persianninja
Member
Hey all,
I'm running a UEFI/GPT disk ... I installed windows 1st on it (i see partitions for 100MB and 128MB respectively for Windows 7 boot loader, and its special extra 128MB partition it installs)...
Then installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04 onto separate partitions onto the same drive (/boot, /, swap, and /home partitions).
I then came back into Windows to use EasyBCD to add the linux /boot partition to the Windows boot loader so I can dual-boot... but it messed up ... a Linux entry was added but I couldn't boot into linux when i restarted my computer (i guessed that maybe I pointed to the wrong partition when setting up the partition).
So I tried to delete the old linux entry in EasyBCD and reinstall the linux entry ... but it wouldn't save the new Linux entry when i restarted my computer many times even though I kept doing 'Write to MBR' and the bottom of the app said it was successful ...
It finally saved (not sure what i did different... might have reinstalled the EasyBCD software)....
Linux still didn't load, and even Windows wouldn't load with its basic entry i didnt touch! ... (I had to go into the Windows DVD, go to the Repair functionality, and do various options to fix the GPT boot partition after EasyBCD messed up the bcd... I used basically diskpart and bcedit command line tools to get Windows loading again)...
I just downloaded the Beta to see if that works with the GPT/UEFI disk better than the 2.2 version i was using before. The 'Add Entry' and dropdowns on the linux/mac/NeoGrub tabs are greyed out... Just curious if thats a bug, and if so I can help debug it if you want me to work with the developer of EasyBCD to check into it?
Thanks!,
Arian
I'm running a UEFI/GPT disk ... I installed windows 1st on it (i see partitions for 100MB and 128MB respectively for Windows 7 boot loader, and its special extra 128MB partition it installs)...
Then installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04 onto separate partitions onto the same drive (/boot, /, swap, and /home partitions).
I then came back into Windows to use EasyBCD to add the linux /boot partition to the Windows boot loader so I can dual-boot... but it messed up ... a Linux entry was added but I couldn't boot into linux when i restarted my computer (i guessed that maybe I pointed to the wrong partition when setting up the partition).
So I tried to delete the old linux entry in EasyBCD and reinstall the linux entry ... but it wouldn't save the new Linux entry when i restarted my computer many times even though I kept doing 'Write to MBR' and the bottom of the app said it was successful ...
It finally saved (not sure what i did different... might have reinstalled the EasyBCD software)....
Linux still didn't load, and even Windows wouldn't load with its basic entry i didnt touch! ... (I had to go into the Windows DVD, go to the Repair functionality, and do various options to fix the GPT boot partition after EasyBCD messed up the bcd... I used basically diskpart and bcedit command line tools to get Windows loading again)...
I just downloaded the Beta to see if that works with the GPT/UEFI disk better than the 2.2 version i was using before. The 'Add Entry' and dropdowns on the linux/mac/NeoGrub tabs are greyed out... Just curious if thats a bug, and if so I can help debug it if you want me to work with the developer of EasyBCD to check into it?
Thanks!,
Arian