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Re: GRUB Rescue
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 12:16 am
by kode-niner
Azrial wrote:
GRUB2 and Ubuntu Linux are both gone.
It's not hopeless yet. The partition isn't destroyed just because GRUB bought the farm. You should really have tried to use boot-repair-disk with the password suggestions and not use the failsafe option. Failsafe goes for the first working OS in the first partition and stops looking. To detect Linux in a secondary partition and re-install GRUB you'd have to run the boot repair GUI. I'm quite sure it was root with no password.
Otherwise if you have a bootable LIVE Ubuntu CD or USB, same utility:
Recovering Ubuntu After Installing Windows.
Or a Mint live CD or USB, look at this:
Restore Grub Boot Loader in Linux Mint After Installing Windows
Edit: oh wait, too late? You zapped Ubuntu and went with Mint?
Re: GRUB Rescue
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 4:51 am
by Shawn
Azrial wrote:.....
No Apple anything here! (Thanks Shawn for the confusion! LoL)
I guess no one got the joke. The woman in the photo is biting the computer. Like biting an apple!
Re: GRUB Rescue
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 4:54 am
by Bill_TN
"I am dual booting Win7x64 Home Premium and Linux Mint 17.3, codename "Rosa" with the Cinnamon GUI on a AMD Sempron x64 CPU with 4 GB of RAM.
No Apple anything here! (Thanks Shawn for the confusion! LoL)"
Nope, wasn't confused. Was just stating that Linux and Microcrap can run on Apples equipment. Linux does a better job of it than MS.
I use the Cinn mint on a few old machines myself. no probs. Well hope it works out for you. For vid issues go to menu, administration, and try driver manager. See what it does.
Yea Shawn I got the joke. Would have been easier is she was a "bottle blonde" .
Re: GRUB Rescue
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:32 pm
by Azrial
The Video issue was solved by installing the Nvidia drivers. This has been a bug in Ubuntu for the last few versions.
I assumed that if you knew the passwords, you would have told me about them when you refereed me to the program and frankly, I was pushed for time. Also the Failsafe version of the program deleted the Linux partition.
I have it up and running now. I had both machines accessing "My Documents" on the Windows side so I lost very little data. Thanks for the help!
Re: GRUB Rescue
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:49 am
by Bill_TN
Well haven't needed to use the programs in quite a long time. So just remembered that they worked and where to find them.