installed Ubuntu gnome - think messed up the boot loader

[Lance]

Glad I could help.

Lance




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 From: Hadi <hadirezaei at gmx.com>
To: Lance <lbsolost at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu-GNOME at lists.ubuntu.com" <Ubuntu-GNOME at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: installed Ubuntu gnome - think messed up the boot loader
 


Hi Lance
Thanks!  boot-repair fixed my problem!
It did magic lol. great.


On 2/20/2014 3:01 AM, Lance wrote:

I'm quite rusty at dealing with boot issues but Boot Repair may help:
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>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
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>The specific issue you're describing is explained here:
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>http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Boot_Sector
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>Lance
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> From: Hadi <hadirezaei at gmx.com>
>To: Ubuntu-GNOME at lists.ubuntu.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:20 PM
>Subject: installed Ubuntu gnome - think messed up the boot loader
> 
>
>Hello!
>
>I've installed Ubuntu gnome alongside of windows 7, though
              since i had two partitions, i  went through the manual
              installation.
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>before mentioning my problem, I'll say what i have done.
>I had three partitions:
>/dev/sda1: 100mb
>/dev/sda2: 160gb  (my windows partition)
>/dev/sda3:330gb  (for my ubuntu gnome)
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>I have selected /dev/sda3 for Linux installation and  set
              the formatting options.
>Then, i accidentally chose the /dev/sda1 for putting the
              grub booter, do to the orca  (the screen reader) being 
              buggy in  the partitioning screen, it kept forcing me to
              fumble around with the keyboard.
>
>What is happening now is that i can't load windows. I
              can't see the grub menu do to my visual impairment, but i
              suppose that the last item is always  windows 7. i  hold
              down  the down arrow key for 5 seconds then press enter,
              and nothing happens.
>I believe i have messed up something by installing grub in
              /dev/sda1 which was 100mb?
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>Thank you
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