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Old 05-12-2015, 10:11 AM   #1
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Dual-boot grub boot-repair issue


Hello there,

I tried to install kali alongside windows and did it wrong probably. Now whenever I boot, grub loader sees only Kali and Free-DOS and doesn't see Windows.

I can still see the Windows partition in Kali and access the files however.
Searched online for a solution and saw that boot-repair could help me, however because some new update issue I cannot install it under Kali directly( see below link, it doesnt work for me).
askubuntu.com/questions/449818/cant-find-boot-repair-package-for-the-newest-version-of-ubuntu]

Long story short, I downloaded the iso version of boot-repair and tried to burn it onto a live-usb, but it doesn't load. All I get is a black screen with a terminal line running where I can't do anything.
I burned the iso using the terminal and the command below.
sudo dd bs=4M if=file.iso of=/dev/sdc
I burned the iso using unetbootin a couple of times and the same issue.


Any ideas? am I doing something wrong? How can I burn the iso disk to a live USB to run boot-repair? Or any other alternatives?

PS: first time linux user, I have no idea what am I doing so please be patient with me.





This is my output for running sfdisk -l.

Code:
sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+    118     119-    955836    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2      59654   60801-   1148-   9215829    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3        119+  59653   59535- 478214340    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda5        119+  51030   50912- 408950091+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6      58934+  59653     720-   5783368+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7      51031+  58933    7903-  63479131   83  Linux
		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (855,54,32)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (565,254,63)

Disk /dev/sdb: 1020 cylinders, 240 heads, 62 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/104/54 (instead of 1020/240/62).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 2875392 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *      0+   2704-   2705-   7592960    b  W95 FAT32
		start: (c,h,s) expected (0,37,51) found (0,32,33)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,103,54) found (945,103,54)
/dev/sdb2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
 
Old 05-13-2015, 05:30 PM   #2
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If you have one, try using your windows disk/iso to boot and repair your windows install, then use your kali install disk live to reinstall grub.
 
Old 05-13-2015, 07:01 PM   #3
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kali is a forensics system - hardly what I'd recommend for a first time user.
Being Debian based you should be able to simply run this from a terminal to get the grub cfg file rebuilt to include Windows (may need root/sudo). No need for boot-repair - which often doesn't anyway
Code:
update-grub
As for the liveCD, I'd guess the iso is bad - but I didn't see a way to verify it. The dd command you used should be ok for a hydrid iso.

Last edited by syg00; 05-13-2015 at 07:08 PM. Reason: typo, and added comment on the iso
 
  


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