error while dual booting linux mint 14 with windows 8

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tsea

error while dual booting linux mint 14 with windows 8

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hello friends , i have successfully installed linux mint 14 on my laptop alongwith windows 8(already installed and working). i referred to the article posted here: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/14/dual-boot-mint-13-matecinnamon-and-windows-8-on-uefi-hardware/
and installed GRUB on separate space,i.e not replacing window's MBR. after succefull installation it restarted and boot into windows 8. there, as given in article, i used program EASYBCD and added an entry for GRUB in windows boot menu. i selected grub2 as a type of grub. what other things i did there are, i selected linux mint as my default os, and also gave it first preference by using 'up' key, and shifting mint upper in position than windows 8(actually i don't know what it really does, and also suspect this step for all problems that later appeared).now when i started the system, i first got option to select my os, but both choices were: linux mint 14(cinnamon) and whatever i select, i get following error:
GRUB4DOS 0.4.5b 2011-11-27, Mem:625k/2929M/0M,End:35560D
[Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported for the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename]
grub> _

and then underscore keeps blinking. i don't know where the problem has occured but i suspect either the grub has replaced MBR or the system couldn't find any one of GRUB or MBR. please help me friends. have found a lot of posts on above type of error but all of them have different causes. waiting for your replies. and thanks in advance.
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tsea

Re: error while dual booting linux mint 14 with windows 8

Post by tsea »

hello friends, i used boot-repair tool with its 'recommended repair' option. now i can boot into mint 14, find also two entries for windows 8 but soon i click any of them, i again enter same error. i.e i can only boot into mint 14 now. the link for report generated by 'boot-repair' tool is : http://paste2.org/geBZAbvH please help how to boot into both OS as i have few important programs in windows too. thanks in advance for viewing this thread and giving your precious time.
gollum17

Re: error while dual booting linux mint 14 with windows 8

Post by gollum17 »

If you have a live cd/usb you could just try reinstalling it, overwriting the previous lm install in the process, and see if the issue still persists.

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