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Old 04-10-2014, 07:21 AM   #16
D.J.Salemink
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@TroN-0074: that looks very helpful and I'm gonna try it. Thank you.
I also have to thank colorpurple21859 & yancek for their help so far.
Plan for near future: I'm going to really learn shell commands :-)
 
Old 04-10-2014, 01:40 PM   #17
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It looks like maybe grub is trying to install in efi mode. After
Code:
sudo chroot /mnt
do this:
Code:
sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
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exit && sudo umount /mnt/dev && sudo umount /mnt/dev/pts && sudo umount /mnt/proc && sudo umount /mnt/sys && sudo umount /mnt

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Old 04-11-2014, 03:28 PM   #18
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I've taken TroN-0047 's advice and made a boot repair disk . Ran it and it worked, in that windows 7 booted again. Now I intend to re-install Mint this way. That last link also made clear why install went wrong the first time: I allowed the installer to do partitions etc. but you have to opt to do that yourself.
 
  


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