boot-repair demands to be run in a live session when it already is in a live-session (aufs)

[Mike]

I am attempting to dual boot GNU/Linux and Windows 8.1. While running boot-repair in a live session, I get "EFI detected. Please check the options."

I choose "Recommended repair".

Then I get the message "Please us this software in a live-session (live-CD or live-USB). This will enable this feature." This has happened running from a live DVD and a live USB.

I am trying to dual boot Windows 8.1 with Siduction 13.2.1 (siduction.org), which is closely based on Debian sid, on an HP Pavilion notebook (http://forum.siduction.org/h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=6883367).

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Thanks Mike for your report.
Please boot in your live-session, open a terminal, and indicate the output of the 2 following commands:

df /

grep -E '(boot=casper)|(boot=live)' /proc/cmdline

[Mike (o-mike-g)]

$ df /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
aufs 6556624 907948 5648676 14% /

The grep command returns nothing.

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Thank you.
Please could you also indicate the output of the following 3 commands?

sudo parted -l

df -Th

mount

[Mike (o-mike-g)]

(Sorry for the delay! I appreciate your help.)

$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST1000LM024 HN-M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 420MB 419MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
 2 420MB 693MB 273MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
 3 693MB 827MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
 4 827MB 246GB 245GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
 6 246GB 263GB 17.1GB ext4 Linux
 7 263GB 974GB 711GB ext4 Linux
 8 974GB 978GB 3976MB linux-swap(v1) Linux
 5 978GB 1000GB 22.2GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, msftdata

Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sr0.
Ignore/Cancel?

(At this point, I canceled.)

$ df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs rootfs 6.3G 613M 5.7G 10% /
udev devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1.4G 852K 1.4G 1% /run
/dev/sr0 iso9660 1.1G 1.1G 0 100% /fll/sr0
/dev/loop0 squashfs 1.1G 1.1G 0 100% /fll/siduction
tmpfs tmpfs 6.3G 613M 5.7G 10% /fll/cow
aufs aufs 6.3G 613M 5.7G 10% /
tmpfs tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 100M 4.0K 100M 1% /run/user
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/sda7 ext4 652G 348M 619G 1% /media/disk1part7

$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=908596,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1457028k,mode=755)
/dev/sr0 on /fll/sr0 type iso9660 (ro,relatime)
/dev/loop0 on /fll/siduction type squashfs (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /fll/cow type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=6556624k,mode=755)
aufs on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=5513c9523f13900e)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type ...

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

thank you, I'll try to code a fix in the coming weeks.

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

fixed since version 4ppa10