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Boot-Repair is a tool to fix Windows/Ubuntu problems either after installing Ubuntu or Windows. Use this tag if you used the software in any way.

Boot-Repair is a tool that fixes Windows and Ubuntu problems either after installing Ubuntu or Windows. It is popular among the Ubuntu community. Boot-Repair can be run on a Ubuntu installation or live CD, or you can also run Boot-Repair from its own live CD.

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How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)

I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu. How can I get Ubuntu back?
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Windows 10 upgrade kills grub and boot-repair doesn't help

I've just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 on my partitioned laptop that has Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Grub no longer appeared on boot so I ran boot-repair from an Ubuntu liveUSB. This didn't seem to have any effect. I've checked and secure…
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How to install the Boot-Repair tool in an Ubuntu live disc?

When the bootloader (GRUB) is broken, I cannot access neither Ubuntu nor Windows. I heard that an easy solution to fix this is to use the Boot-Repair tool from an Ubuntu liveCD (or liveUSB). What are the steps to do this?
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How do I get my HP laptop to boot into grub from my new efi file?

I have an HP Pavilion Sleekbook 14 laptop that I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot with the original windows 8. I used boot-repair to get set up to boot into grub. My issue is that I have not been able to get it to boot straight off the new efi…
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Which commands to convert a Ubuntu BIOS install to EFI/UEFI without boot-repair on single boot hardware?

Accidental BIOS mode install I have Intel 64-bit hardware with UEFI setup utility. Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS was installed as the only operating system on the only drive attached. Accidentally Ubuntu was installed in BIOS/CSM/legacy mode. Convert to…
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ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell

I am using Ubuntu 14.04. I ran in terminal sudo apt-get update. Then I rebooted the system. And now I see: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell initramfs:_ I can't boot up LIVE Ubuntu from USB flash drive. Yes, I…
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Error on Ubuntu boot up - "recovering journal"

Trying to figure out what this means: I got into the GRUB menu, chose Advanced Options, boot in recovery mode, login as root, and I did: root@xps:~# sudo fsck -f / fsck from util-linux 2.27.1 e2fsck 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/nvme0n1p2 is…
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Dual boot Win 8 / Ubuntu loads only Win

My computer is a Sony Vaio Notebook. I used Ubuntu and Win 8 with dualboot but windows somehow managed to remove the menu to choose the OS at startup. I think the BIOS is UEFI. Secure boot was disabled already and Boot Repair somehow fails. How can…
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Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu

After upgrading Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04, grub failed to load Ubuntu and threw the error symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found. I followed the solution offered in the Bug Report but this failed for me, throwing the error failed to get canonical…
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"GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition" while using boot-repair

Since I updated Windows to 8.1 my Grub menu disappeared. I ran Ubuntu using Live USB, I used Boot-Repair but something went wrong. If I click on Reccomended repair I get this error: GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition (>1MB,…
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Dual boot with Windows 10 broken after update

Until a few days ago I had a fine working dual boot with Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows 10, using Grub2. Then Windows decided it needed to perform some updates. After the update, my system booted directly into Windows, skipping Grub. So in order to get…
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Does the Boot Repair output contain private information?

I have successfully recovered my system with the help of a software called Boot Repair. After the recovery, it sent some information to Ubuntu Pastebin, something like this one. Does this kind of paste contain private information?
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Make boot partition using GParted in Boot-Repair

How do I create a BIOS boot partition with GParted? I am using Boot-Repair.
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Unable to boot Windows 8 after Ubuntu installation

I installed Ubuntu on a pc with Windows 8 preinstalled. After installation Grub showed Ubuntu entries and Windows 8 Boot Manager (or something similar), selecting it I got: /EndEntire file path…
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Windows 8 won't boot via GRUB after installing Ubuntu with boot-repair

I've just purchased a new Acer Aspire V3-771G laptop which came pre-installed with windows 8. I shrunk the main windows partition and installed Ubuntu 12.10. I then had to run boot-repair to be able to boot to Ubuntu. Here's the pasted report. This…
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