repair grub after win7 reinstall
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:04 pm
I've been running a triple boot for a while with the following order of installs:
first installed winxp
second installed win7 64bit
third installed LMDE
LMDE has since become my preferred OS, but I need to keep some apps from Windows - yes I know i could run them in virtualbox, but they're graphics programs requiring too much video and system resources for that.
After a while struggling with Win7 64bit driver issues, i decided to scrap both Win7 64bit, and XP and install only Win7 32 bit, whilst keeping LMDE
The install went fine, and as you'd expect, I cannot boot into LMDE after without reconfiguring grub, which is turning out to be more complicated than I would like.
Fristly, I noticed that from the LMDE boot dvd there is no rescue option... is that normal?
Right now I booted LMDE using Supergrub2 boot disk, but I'd like to get the boot menu properly fixed.
I have already ran update-grub from terminal, and grub detected and re-added Windows 7 to the list
Can I now simply remove the boot flag from the Win7 partition and add it to my LMDE partition instead? Or are there more steps I need to take?
Win7 is installed on sda2, but the mbr seems to be in sda1 (a 100mb partition created during win7 install)
LMDE is installed on sda5
Does anyone have any advice how to complete this grub repair?
first installed winxp
second installed win7 64bit
third installed LMDE
LMDE has since become my preferred OS, but I need to keep some apps from Windows - yes I know i could run them in virtualbox, but they're graphics programs requiring too much video and system resources for that.
After a while struggling with Win7 64bit driver issues, i decided to scrap both Win7 64bit, and XP and install only Win7 32 bit, whilst keeping LMDE
The install went fine, and as you'd expect, I cannot boot into LMDE after without reconfiguring grub, which is turning out to be more complicated than I would like.
Fristly, I noticed that from the LMDE boot dvd there is no rescue option... is that normal?
Right now I booted LMDE using Supergrub2 boot disk, but I'd like to get the boot menu properly fixed.
I have already ran update-grub from terminal, and grub detected and re-added Windows 7 to the list
Can I now simply remove the boot flag from the Win7 partition and add it to my LMDE partition instead? Or are there more steps I need to take?
Win7 is installed on sda2, but the mbr seems to be in sda1 (a 100mb partition created during win7 install)
LMDE is installed on sda5
Does anyone have any advice how to complete this grub repair?