I would like to get the winodws bootloader as the default bootloader instead of the Fedora one. I don't mind the Fedora bootloader, but I use windows more so it gets annoying.
View 4 RepliesI have problem with bootloader , mean to say , after installing fedora 13 my windows 7 bootloader will overwrite, and when i install windows7 boot loader my fedora 13 bootloader will overwrite vice versa
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have installed Windows 7 and fedora 12 on my system.I want to reinstall my windows 7 but as I know after installing windows 7 , i will not be able to boot my fedora 12 how to recover bootloader of fedora 12 after installing windows 7. [URL]
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am getting a new computer with Windows 7 installed. It will contain a second hard disk on which I will install Fedora Linux. I plan to put grub in the /boot partition of that disk,so I won't be able to boot Linux directly to start. I plan to use the Windows 7 bootloader to dual boot, and I understand in principle how this is done. I set up a previous computer which was running Vista this way, using the program Easy BCD which simplified setting up the Vista bootloader. But the Easy BCD website doesn't address the question of what to do with Windows 7.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI thought it would be cool and easy to install Windows 7, ended up being a headache and worthless so far. Now I only have the windows bootloader with vista and windows 7 as options. How can I get grub going again? I have all 6 fedore core 10 cds and a live cd in case those will help, I am using the live cd to play in fedora right now, but I am not sure how to get access to grub.conf and what to change in it, because I am pretty sure I have to add Windows 7 to it.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi cant do it from the bootloader option under administration, and i couldnt see a way to do it from the bootloader itself!can anyone help please? new to fedora replaced ubuntu with it!
View 6 Replies View RelatedOn my netbook (I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix, 10.04) the default option in the Grub menu is Ubuntu. Problem: I'd prefer it to be Windows 7.
I've tried using Startup Manager, which I've used successfully in the past. The program loads fine and lets me change all of the options, and saves and closes fine. But when I restart, the bootloader begins with Ubuntu and a 10 second timeout instead of Windows 7 and a 3 second timeout.
I've also tried editing etc/default/grub and, again, I was able to change it and save it without a problem (default menu item: 4, default timeout: 3). I also did a 'sudo update-grub' to try to get it to stick.
Still nothing. Every time I start up the computer, it's set on Ubuntu 10.04 and a 10 second timeout.
On this particular machine I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 & Open SuSe from the first hard drive & LinuxMint 9 plus Mandriva 2010 on the second drive. I've found out from posting elsewhere on this site that the Ubuntu family & Suse use different versions of GRUB so one may not boot the other. Ubuntu's boots itself, Mint 9 & Suse but not Mandriva, Mandriva's boots itself & Suse, Suse returns the same favour. So my work-around has been to install the Mandriva bootloader onto a floppy & Ubuntu's onto the MBR.
Now, the issue is I want Mint 9 to be the default but when I try to edit the menu/ist file using gedit all I get is a blank page, no data.
Is it possible to have the Windows bootloader point to Windows 7 and a Linux partition instead of using GRUB to point to Windows 7 and Linux?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi turn on my computer today and the windows partition that is normally there is gone, i don't know why or where it went. the part of the harddrive still exsists because i still have the 282GB partition that i can look at through ubuntu.i have is that for some reason since i upgraded to karmic koala, i have a bunch of old kernals also chilling on grub doing nothing, how do i rid myself of those?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if it's possible to use the windows bootlaoder instead of GRUB to choose between Windows and Linux? If so how?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy setup is like this:
* Installed Windows 7 on primary (SATA) hard drive
* Installed Ubuntu 11.04 on secondary (IDE) hard drive
I've worked with Wubi before, and I liked it so much, I decided to go full scale with Ubuntu. However, I think I've missed an option in the setup, because Grub has now taken over my bootloader. I tried reverting to the Windows loader with EasyBCD, but booting Ubuntu from there is impossible, since it doesn't show itself. By the way, I don't really understand EasyBCD, so that makes it even harder. Anyway, what I'm trying to accomplish here, is to get a bootloader which uses Windows as default and Ubuntu as secondary OS. How do I do this?
I have a computer with windows XP on it. I want to put openSUSE on it with windows xp, but want to use my windows boot loader. How to make an entry. I should mention that I am going to put openSUSE on a second Hard drive.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu10.04 on my machine which already has on it, Win XP. Lemme lay down the setup of my machine first of all.
I got a new 320GB HDD of which I have taken 20GB as the primary partition and installed Win XP on it. Took another 220GB as an extended partition for my data storage. Around 63GB was remaining which I left it as unallocated. Decided to try Ubuntu, but preferred to boot it from the windows bootloader. Downloaded and burned the Ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso(have a AMD x3 425 machine) and tried an install on 30GB of the 63 left.
I did not try any partition scheme. I chose the manual partition option, made a 28GB ext4 partition, made it primary, mounted the /, took another 2GB for the swap and proceeded. Chose advanced option and installed grub on the 28GB(/dev/sda6) and completed the installation.
Since no grub was installed, Ubuntu was not available. So then, used the bootpart utility to point grub to the windows bootloader, but it did not work, was giving me error when I chose Ubuntu from the bootmenu modified by the bootpart.
So tried booting with the same install cd, chose Live Ubuntu this time and mounted the 28GB, copied the first 512bytes using dd if=/dev/sda6 of=ubuntu bs=512 count=1 to a usb drive. Rebooted into windows and copied the file to C: and added it to the boot.ini. Rebooted and tried choosing Ubuntu from the boot menu but it does not work. I get a blank screen with the cursor blinking.
The machine is new and BIOS is LBA enabled by auto.
i had a dual boot xp/ubuntu first. later i had to format and reinstall xp. this deleted the grub bootloaderplease let me know, how to fix this! please make it simple . i have the live cd, but i don't have internet connectivity in ubuntu.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo here's the skinny, I have Windows 7 home Premium installed on my Touchsmart PC. I have a 60 GB partition I want to use for Ubuntu. Can I install Ubuntu to that partition so that it doesn't change how my computer boots up already?
Example:
I press the power button. The POST test processes and then boots into windows no questions asked, as if it's the only OS on the system.
I want to keep it that way even after Ubuntu is installed.
I want Ubuntu ONLY accessible by using the BIOS boot menu as soon as the PC starts up.
I have a netbook dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu Netbook Edition via Wubi. Ubuntu crashed on me while I was recording a screencast and I rebooted to find the Windows bootloader no longer works. It simply gives me an error ("cannot load bootfont") for a split second and restarts immediately. I'm able to access the grub menu with a bootable USB drive and access the Wubi partition, but I can't boot Windows, including the Windows recovery partition. I can still boot Ubunutu.
My question is: is there a way to restore the Windows bootloader in Ubuntu? If not, how can I replace it with a grub bootloader and keep my Wubi boot options intact?
I was wondering if i could reinstall the windows bootloader with the ubuntu installation cd..because with the current ubuntu installation the windows 7 installation dvd doesnt load up. when i use a windows xp cd, the computer tells me that there is no active hard drive. other linux distros work just fine
View 7 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my computer. I first get the Windows bootloader telling me choose between Windows or Ubuntu. If I pick Ubuntu, I then get a GRUB loader telling me to choose between different versions of Ubuntu and Windows 7. How do I remove GRUB and just use Windows bootloader?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI know practically nothing about Linux but am trying to learn. I actually want to get certified Linux+. So I figure this forum would be a great resource. Anyway, I have a dual boot situation going on my laptop with Windows XP and Ubuntu, and am pretty frustrated that I seem to forced to use GRUB. I really dont feel like reinstalling. Is there a way to simply change it back to using the Windows bootloader?
View 3 Replies View Relatedwith reference to my this thread: [URL]
After installing Windows 7, the GRUB got re-written by the windows bootloader. Now after booting into the live cd and mounting /boot partition (sda2), I tried to reinstall the GRUB with this command grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda as told by this [URL]
But I got the an error which says, Are you sure /dev is mounted? then i tried the same command on the / partition (sda5) which said, cannot find boot directory, Are you sure /dev is mounted?
And installation failed, now after restarting its just a black screen with grub> prompt.
I have a dual boot machine (Windows 7 and Debian). W7 and debian are on the same HD but on different partitions. The debian partition is an LVM encrypted one.
The W7 needs reinstalling, and as I understand the process will overwrite the debian bootloader (grub).
Question: Is there a way to save the current bootloader and recover it after I've reinstalled W7, so I wont have to reinstall debian from scratch?.
I plan to re-install W7 on the same partition it is now, without overwriting the debian partition.
I had windows 7 on my computer on drive D,then I installed opensuse 11.2 on space of drive C. But when I restarted my computer,I couldn't see windows 7 bootloader on the list, all of the options related to opensuse.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB. Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader and have the secondary option to boot my Linux Mint?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've restored NTFS containing Windows Vista. But the bootloader or bootsector got corrupted.
How can i detect what of them got corrupted?
How can i restore bootloader if it's corrupted?
How can i repair bootsector if it's corrupted?
All of these things should be done from linux or from bootable CD.
When I try to boot into windows through grub it just returns to the grub menu.also system recovery options from bios just end up in grub screen too.here is boot script.From reading forums I think I need to get grub out of windows partition but I don't know how
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm relatively new to Ubuntu, I've installed it in Virtual Box and through Wubi on other computers but this was the first time that I've done a live install on my production computer. I had problems from the get go, I was using a Live CD of 10.04 (64 bit AMD) to install it and when it got to the part about choosing a partition no drives would show up at all. Eventually after some searching around, I discovered that Using an Alternate install CD would work. I did that, installing Ubuntu into one of the free partitions I had set up prior to this. Eventually my system turned on but the monitor went to sleep so I had to hit E on the grubmenu and change something to nomodeset (or something like that) so that I could see the screen. I installed Compiz and it was all good from there.
Except for One issue, I cannot boot Into windows at all, it doesn't show up on the bootloader even though the partition shows up in Gparted. I've tried updating Grub2 with no results, here are the results of Sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232 .....
i just installed Ubuntu from an ISO about a year old and of course i updated it to the latest version and when i get that screen at startup where i have a choice of which version to load i get something like this: My current version, memtest, an old installation of Ubuntu and some really old versions. The problem is i also have Windows7 and Vista installed(vista really needs to go) but i don't have either of them as a choice in the bootloader. How do i get it back? Also before the update i had it on the list.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnyhow, I'm a n00b to the Linux world, so I installed it on my Windows 7 desktop to dual boot. Current configuration is as such:160GB HDD with 3 partitions: Ubuntu Studio 10.10 on one, Win 7 on another, and the third is for storage.1TB HDD for extra storage.So far, all is well, but I'm not pleased with the default GRUB options and layout. It gives me 4 options to choose:
-Ubuntu Studio
-Memtest
-Memtest Debug Mode (or something to that effect)
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Is there any way to simply remove grub? Does GRUB reside in a specific partition? Do I have to just delete the partition that has GRUB on it?The way my bootable partitions work is something like this.
1)Installed Vista
2)Installed Ubuntu
3)Thought I removed GRUB
4)Put in new HDD(1) and installed Win7 onto it
5)Put in another new HDD(2) and put another Win7 onto that (but I disconnected every other HDD so that the bootloader would be written onto the new HDD(2). When I have all my HDD's plugged in now, I get a GRUB load error (I think it's 21).