On 08/09/2015 12:09 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
On 2015-08-09 11:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
So I rebooted. Now I have the prompt: grub rescue> which means I have nothing, not even Win7. I don't think that I can type anything useful into that prompt. Revos have an EFI bios, right? I used to get this all the time on my Samsung Chronos, until I blew away the dual-boot and put it back into legacy (aka "working") BIOS mode. No need for this drastic action. I've dual booted Ubuntu with Windows using EFI without a problem.
Boot-Repair <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair> on a bootable USB stick will likely fix it. Under certain circumstances, Windows updates will routinely destroy grub, so keep this stick handy. Yes, boot repair is an excellent tool. The other route is to boot off of a Ubuntu live cd, click on try Ubuntu and mount your drives to /mnt. Chroot to /mnt and try to to reinstall grub. Look for errors and correct them.
Cheers, Randy
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