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Two questions: 1) What are you using? ([VMware] is a firm, please change the tags to [vmware-player], [wmware-workstation] etc). 2) [u]EFI used a FAT32 partition to boot all OS from. That one might be in use. Can you make more explicit what you mean when you write that linu xis showing up as efi system?– HennesCommented Jul 29, 2017 at 16:36
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Thanks or the reply. 1) VMware-Workstation Trial. 2) I've updated my current hard drive structure in the original post.– AzrudiCommented Jul 29, 2017 at 19:01
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I think my problem is the EFI system. I tried Oracle Virtualbox and went through the vboxmanage setup to use a raw disk - and once I've attached the raw disk to Virtualbox, it still won't let me boot as normal or as EFI. 1) booting normally results in no operating system found 2) choosing "boot EFI instead of BIOS" brings me to a strange EFI Internal Shell Menu and I can return to EFI Boot Manager and navigate "Set Boot Option" to find grubx64.efi, but selecting that file does nothing but I'm stabbing in the dark actually.– AzrudiCommented Jul 29, 2017 at 20:15
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ESP (EFI system partition) is the partition usually used to store the bootloaders for all operating systems. There usually is only one sunch partition and unless you have a MAC it is formatted with FAT32. Now when I look at /dev/nvme0n1p5 I see it is ext4 and it is your Ubuntu partition. It is also marked esp. That confuses me.– HennesCommented Jul 30, 2017 at 9:15
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re 3). I am out of my depth here. But can you check that the ESP is not already mounted by windows? Most of the time windows does seem to leave it alone (inf act, I had to force my current windows install to map a drive letter to it), but checking newer hurts. Otherwise good post. I hope it gets answered with a proper solution.– HennesCommented Jul 30, 2017 at 9:19
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