fra_pennaz
March 22nd, 2019, 11:30 AM
Dears,
I have a machine where I used to dual-boot windows&ubuntu. I recently formatted the ubuntu ext4 partition and installed ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. I admit I overlooked "efi-uefi-mbr-legacy"... But the defaults used to be always fine, please forgive me.
Now ubuntu 18.04 boots fine but I don't see the grub prompt and I can't boot Windows, although gparted says its partitions are there.
I installed boot-repair, it says it re-installed grub (and it notices windows is there), but still no grub prompt at boot.
boot-repair output is there http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ycNtDQfCPy/
it also says "The boot files of [The OS now in use - Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS] are far from the start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them. You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the disk). This can be performed via tools such as gParted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of [Boot Repair]"; but the operation of creating a new partition is forbidden because I already have the maximum number possible of primary partition, and I am a bit afraid of deleting the /dev/sda1 NTFS primary partition (1 GiB) at the beginning of the disk with the label "SYSTEM".
Please help a poor users who usually solves its problems by himself without bothering forum expert users!
I have a machine where I used to dual-boot windows&ubuntu. I recently formatted the ubuntu ext4 partition and installed ubuntu 18.04 from scratch. I admit I overlooked "efi-uefi-mbr-legacy"... But the defaults used to be always fine, please forgive me.
Now ubuntu 18.04 boots fine but I don't see the grub prompt and I can't boot Windows, although gparted says its partitions are there.
I installed boot-repair, it says it re-installed grub (and it notices windows is there), but still no grub prompt at boot.
boot-repair output is there http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ycNtDQfCPy/
it also says "The boot files of [The OS now in use - Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS] are far from the start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them. You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the disk). This can be performed via tools such as gParted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of [Boot Repair]"; but the operation of creating a new partition is forbidden because I already have the maximum number possible of primary partition, and I am a bit afraid of deleting the /dev/sda1 NTFS primary partition (1 GiB) at the beginning of the disk with the label "SYSTEM".
Please help a poor users who usually solves its problems by himself without bothering forum expert users!