pupal Frankensteinian Grub fails to detect ntldr (Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS)
I would consider my hardware setup mangled and bizarre. I am trying to get windows to boot from grub. It works just fine from EFI boot menu, though for some reason the EFI system partition is a normal NTFS system reserved instead, presumably because the latest bios I've flashed allows windows to use EFIbootmgr, since there is no clear reason Windows 10 would use BIOS mode. Grub does not indicate that a windows partition has been detected, although a menu entry does appear. I get the standard NTLDR NOT FOUND from other versions of this issue after disabling secure boot.
I would consider this a critical issue since I want this fixed before I try and add in another Linux distro and maybe a thumbdrive BSD. I am playing around a bit with Gentoo and sometimes it silently corrupts itself on my hardware, which requires that I backup the distro system and wipe my SSD. A few well-maintained NTFS partitions simplifies that process significantly. I have Ubuntu mostly out of vanity because the Gentoo installer won't mount efivar under sys and Ubuntu reliabily has them. I forget why that is required but I spent a few days in Fail because I didn't have that. Also just having a simple bootloader from a working distro is needed since the Gentleman seems to disagree often.
Hardware is ASUS z97-P Bios 2906 // Sandisk SSD Extreme 2 (2x [Windows/Gentoo]) 80Gb HDD (UBUNTU) 232Gb HDD (Archival)
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