yehia2
April 30th, 2014, 06:56 PM
I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 8 installed. I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS along with Windows without any problems. Was always prompted to choose between Win or Ubuntu in the GRUB boot menu. Decided to upgrade from 12.04.1 LTS to 14.04 LTS. This is what happened:
----1. Downloaded and started installing 14.04. When it rebooted to finalize the installtion, it showed a black screen with the words error and "grub recover>". Nothing else. I was unable to do anything.
-----2. Used a different computer to create a USB bootable 14.04 LTS version. Changed BIOS settings to boot from USB. Used the USB drive to boot and install 14.04 LTS. Installation was completed successfully.
----3. Changed Boot order back to boot from computer. When I restarted, there was no GRUB menu, just goes straight to Ubuntu.
----4. Created a Boot-Repair USB using UnetBootin and ran recommended repair. After repair, it said "Please do not forget to make your EFI-BIOS boot on sda 1/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file!" I checked the boot menu, that is not a listed option. This is the log for the boot repair : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7367458/
My question is:
a. How can I add Windows 8 back to the boot menu ?
b. When I click on files, I can no longer mount my hard drives the same way I could when I was running 12.04.1 LTS?
Any advice would really help, as I really need to access the rest of my files. Thanks!
----1. Downloaded and started installing 14.04. When it rebooted to finalize the installtion, it showed a black screen with the words error and "grub recover>". Nothing else. I was unable to do anything.
-----2. Used a different computer to create a USB bootable 14.04 LTS version. Changed BIOS settings to boot from USB. Used the USB drive to boot and install 14.04 LTS. Installation was completed successfully.
----3. Changed Boot order back to boot from computer. When I restarted, there was no GRUB menu, just goes straight to Ubuntu.
----4. Created a Boot-Repair USB using UnetBootin and ran recommended repair. After repair, it said "Please do not forget to make your EFI-BIOS boot on sda 1/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi file!" I checked the boot menu, that is not a listed option. This is the log for the boot repair : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7367458/
My question is:
a. How can I add Windows 8 back to the boot menu ?
b. When I click on files, I can no longer mount my hard drives the same way I could when I was running 12.04.1 LTS?
Any advice would really help, as I really need to access the rest of my files. Thanks!