Reinstalling grub after windows 7 install

Now boot it in test try without install. Open a terminal and type in this command to see the Disk: sudo fdisk -l We will see the installed Linux partitions. Often we'll find it next to "EXT. Run the program and go for these steps: a. For windows, one has to download the program and run it. For Linux open terminal. I hope this article was helpful. To test this, I tried booting without any interruption, which is the entry.

As expected, it didn't work. So I restarted the server, hit F12, and chose linuxmint. As hoped for, it did boot to my LMDE installation.

I used this command to remove entries and Option was from the last of my many attempts to recover the OS. I would up-vote this, but apparently I don't have enough rep on SuperUser. I'm glad I finally found an answer to this after days of fighting clones that worked but wouldn't boot. I think it all relates to UEFI and some kind of 'secure booting' mechanism or something.

I'm working off-line, so apt-get wasn't an option. Boot up the Live USB stick, open a terminal, run the command, and the job is a good 'un! You can also use dpkg-reconfigure instead of dpkg -i , but that asks a couple of boot loader questions. This entry is more along the lines of preparing your computer to reinstall the efi entries. It's also what you might find to be an effective and simple way to create a rescue disk following system installation on internal media SSD, HDD.

With Linux Mint Tara a Linux variant closely related to Ubuntu Bionic Beaver , the method both borked my installation, and made it possible later to save it.

It arose out of my wanting a live USB having persistence, and since the time to install a utility like Unetbootin for a persistent install is roughly the same as a fresh install, I simply used the same live distribution to do an installation on the USB as was used to install the OS on the internal SSD.

Worked great, thanks! Just a note, I didn't bother with all the umount ing at the end -- ubuntu automatically unmounts filesystems on shutdown. So I just did a sudo reboot and everything worked fine.

You also need to mount the EFI partition for modern installations. All worked for me. Try this To recover grub: Open the live version. Open the terminal and run sudo fdisk -l to see where Linux is installed.

Run sudo update-grub to update grub and if this command didn't work run it after rebooting. Kevin Bowen Black Block Black Block 4, 18 18 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 68 68 bronze badges. You saved my life The --root-directory was just ehat I needed — Mellowcandle.

It worked great. Still works, for Ubuntu I have problem in step 5. May you explain more? Show 3 more comments. Ringtail Ringtail Jorge Castro Mysterio Mysterio After I reinstalled win7, I lost access to grub. I installed Windows 7 which resulted in new boot loader without Ubuntu.

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