location from someone online. No idea where that file actually is in my computer. I assume it's in the windows boot partition but not sure how to get there during the boot process. I have a screen shot of my partitions below. Is this the right approach or am i totally off? 2. How do I do the same for Ubuntu? 3. How do I make sure when I suspend/sleep/hibernate my computer, it wakes up to the OS that it suspended from? How does the boot process work while suspended? 4. I disabled secure boot in order to install Pop! Is it worth going through the process to sign it my self so secure boot will work? I get mixed reviews about whether secure boot is actually useful or not. Seems like it'd be fine if I signed it myself. My real question is really how the boot process works. I'd like to understand what's going on. Seems like those files under /boot/efi are in my root partition. Does that mean when systemd boots, its using the Pop! OS root directory to figure out where all the boot files are? I figured during boot, it only loads boot partitions. Thanks for the help in advance. Appreciate it! -Espy

Yup never buying Razer. I know I should have RMAed it then. Huge regret.

Hi LLT Community! So I'm a long time fan of Linus' videos and I take his reviews really seriously. This is my first post and unfortunately it's because of a bad experience. Maybe I'm just trying to vent. Hopefully I can warn others about a bad brand and bad product. Based on his review of Razer products and specifically the first Razer Blade Stealth, I purchased a stealth for myself back in mid 2016. The first Blade Stealth I got had a broken camera. I RMAed it and they had no issues and sent me a brand new laptop after 2 more weeks of waiting. The second laptop was fine until the fan started going crazy and it would occasionally blue screen when its been on for a while. I contacted Razer again and they walked me through basically a reset process. That still didn't fix the issue. They asked me to RMA it. Now here's where I messed up. I did not RMA it because I needed the laptop for the next few weeks. I didn't want to wait 2 weeks for my laptop to get fixed or replaced. So I held off and dealt with the blue screens and loud fan. (Big mistake) This past December the fan stopped working. I was fed up so I contacted them again. They told me they would take it in but they'd have to charge me since its now out of warranty. So I bit the bullet and sent it in. Today they came back with my repair quote of $850. The laptop itself cost was $1000. They said there were issues with the motherboard and battery. (See attached) I'm not sure what they expect. Do people actually pay that? Why would I ever do that? To get the laptop back (after paying 30 bucks to ship it there) they want to charge me a 130 dollar diagnostic fee. I am at a loss for words. My last laptop lasted me 9 years with no issues. I thought I was upgrading. Any helpful advice from the community? TL;DR Razer sent me two bad laptops Second laptop was out of warranty Razer is charging me 850 dollars to repair a 1000 dollar laptop. Razer sucks. I need to vent. -Espy