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I'm attempting to triple boot my Macbook from an external SSD. I first started with installing Windows 10 on the external SSD following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhW722IMwE. Following that I followed this tutorial to install Ubuntu on the second partition here. I was able to boot into both Windows 10 and then into Ubuntu using reFInd. However, now I can't boot into Windows 10 and I keep getting the error "BlInitializelLibrary failed 0xc00000bb". When I searched this error I end up at a website here. This does not resolve the issue for me though.

What I've tired since is creating a folder in Ubuntu under "/boot/efi/EFI/Windows" and then mounting that partition to that folder. In the folder "/boot/efi/EFI/" I only had "APPLE, refind, tools, ubuntu" before.

I have also followed the steps at these links as well here.

While in Ubuntu if I type efibootmgr -v into terminal I get,

BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002,0080,0081,0082
Boot0000* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,2a4cd9af-2573-486d........)/File(\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi)
Boot0001* rEFInd Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,2a3cd9af-2573-.....)/File(\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi)
Boot0002* Windows HD(7,GPT,0000000-0000-0000-0000,0x0,0x1)/File(\EFI\Windows\grubx64.efi)
Boot0080* Mac OS x PciRoot(0x0)..... .....

I'm not sure but this may be part of the issue? I'm just not sure.

If possible I could reformat the windows partition and reinstall but I wouldn't know how to follow up to get it to boot.

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  • As a follow up, I looked into the guide here and when I went through and ran "mkdir /Volumes/ESP", "sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP" I then see that there is nothing in the EFI/Windows folder.
    – OnlyBiology
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 5:29
  • Under /Volumes in MacOS I do see Macintosh HD and WinToUSB which WinToUSB is the SSD. Going into WinToUSB I see the files for Windows. I then cd to Boot and then to EFI and then I see the bootmgr.efi. Do I need to relocate this to the bootloader?
    – OnlyBiology
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 5:33
  • Your mistake is having a MacBook. You should break it with a hammer and buy a real laptop. Repairing these things manually seems like a problem. Try repairing Windows from the windows usb and after that use Ubuntu Boot repair from an Ubuntu Live USB. Using Ubuntu repair will solve your problem after reinstallstion. I will post the link in a moment.
    – CFCBazar
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 10:37
  • quora.com/Why-does-Ubuntu-20-04-not-boot-properly/answer/…
    – CFCBazar
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 10:43

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Soooo much attempts to fix this!

I finally found a solution and it comes from the author of both gdisk and rEFInd though this StackExchange post. Rod explained to be in MacOS and mkdir /Volumes/ESP to be able to access the ESP volumes. Then sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP. Once there make sure you're in EFI-mode and not BIOS. The thing that fixed everything though was the next step of using gdisk. To do this you type gdisk /dev/disk0, the solution I found to work for me though was to also perform this on disk2 but for you maybe also disk1. Possibly there is a way to check what disk to use beforehand but unknown to me. Then just follow the rest of the steps.

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