Load kickscure from grub?

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kicksecure was working for a while on my nvme drive that is in a separate enclosure connected via usb c to my laptop. but this time it didnt automatically boot from the connected drive, and i had to press f12 for the boot menu, and the only option other than my windows OS native to my laptop, was the grub menu. Is there a way to boot from grub? or a way to ensure kicksecure boots correctly? without reinstalling kicksecure preferably.

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Sounds like your system’s firmware forgot about the Kicksecure installation because you booted it without the drive plugged in.

Yes, you technically can boot from GRUB directly, but it’s tricky. Most computers will give you a boot menu entry somewhere that will allow you to boot a specific drive, even if the system no longer remembers what OS is on that drive. (This is how, for instance, you’re able to boot into the Kicksecure installer in the first place.) Some computers are buggy though and will refuse to do this correctly for reasons known only to the firmware’s developers. Bugs like that will likely cause problems booting any Linux distribution installed to an external drive on that system. In that instance, you have a couple options:

  • Hunt around in your BIOS settings for a “Boot from File” option, then select your external drive, then select the EFI folder. If you see a Kicksecure entry, that’s good; proceed to select BOOT/BOOTX64.efi, and it should fix up your system’s boot entries and then reboot. At that point Kicksecure should show up in the boot menu.
  • Figure out how to boot a device that has rEFInd installed on it, and use that to manually select the EFI\Kicksecure\shimx64.efi file to boot from.

If the first option simply doesn’t work and the second one doesn’t sound like something you can do, you’ll probably need to follow the directions at:

Like mentioned before, you probably can use your existing GRUB instance to boot Kicksecure, but doing so isn’t easy. I might document it on the broken boot page if you end up needing to do that.

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ok i found BOOT/BOOTX64.efi and the kicksecure entry. that got me into my OS thanks a bunch, issue resolved!

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