tutaza.blogg.se - Choose operating system at startup

Sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y -force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed* Sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal: sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg -configure -a It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS. I selected to fix most frequent problems. Sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair & boot-repairīoot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says

Sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt//yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list" That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair & sudo apt-get updateĮverything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read: W: Failed to fetch 404 Not FoundĮ: Some index files failed to download.

I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened Windows booted normally. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.

I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck.

I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.

Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it! What I've tried: (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one / and swap.)Īfter installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup it simply starts up as Windows. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8.