bcdedit : the term is not recognized.

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bcdedit : the term is not recognized.

benarla opened this issue 4 years ago · 6 comments

Hi man, thanks for your tool. I would love to use it but i have a problem while trying to install any distro in dual boot, i get this error message on the powershell window that opens with the app. I tried to do a sfc /scannow but it doesn't solves my problem. I have a fresh windows install.

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:401 char:9

    bcdedit /export "${global:tunic_dir}\bcd-before.bak" | out-nu ...

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    ~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:408 char:9

    bcdedit /delete "$osloader" /cleanup /f | out-null

```
    ~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:410 char:18

$osloader = (bcdedit /copy '{bootmgr}' /d ubuntu).replace('The en ...

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             ~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:411 char:5

bcdedit /set         "$osloader" device "partition=$efi" | out-nu ...

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:416 char:9

    bcdedit /set         "$osloader" path "\EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi" ...

```
    ~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:418 char:5

bcdedit /set         "$osloader" description "Tunic Linux Install ...

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:419 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" locale | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:420 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" inherit | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:421 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" default | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:422 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" resumeobject | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:423 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" displayorder | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:424 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" toolsdisplayorder | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:425 char:5

bcdedit /deletevalue "$osloader" timeout | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:426 char:5

bcdedit /set '{fwbootmgr}' displayorder "$osloader" /addfirst | o ...

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

bcdedit : The term 'bcdedit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\benji\AppData\Local\Temp\Tunic\tunic.ps1:434 char:5

bcdedit /export "${global:tunic_dir}\bcd-grub.bak" | out-null

```
~~~~~~~
```
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (bcdedit:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Answer 1 · 2020-02-10T20:46:43.000Z

also i always get a c = a number that changes everytime and then false just under it when i open the app

Answer 2 · 2020-02-10T21:01:38.000Z

What version of Windows are you using?
Does this file exist? C:\Windows\System32\bcdedit.exe

Answer 3 · 2020-02-11T06:26:58.000Z

I'm on windows 10 pro 1909 and yes i do have this file

Answer 4 · 2020-02-11T14:13:20.000Z

If you launch from "Windows PowerShell" instead of "Windows Powershell (x86)" you shouldn't have this issue. Or you can launch it directly from C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe.

Details

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28040321/powershell-cant-understand-bcdedit
https://superuser.com/questions/831336/bcdedit-exe-is-not-recognized-win-8-1

bcdedit.exe is not accessible in the PATH from 32 bit Powershell, but is from 64 bit.

I will have Tunic check for this and display a pop-up warning and relaunch tunic in a separate 64 bit powershell process.

Answer 5 · 2020-02-12T13:59:46.000Z

well nice thank you very much. I don't know how to do it so i will wait for your fix to be implemented in a release

Answer 6 · 2020-02-12T17:46:09.000Z

It will likely be released this weekend or Monday. Or, if you don't want to wait, you can download and extract a .zip of the source and run tunic.ps1 from powershell:
https://codeload.github.com/mikeslattery/tunic/zip/develop