No GRUB after WIN7 install

[SinfulAnimosity]

Hi,

I'm trying to dual-boot Mint and Windows 7 Ultimate. I have a 70 gig partition for Mint and a 400 gig partition for Windows 7.

Mint installed just fine. Windows also installed perfectly. But it seems that I have no GRUB, and it just defaults to Windows 7 unless I use my CD that I burned.

I recall seeing the usplash screen once, but it was very brief and it only listed Mint.

Should I stick with booting Mint up from the CD and letting Windows take default OS? Or is there a way to get GRUB back?

[Capt Turk]

Give this a look, and a try. I found it by using the search bar at the top of the screen. You can save yourself a lot of time, most times, by searching the forum first. Most of the time, someone else has already had the problem, and a solution is already posted.


GUI

1. Boot your computer up with Ubuntu CD
2. Go through all the process until you reach "[!!!] Disk Partition"
3. Select Manual Partition
4.

Mount your appropriate linux partions / /boot swap .....
5.

DO NOT FORMAT THEM.
6. Finish the manual partition
7. Say "Yes" when it asks you to save the changes
8. It will give you errors saying that "the system couldn't install ....." after that
9. Ignore them, keep select "continue" until you get back to the Ubuntu installation menu
10. Jump to "Install Grub ...."
11. Once it is finished, just restart your computer

Command line

1. Boot your computer up with Ubuntu CD
2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3.

Go SuperUser (that is, type "sudo -s"). Enter root passwords as necessary.
4. Type "grub"
5. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0,1)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the following lines.
6. Type "root (hd0,1)", or whatever your hard disk + boot partition numbers are for Ubuntu.
7. Type "setup (hd0)", to install GRUB to MBR, or "setup (hd0,1)" or whatever your hard disk + partition nr is, to install GRUB to a partition.
8. Quit grub by typing "quit".
9. Reboot and remove the bootable CD.



This was found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto

[SinfulAnimosity]

About the instructions you posted:

The Ubuntu CD would be the Mint CD that I burned, correct? Or should I put in the original Ubuntu CD, like Karmic Koala?

[Capt Turk]

Yes, the Mint CD. Since Mint is built on Ubuntu, pretty much what ever works in Ubuntu will work in Mint.

[SinfulAnimosity]

Okay. I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly.

GRUB loaded fine, Mint boots okay and everything. Only problem is that Windows 7 is not recognized in GRUB

[Aging Technogeek]

SinfulAnimosity,

Check out this site, especially the comments

http://blog.lokonopa.com/grub-up-windows-7/

Hope something mentioned there works for you.

[SinfulAnimosity]

I looked at the website, but it didn't really help me that much.

I put in the Mint CD that I made and it recognized that there was more than one OS, but I couldn't go through and edit GRUB or anything like that. Otherwise I would've had to wipe my hard drive again.