Remove Windows entry in GRUB menu

Question

I used to have Windows 8.1 - Linux Mint dual boot. I succesfully removed Windows from the system but Grub still shows Windows in boot options:

grub menu

I would like to configure the system the way, that on start up I directly load into Linux Mint without seeing Grub screen options at all.

What I tried so far:

1. sudo update-grub

2. sudo sed -i 's/GRUB_TIMEOUT=10/GRUB_TIMEOUT=0/' /etc/default/grub

   sudo update-grub

3. Deleted Windows entry using efibootmgr; it was entry Boot0003, it is no more there:

   BootCurrent: 0002  
   Timeout: 0 seconds  
   BootOrder: 0002,0004,2003,2001,2002  
   Boot0000* EFI Network 0 for IPv6 (70-54-D2-8C-E9-B5)   
   Boot0001* EFI Network 0 for IPv4 (70-54-D2-8C-E9-B5)   
   Boot0002* ubuntu  
   Boot0004* Ubuntu  
   Boot2001* EFI USB Device  
   Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM  
   Boot2003* EFI Network  
   

4. 3 followed by deleting directory Microsoft from /boot/efi/EFI.
   Currently /boot/efi/EFI has three dirs left: Boot toshiba ubuntu

Is there anything else I could do?

Solution

Open terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and follow the below procedure :

• Paste the following command in terminal sudo gedit /etc/default/grub. It will open a file named /boot/grub/grub.cfg file.

• Add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true at the bottom of this file.

  It will prevent Windows being added to your grub menu.

• Now to write the change, run sudo update-grub

• You can then run cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg to check that your Windows entry has disappeared.

• Restart your device to check the same.

Note : If above one doesn't go well you can also visit the link Removing Windows entry from grub.

Happy Ubuntu :)

Comments

[displayname]

awesome, this worked, thanx a lot!

[Pankaj Kumar Gautam]

it's my nature to share knowledge as much I can :)