How to install GRUB loader or dual booter

paintedbull · 04-11-2011, 10:55 PM

So I was running Linux Mint, then made a partition and installed Windows 7. But now I can't figure out how to get back to linux because there's no loader/dual boot option on startup, so it automatically goes to windows.

How would I go about installing this?

Thanks.

EDDY1 · 04-11-2011, 11:08 PM

Linuxmint cd or dvd will work
http://www.kabindra.com.np/2011/02/h...r-grub2-linux/

Photon Blizzard · 04-11-2011, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paintedbull

So I was running Linux Mint, then made a partition and installed Windows 7. But now I can't figure out how to get back to linux because there's no loader/dual boot option on startup, so it automatically goes to windows.

How would I go about installing this?

Thanks.

Greetings,

There's a win7 boot manager program called BCEdit. It's free and it should fix you right up.

Good Luck.

paintedbull · 04-12-2011, 12:44 AM

Okay, so I followed the post linked in the first response, and now my computer just boots into the grub prompt. I've tried but can't get it to do anything...

Now i'm stuck with either grub prompt or Mint's LiveDVD, which im on right now.

anybody able to help?

EDDY1 · 04-12-2011, 01:01 AM

Post output of cfdisk -l

Form linuxmint cd run
update-grub

paintedbull · 04-12-2011, 01:09 AM

I think I actually fixed it by accident just doing that same process over again.

Thanks for the help. I'm not sure how to mark this as solved, but I think it is

EDDY1 · 04-12-2011, 01:25 AM

Are both systems up and running?
Mark thread as solved at top of 1st post.