[ubuntu-za] Can't Boot after Windows 10 upgrade

[Miles]

Hi Robin, did you come right?
Miles


On 09/02/2016 14:18, Robin Bownes wrote:
> I'm not sure Frans. So far, I've run Boot Repair, and haven't really
> trusted my limited knowledge to do anything more than that. I'll give it
> a try.
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> On 02/09/2016 01:12 PM, Frans de waal wrote:
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>> On 9 Feb 2016 13:08, "Robin Bownes"
>> <<mailto:robin at bownes.co.za>robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:
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>> > Apparently, from some reading I've done - which unfortunately didn't
>> give me anything I felt confident trying to do - the Windows upgrade
>> overwrites part of the partition table, but not the contents of the
>> partition. That is why the previously Linux partition now shows up as
>> "unknown".
>> >
>> >
>> So the partition is still mountable from a live disk then?
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>> > On 02/09/2016 11:21 AM, Frans de waal wrote:
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>> >> On 9 Feb 2016 10:02, "Robin Bownes"
>> <<mailto:robin at bownes.co.za>robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> > My daughter runs a dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows (for her games). Last
>> night, she ran the Windows10 upgrade. All went smoothly for a while.
>> However, she woke up this morning to find that, on one of the many
>> Windows install reboots, grub reported "no operating system".
>> >> >
>> >> > I've upgrade a few PCs to Windows 10 before, without any
>> problems, other than maybe having to run Boot Repair on the dual-boot
>> systems, to restore dual-boot. However, this time, Boot Repair does
>> not seem to be doing the trick. Rebooting after Boot Repair tells me
>> that all is fixed, still results in no operating system being found.
>> >> >
>> >> > Here is the info dump link from Boot Repair. I hope someone can
>> help. Please use short words, and step-by-step (with baby steps) in
>> your explanations. Thanks.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/15000541
>> >> >
>> >> > Robin
>> >> >
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>> >> I can't seem to find a ext4 linux partition in the log post you
>> posted. Maybe something went wrong there?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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