Darren Everden
Member
Hi,
I have the commercial version of EasyBCD on my lab laptop (Lenovo X230) and followed the Windows before Linux guidance to install Kali Linux alongside Windows 10. All was working fine - dual boot setup with EasyBCD worked OK with the only difference being I had to use the Grub Legacy setting (instead of Grub 2) to get Kali to boot (otherwise I was just dropped into Grub4DOS).
I then needed to test a distro of Security Onion which unfortunately doesn't allow you to easily install Grub onto a partition (like Kali). Instead it overwrites your MBR.
I did my testing with Security Onion, then want to revert back to Kali alongside Windows 10. I thought this would be easy to achieve with EasyBCD.
I repaird the Windows MBR with;
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /RebuildBcd
I reinstalled Kali and installed Grub to the partition on /dev/sda6.
I created a new entry in EasyBCD for Kali pointing to the correct partition with the Grub Legacy option.
Now whenever I boot and choose Kali I get a blank screen with a flashing cursor (almost like there is no Grub on /dev/sda6). But there is.
I've tried various different combinations of settings but none of them work. Yet, I have had this working before with no problems!
I'm running out of ideas as to what could be wrong.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Darren
I have the commercial version of EasyBCD on my lab laptop (Lenovo X230) and followed the Windows before Linux guidance to install Kali Linux alongside Windows 10. All was working fine - dual boot setup with EasyBCD worked OK with the only difference being I had to use the Grub Legacy setting (instead of Grub 2) to get Kali to boot (otherwise I was just dropped into Grub4DOS).
I then needed to test a distro of Security Onion which unfortunately doesn't allow you to easily install Grub onto a partition (like Kali). Instead it overwrites your MBR.
I did my testing with Security Onion, then want to revert back to Kali alongside Windows 10. I thought this would be easy to achieve with EasyBCD.
I repaird the Windows MBR with;
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /RebuildBcd
I reinstalled Kali and installed Grub to the partition on /dev/sda6.
I created a new entry in EasyBCD for Kali pointing to the correct partition with the Grub Legacy option.
Now whenever I boot and choose Kali I get a blank screen with a flashing cursor (almost like there is no Grub on /dev/sda6). But there is.
I've tried various different combinations of settings but none of them work. Yet, I have had this working before with no problems!
I'm running out of ideas as to what could be wrong.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Darren