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Ubuntu is okay - Old Vista is still not loading after boot-repair

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http://askubuntu.com – I have cleaned an old ubuntu - that caused my Grub loader to go crap. I have managed to put a new ubuntu instead of that - but my Vista is stil unaccessible. I have made boot-repair to run (but maybe my settings did not worked). I have checked later the MBR record correction too. Can anybody chat with me or can I share my screen? Csaba (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/19/2012

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Hi all,

I recently installed Precise next to my Vista. Now when I try to boot into Vista it attempts to load and then the bsod flashes and goes back to the grub loader. I then tried to boot into Precise and the boot just started to hang for a couple of minutes. It eventually gave me a screen notifying me that it could not locate /tmp.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1595217 for boot repair report ala Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (now running Ubuntu on DVD)

Wife's CPU (yup, I'm not in trouble yet as she doesn't know) is Vista with 10 gigs of pictures on it, and I wanted to wean her off Vista.

I have Dell Inspiron 1525; installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and everything seemed well. Then did a reboot and tried to get into Vista - but I get a black screen with working cursor and nothing else.

I tried Boot Repair and it said:

Boot successfully repaired.

[SOLVED] Boot-Repair Works! 1 year 17 weeks ago

I have a couple Toughbooks that I have set-up as multi-boot. Eventually I have gotten Easy BCD to be set up a nice looking boot screen AFTER I struggled to get all three booting.

The boot set-up, grub, grub2, windoz etc have been a pain!

OK, I have read for days and have tried many different ways, including reinstalling xp, then ubuntu a second time.

After I finish my Ubuntu install, grub runs at boot like it is supposed to.

Only grub displays Ubuntu, Ubuntu repair, memtest, and Vista recovery.

I have installed XP over the Vista partition, leaving the recovery partition alone for now. Then installed Ubuntu side by side.

I have Ubuntu and Vista in a dual installation on my PC hard drive. This has worked well until today. When I try to boot Ubuntu it starts to boot then I get a grey screen with Dell repeated 8 times across the top(my PC is a dell Vostro 200). My curser disappears so there is no way to move on.

I have a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot set up (with Grub to manage it). I am about to upgrade from vista home basic 32 bit to windows 7 ultimate. Before I do though- I want to make sure that this will not mess with my boot loader.

So, I don't know what exactly how I managed to delete the MBR record on windows partition. But let me explain what I did next, I ran the ubuntu boot repair tool and now Windows is not even listed in my grub loader.

So I went and booted with windows cd and choose repair. Then I ran ubuntu boot repair again via live cd. Here is the log http://paste.ubuntu.com/1426181/. Still no luck.

Okay, here is the deal. I installed Ubuntu 11.10 in October or so, so that it would dual boot on my laptop along with Windows Vista. I haven't had any problems with the set up since then. It would boot using the Windows boot loader which I noted was different from my desktop which would use Grub.