I have a dual boot with windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 when I boot my PC the windows boot manager shows up and I get the choice between Windows and Ubuntu. The problem is that when I choose Ubuntu, grub shows up and give me the same choice again. This happened since I installed EasyBCD which I later removed. Is there a way to only get grub and not the windows boot manager?
Ubuntu – Remove windows boot manager and use grub instead
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I just did it in VMPlayer using EasyBCD 2.2. What I did
I installed windows 8 normally using a 20GB parition. Windows also created a system reserved partition.
Boot with ubuntu, created two partition. One for SWAP and one for
/. Most important, choose the GRUB location same as the/partition. See pic below (I think I took wrong screenshot, bootloader location should besda6in picture),
Now after installation, open up EasyBCD. Goto
Add new menu entry, selectLinuxtab, choose GRUB2 from dropdown and the disk name where we put the GRUb in step 2. Click onAdd Entry
Goto BCD deployment, and write MBR
Now boot and you should get the screen. I restarted several times, every time I got the GUI boot screen. And ubuntu works also.(I forget to change the name step3)
So you are using GRUB, selecting the windows 7 entry, selecting Windows in the windows boot manager, and then it fails with the error.
This guide should work, however I have not tested this myself and I am not responsible for any data loss. If you are paranoid I would make a entire clone of your hard drive to somewhere else.
Things you will need
- USB with the Ubuntu live desktop (aka Ubuntu installer)
- Windows 7 repair/install media
What to do:
- Boot into the Windows 7 repair/install media, and at the language screen, then press SHIFT + F10 to get a command prompt. Type
bootrec /fixmbrfollowed bybootrec /fixboot. - Reboot your PC to the hard drive. Windows should boot, without any sign of the boot manager.
- Reboot into the Ubuntu live desktop media and install boot repair, and have boot repair install GRUB (or use the command line if you know the grub-install params).
- Reboot to your hard drive, and you should see the GRUB menu with Ubuntu boot options and a Windows boot option. Boot into Ubuntu, and confirm it boots.
- Boot into Windows, install EasyBCD (if it isn't already installed), and add the Linux option to the Windows boot manager.
- Reboot your PC, select the Windows option in GRUB. You should see two options for booting at this point - one for Windows and one for Linux/GRUB that you added earlier. Select the Linux option, and if it goes back into GRUB, then the tutorial is complete and your boot system should work again!
Best Answer
A very simple solution that works for me every time is to get into bios and check for boot order. Just go to bios and put ubuntu above windows and then grub will show you.