Upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04, can't choose Windows 7 partition

[sports fan Matt]

I upgraded to trusty and all went well but when I restart my computer, I do not see the option to choose Windows 7, which I need for teaching Microsoft and basic computer skills to my clients...How can I fix this so there is an option to select Windows 7 at boot?

[kansasnoob]

What method did you use to upgrade? Hopefully not the Live DVD:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1265192

We'll need more info, please post the boot info from Boot Repair:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

[sports fan Matt]

Kansasnoob,
This seems to be a fairly widespread issue. I upgraded through the update manager. ============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 112 for .

sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 7/2008: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

sda6: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 * 64 625,129,340 625,129,277 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 625,129,470 1,250,263,039 625,133,570 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 625,129,472 1,242,099,711 616,970,240 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1,242,101,760 1,250,263,039 8,161,280 82 Linux swap / Solaris


"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/sda1 FCE0FAB3E0FA736E ntfs
/dev/sda5 fd61cf15-c6bb-4509-a081-dc96ef731ebf ext4
/dev/sda6 0db3bc13-53f3-43ea-80e0-6773a3a6550f swap

================================ Mount points: =================================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

[kansasnoob]

Try:


sudo update-grub

And:


sudo apt-get -f install

You may have to run update-grub again after apt-get -f install.

[sports fan Matt]

It found it...so it should be okay Monday morning. What changed with I assume unity to create this whole big issue (I saw a lot of people having similar issues)