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Leon14344 09-08-2009 09:22 AM

No GRUB bootscreen after mint4win install on Win7
 
I recently re-formatted my laptop with Win7 Pro (official commercial version from MSDNAA, not the RC), and installed Mint7 using mint4win.

When prompted to reboot I did, and no bootloader appeared.

I previously had a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot going until the Win7 install restored the MBR.

Anyone know how I can get at this and solve it? It's quite annoying, as I need Mint to connect to wireless on my campus. Interestingly, Win7 won't connect due to network security, but all linux distros can connect easily with a little elbow grease.

ronlau9 09-08-2009 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon14344 (Post 3674327)
I recently re-formatted my laptop with Win7 Pro (official commercial version from MSDNAA, not the RC), and installed Mint7 using mint4win.

When prompted to reboot I did, and no bootloader appeared.

I previously had a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot going until the Win7 install restored the MBR.

Anyone know how I can get at this and solve it? It's quite annoying, as I need Mint to connect to wireless on my campus. Interestingly, Win7 won't connect due to network security, but all linux distros can connect easily with a little elbow grease.

Try the standard version of linux mint 7 it is a live and install cd

Leon14344 09-08-2009 01:51 PM

I didn't want to do a full install and further partition my hard drive (The ubuntu partition still shows up under Disk Managment, oddly), but it looks like i'll have to.

ronlau9 09-08-2009 02:09 PM

OK but mint4win can it run without windows.
If Ubuntu is still there you can restore GRUB using a rescue CD or maybe there is a repair option on the UBUNTU CD

Leon14344 09-08-2009 10:39 PM

It's not there anymore, I formatted the partition.

Actually, i'm going to close the thread as I just reinstalled Ubuntu in it's old partition. Basically, as long as I have a form of linux i'm good. I tried mint because I was tired of Ubuntu, but now I see that it didn't really matter that much.


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