android.amonra
November 12th, 2014, 07:46 PM
My laptop was running a working dual-boot Windows 7 / Ubuntu 14.04 combination (using GRUB).
After a forced installation (IT policy) of Microsoft bitlocker the laptop didn't boot anymore and only presented the GRUB rescue prompt...
I booted with a Windows 7 CD and repaired the MBR ("bootrec /fixboot" and "bootrec /fixmbr) so Windows 7 would boot back again.
Now that the laptop was booting Windows 7 again I wanted to repair GRUB so I could access my Ubuntu installation again. Here is where the issues started.
I created a boot-repair USB disk, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be able to repair my GRUB menu.
When I press the "recommended repair" no GRUB menu is installed, and the laptop just boots into Windows 7.
When I check the advanced options both GRUB location and GRUB options are greyed out.
I pasted the Boot-repair extra info : http://paste.ubuntu.com/8969210/
I "think" that my old Linux partition was sda2, however boot-repair displays it as being an ntfs partition instead of a Linux partition?
Might this be the issue why boot-repair can't repair it? Did bitlocker make these changes?
Any input/help is welcome....
UPDATE :
I was able to restore the Linux partition using Testdisk :
Testdisk Instructions
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Menu_Analyse
After a forced installation (IT policy) of Microsoft bitlocker the laptop didn't boot anymore and only presented the GRUB rescue prompt...
I booted with a Windows 7 CD and repaired the MBR ("bootrec /fixboot" and "bootrec /fixmbr) so Windows 7 would boot back again.
Now that the laptop was booting Windows 7 again I wanted to repair GRUB so I could access my Ubuntu installation again. Here is where the issues started.
I created a boot-repair USB disk, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be able to repair my GRUB menu.
When I press the "recommended repair" no GRUB menu is installed, and the laptop just boots into Windows 7.
When I check the advanced options both GRUB location and GRUB options are greyed out.
I pasted the Boot-repair extra info : http://paste.ubuntu.com/8969210/
I "think" that my old Linux partition was sda2, however boot-repair displays it as being an ntfs partition instead of a Linux partition?
Might this be the issue why boot-repair can't repair it? Did bitlocker make these changes?
Any input/help is welcome....
UPDATE :
I was able to restore the Linux partition using Testdisk :
Testdisk Instructions
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Menu_Analyse