Create a Menu Entry with Windows 10 and Acronis Recovery Media
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I have a laptop that does not allow to boot into Legacy mode. But it allows me to disable secure boot.
I have windows 10 installed on that laptop and I have an external SD card with Acronis recovery media installed on it.
What I want to do is have a menu when the PC is starting with the options to boot into Windows 10 and the Acronis recovery environment.
I tried Bootice, EasyUEFI, EasyBCD, VisualBCD, etc... Nothing worked. Later I found out that Windows 10 Boot loader does not allow to boot anything that is not Windows based.
Finally I found Grub2Win and this is my last hope. However, after installing Grub2Win, it is not recognizing the EFI loader on the SD card.
Note: If I hit F12 to load the UEFI boot menu and choose the SD card, it loads perfectly the Acronis Recovery Environment. The partition of the acronis is a FAT32 and the environment is a linux based.
Can somebody give me a hand?
Ok, I guess nobody ever used Grub2Win with an Acronis external Media, So I had to figured it out myself.
I managed to create a boot menu with the Windows Loader and the Acronis Loader for my external USB.
The way I did it was adding a menu entry using the EFI Chainload option with this parameter:
/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
I think the chainload searches for any device with that file and boots from it.
I'm not sure but that worked for me.
If anybody needs a configuration like I did, let me know.
Road
Thank you for the update Road. A copy of your menu might help others.