"No Windows Bootloader Found" In Dual Boot - How To Fix It?
I try to install MX Linux on an existing partition for Linux (ext4) in a dual boot box. The installation stops around 95% when installing GRUB. A message says "can't get GRUB installed" and to reboot and go to the grub rescue menu. After reboot the live MX, I select bootloader and find the menu. Under the menu, I select "find window bootloader" and get a message, "no windows bootloader found".
At the moment, Windows couldn't get booted from the HD. The Windows repairing process didn't help. After I reinstalled the Windows, it can get booted from HD. Now, I go back to MX Linux live from USB. I still get the error message. How to fix it? |
from mx linux live open a terminal and post the output of the following,
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sudo parted -l |
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Model: ATA WDC WD1200JD-75G (scsi) |
Can you re-install MX and run those same commands again ?. From the installed system rather than the liveCD.
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The error message is "GRUB installation failed. You can reboot to the live medium and use the GRUB Rescue menu to repair the installation". After playing the "switch to GRUB bootloader", I can't see how to fix the problem. Any advice? |
For EFI install you may need to use GPT partition table, some firmawares are choosy and may not want to boot in EFI mode from MSDOS partitioned drive.
OTOH, for legacy boot you need a small 2 MB empty non-formatted so-called Grub-BIOS partition, Grub needs it for its stage 1.5 files, methinks. If this partition is missing Grub will fail, like it does on you. If you want to use current partition table use some other bootloader, SysLinux, Lilo, whatnot. |
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Let's see those commands again from the liveCD just to see if MX did change things. |
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found GRUB bootloader at (hd0, msdos1) |
Follow these instructions here https://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-repai...ubuntu-live-cd
The partition you mount at /mnt will be /dev/sda4 The grub-install will be Code:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda |
So I guess we can assume BIOS rather than [U]EFI complications. I'd be looking in the BIOS menus for a "anti-virus" type setting that may be stopping grub updating. colorpurple21859' suggestion should test that tho'.
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This problem has been resolved with some help from a member of MX team.
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