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| 1300441 | 2012-09-21 08:17:00 | Well, continuing my linux saga I went to reboot after installing jupiter, shut down, went to restart, only to find I can no longer boot into linux. I can select linux from the windows bootloader, but instead of getting the grub boot option menu, I just get a blank screen with what looks like a flashing underscore or hyphen in the top left corner. I've left it for 10+ minutes, but no change. Windows works just fine. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300442 | 2012-09-21 11:24:00 | Oh bugger, I don't think I can help you with that! I use GRUB and no probs. Maybe try redoing the easyBCD thingy? |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1300443 | 2012-09-21 15:42:00 | Yeah I'm gonna pass on that one too, much easier to use GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) rather than the windows one :-/ | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1300444 | 2012-09-22 00:05:00 | My dvd writer is a Slimtype DVD A DS8A8SH, and I am using dvd + rw. Looks like a rebranded Lite-on. Perhaps it has problems with the media you're using, you might be able to find a firmware update from your PC\Laptop maker, if it's a compatibility problem. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300445 | 2012-09-22 23:06:00 | Nick, any progress? You could boot from the Linux DVD and reinstall grub from there you know? community.linuxmint.com this will remove bcd and put GRUB in its place but you should still be able to boot into Windows as well. If you can't then repairing the bcd bootloader is easy enough. www.howtogeek.com |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1300446 | 2012-09-23 05:14:00 | Nick, any progress? You could boot from the Linux DVD and reinstall grub from there you know? community.linuxmint.com this will remove bcd and put GRUB in its place but you should still be able to boot into Windows as well. If you can't then repairing the bcd bootloader is easy enough. www.howtogeek.com I've been tramping this weekend, so haven't tackled it again :) Thanks, I'll have a look and reinstall grub. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300447 | 2012-09-23 07:29:00 | Where did you go tramping? If you find yourself on South Terrace (Karamea) stop in for a cuppa! |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1300448 | 2012-09-23 07:34:00 | Where did you go tramping? If you find yourself on South Terrace (Karamea) stop in for a cuppa! Warfedale track, went up the track yesterday, stayed at the doc hut, then took the Mt. Oxford route back. If I ever go to Karamea I'll take you up on the offer :) Now, time to have a go at reloading grub...... |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300449 | 2012-09-23 07:38:00 | Good luck. That's a lovely area, used to go wandering around Coopers creek, Kowhai bush and Lake Sumner when I was younger (lived in Springfield back then) The Beech (Notofagus) forest particularly nice. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1300450 | 2012-09-23 08:39:00 | Nick; you are in luck.. I had this problem just this week (thanks to losing a harddrive and having to buy a new one and installing debian) I haven't dual booted in years, but when I did last dual-boot, grub should be the first thing you see. Maybe with Windows 7 this has changed... If grub is not on the harddrive where the computer is looking, the computer goes into a dormant state (the flashing cursor). In my case, the fix was thus: I had to reset BIOS to default settings as something went amiss - possibly powercut - and the BIOS was seeing the harddrives in the wrong order. A reset to defaults (and then change first boot to CD again) and everything was fine ... even although the install CD was seeing things correctly and installing grub and debian to sda as it should have. When the computer rebooted, everything was fine. I shall be keeping an eye on this computer, hopefully it was just a glitch and is not the indications of a mobo on its way out... |
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