So I tried dual booting my desktop today which has windows 7 installed on hard disk one which only contains the windows partition. I tried to install Ubuntu 17.04 on hard disk 2, which is on a 1 tb partition (sdb4). I tried boot repair and it does not seem to have done anything of use. Now when I try to load disk 1 it gives me a error with grub rescue and when I try and load disk2 it goes in a loop where it just keeps rebooting until I stop it. I have no clue where to begin to fix this. Any help at all fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Disk 2: Partition 1: 135 mb (Microsoft reserved) Partition 2: 3TB (Basic data partition) Partition 3: 1 mb (Bios Boot) Partition 4: 1 TB (Linux Filesystem)
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You can fix your grub using your live CD.
- Boot with your Ubuntu live CD again and enter a live session.
- Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the Terminal.
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sudo update-gruband wait. - Reboot to see if your grub got fixed. If not, try typing
sudo grub-installto reinstall the grub.
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Since you can't update your grub using update-grub, I am giving you a solution (refer to Cannot update grub with parameters on live USB):
After booting the live CD, Mount your Ubuntu partition to /mnt with:
sudo mount /dev/sd*# /mnt
where /dev/sd*# is updated to your Ubuntu partition.
If you have a separate /boot partition, mount it in /mnt/boot as well:
sudo mount /dev/sd*# /mnt/boot
where /dev/sd*# is updated to your /boot partition.
Update grub with the correct root and target:
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX is the disk(not the partition) where grub is installed.
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Which drive should I be booting from? – Andrew May 23 '17 at 01:22
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Just boot your live CD first. You can fix your boot menu from your live CD. – Cynplytholowazy May 23 '17 at 01:22
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Just tried that and it is giving me the error : "/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failled to get canonical path of 'aufs'.". – Andrew May 23 '17 at 01:27
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Refer to https://askubuntu.com/questions/207663/cannot-update-grub-with-parameters-on-live-usb. See if that helps. – Cynplytholowazy May 23 '17 at 01:28
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Just did that. It's still caught in a loop. – Andrew May 23 '17 at 01:36
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Edit your post and specify all your hardware properties. I'll see what went wrong. – Cynplytholowazy May 23 '17 at 01:38
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I think I added my hardware ties. If I am missing something please let me know. – Andrew May 23 '17 at 01:43
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Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Cynplytholowazy May 23 '17 at 01:44