This method worked for me after a particularly nasty case of a Windows 10 update overwriting GRUB and then breaking its own boot loader. Following this procedure got both Windows and Linux back. In my case it was Linux Mint 18.1, and the boot-repair menus looked slightly different, but it all worked fine. Thanks! –

May 27, 2012 · The boot loader needs to be installed where the BIOS is looking for something to boot. To keep things simple, you usually have a disk drive where your computer boots from, you install a GNU/Linux system in that disk and the bootloader gets there too. The only things you need from the bootloader are really: That the BIOS is able to find it

May 27, 2020 · WARNING, you have to reinstall Linux / grub first! Steps: (this is if nothing else works and takes a long time) 1: Reinstall Ubuntu / Linux mint (this is just so you can use GRUB to boot into Windows). 1.5: Restart and boot into windows (if you can't boot to Windows, then live boot from the CD or USB and run the following in a console:

Jan 26, 2021 · Boot loader goes to a device (usually drive, be it hdd, ssd etc). Partitions are located on devices/drives, but are not devices. Most of the options listed are partitions and thus not appropriate (the first sector of a drive is reserved for the MBR where boot loader is placed, if you select a partition, you'll just lose the first 512 bytes of ...

May 16, 2017 · If you have the /etc/lilo.conf file then you are using LILO (LInux LOader) This means that if you type lilo for example you should see the command dialog for the lilo booter. If you have the /boot/grub/ directory then you are using GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) This means that you should be able to use all the grub file like grub-install ...

Assuming that Windows is already installed, install Ubuntu on another partition. Make sure that you install Grub2 on the Ubuntu partition - don't install it on the MBR since this will overwrite the Windows boot-loader. Boot into Windows and install EasyBCD. Add Entry and choose Grub2 i.e. Then write back the modified Windows Boot-loader i.e.

May 11, 2012 · LILO was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions in the years after the popularity of loadlin. Today, most distributions use GRUB as the default boot loader. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, and can boot an operating system (e.g., Linux kernel images) from floppy disks and hard disks.

Ubuntu uses the GRUB boot loader, which places enough code in the MBR to load and execute /boot/grub/core.img. Normally a copy of this file is placed in the sectors following the MBR, but before the first partition, and that is actually what the MBR loads, since finding the location of /boot/grub/core.img is too difficult to do properly in the ...

Mar 24, 2020 · If you install on bios booting machine you install boot loader at the begging of MBR, to /dev/sdx and boot loader files to /dev/sdx1/boot . If you install on uefi , efi dispatches boot to /dev/sda1 (which is fat32 uefi partition 128-512 mb of size) and the boot loader files are also in /dev/sda1/EFI/boot

Dec 24, 2013 · How do I set the bootloader so that in my dualboot with Windows 7/Ubuntu 11.04, Windows start up as standard instead of Ubuntu?