locksalordy
Member
Hi,
I have been successfully (and happily) dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux (the Netrunner / Kubuntu / Debian distro) for some time but experienced an unusual problem the other day that I need some help to resolve.
The Linux instance is my usual OS and the EasyBCD default but occasionally I need to boot up Windows to do some tasks. On this occasion I selected the Windows entry from the EasyBCD boot menu, and Windows booted normally. Because I had not used Windows for a while there were quite a few Windows updates which I let run; these updates required a shutdown and restart which worked OK when I selected Windows from the boot menu.
After I finished running my Windows apps, I selected Restart as usual, got the Easy BCD menu and allowed the default Linux entry to auto start, but I got a black screen with the following entries:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No ANG0
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,2): EXT2
Ctrl-Alt-Del restarted the BIOS boot sequence and I could then get into Windows via EasyBCD but Linux was unbootable. Hell and damnation!
An fdisk -l of the hdd looks like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 81920 536905712 268411896 + 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 536905728 537882623 488448 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 537884670 976771071 219443201 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 537884672 567179263 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 567181312 574992383 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 574994432 976771071 200888320 83 Linux
The Linux boot partition is /dev/sda3.
Resetting the MBR using EasyBCD had no effect, and I did not try to do a Re-create / Repair. Instead, I booted off my backup copy of Netrunner on a bootable USB drive, then installed and ran Boot-Repair (boot-repair / Home / Home).
Boot-Repair worked but now I am booting under Grub2 control, and I would like to get back to using EasyBCD and the MS boot loader. When I had a look at the /boot/grub folder I noticed that a subsidiary boot folder was present (i.e. /boot/boot/grub). Now, in the operating boot folder (/boot/grub) there is a grub.cfg file that is not in the subsidiary boot folder (/boot/boot/grub). I'm just guessing, but it seems that Boot-Repair my have recreated /boot/grub and left the subsidiary folder as a backup and perhaps something (maybe the Windows 7 update) clobbered the grub.cfg file or tampered with the MBR in some way. Any ideas of what may have happened?
Any help getting back under EasyBCD control would be appreciated.
Thanks,
locksalordy
I have been successfully (and happily) dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux (the Netrunner / Kubuntu / Debian distro) for some time but experienced an unusual problem the other day that I need some help to resolve.
The Linux instance is my usual OS and the EasyBCD default but occasionally I need to boot up Windows to do some tasks. On this occasion I selected the Windows entry from the EasyBCD boot menu, and Windows booted normally. Because I had not used Windows for a while there were quite a few Windows updates which I let run; these updates required a shutdown and restart which worked OK when I selected Windows from the boot menu.
After I finished running my Windows apps, I selected Restart as usual, got the Easy BCD menu and allowed the default Linux entry to auto start, but I got a black screen with the following entries:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No ANG0
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,2): EXT2
Ctrl-Alt-Del restarted the BIOS boot sequence and I could then get into Windows via EasyBCD but Linux was unbootable. Hell and damnation!
An fdisk -l of the hdd looks like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 81920 536905712 268411896 + 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 536905728 537882623 488448 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 537884670 976771071 219443201 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 537884672 567179263 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 567181312 574992383 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 574994432 976771071 200888320 83 Linux
The Linux boot partition is /dev/sda3.
Resetting the MBR using EasyBCD had no effect, and I did not try to do a Re-create / Repair. Instead, I booted off my backup copy of Netrunner on a bootable USB drive, then installed and ran Boot-Repair (boot-repair / Home / Home).
Boot-Repair worked but now I am booting under Grub2 control, and I would like to get back to using EasyBCD and the MS boot loader. When I had a look at the /boot/grub folder I noticed that a subsidiary boot folder was present (i.e. /boot/boot/grub). Now, in the operating boot folder (/boot/grub) there is a grub.cfg file that is not in the subsidiary boot folder (/boot/boot/grub). I'm just guessing, but it seems that Boot-Repair my have recreated /boot/grub and left the subsidiary folder as a backup and perhaps something (maybe the Windows 7 update) clobbered the grub.cfg file or tampered with the MBR in some way. Any ideas of what may have happened?
Any help getting back under EasyBCD control would be appreciated.
Thanks,
locksalordy