sseritan
December 28th, 2014, 10:38 PM
Hey,
I originally had my 14.04 Ubuntu installed side-by-side with Windows 8.1, and everything worked perfectly. I had to reinstall the Windows partition, which overwrote the GRUB bootloader, so although the Ubuntu partition was intact, I could not get to it. I was reading that you can reinstall the GRUB boot loader with Boot-Repair, so I installed and ran Boot-Repair on Recommended Settings on the Ubuntu Live USB that I had originally installed Ubuntu from. Now, I can boot into Ubuntu just fine, but F2 doesn't get me into the BIOS like it used to, and I see no option to get into Windows. I was wondering why did this happen, and is there I way I can recover those options or undo what Boot-Repair did?
The paste link from the Boot-Repair job (from my Ubuntu Live USB): paste.ubuntu.com/9636870
A little more info:
/dev/sda is my main hard disk. sda1 and 2 are my windows partitions (system and C: drive). sda5 is my Ubuntu and sda6 is my swap for Ubuntu.
/dev/sdb is just more storage for my windows
/dev/sdc was the flash drive that I was running Ubuntu Live from.
The paste link from BootInfo from the Ubuntu on my hard drive afterwards: paste.ubuntu.com/9636922
If anyone could help me understand what happened and how to fix it, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
I originally had my 14.04 Ubuntu installed side-by-side with Windows 8.1, and everything worked perfectly. I had to reinstall the Windows partition, which overwrote the GRUB bootloader, so although the Ubuntu partition was intact, I could not get to it. I was reading that you can reinstall the GRUB boot loader with Boot-Repair, so I installed and ran Boot-Repair on Recommended Settings on the Ubuntu Live USB that I had originally installed Ubuntu from. Now, I can boot into Ubuntu just fine, but F2 doesn't get me into the BIOS like it used to, and I see no option to get into Windows. I was wondering why did this happen, and is there I way I can recover those options or undo what Boot-Repair did?
The paste link from the Boot-Repair job (from my Ubuntu Live USB): paste.ubuntu.com/9636870
A little more info:
/dev/sda is my main hard disk. sda1 and 2 are my windows partitions (system and C: drive). sda5 is my Ubuntu and sda6 is my swap for Ubuntu.
/dev/sdb is just more storage for my windows
/dev/sdc was the flash drive that I was running Ubuntu Live from.
The paste link from BootInfo from the Ubuntu on my hard drive afterwards: paste.ubuntu.com/9636922
If anyone could help me understand what happened and how to fix it, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!