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LINUX boot loader missing

Asked by raja

i have vista on my c: drive . next to that i installed Linux mint. when i boot i first get linux boot loader and then windows vista loader.
one fine day i upgraded my vista to home premium. after several restarts i got vista home premium in my system properties.
what happened i don no . LINUX mint boot loader not found. Straight away goes to windows VISTA boot loader.

LINUX boot loader is missing. directly only boots to VISTA.

anybody if came acrosss same problem can help me.!

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Best AHMED HZAMI (ahmed-hzami) said : 		#1

This Problem is because vista !!!
If you install vista with any distribution of linux (Mint or Ubuntu...), in
the first time it work properly but after several booot vista boot loader
block Linux boot loader "Grub" and your computer boot directly to vista.
The problem is caused by Vista and not Linux. It's is knowen problem. you
can reinstall the grub boot loader again with this steps:
0- Put your live CD

1- Go to cammand line

2- Write this code *sudo grub*

3- it will send you something like these lines:

*[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
         the first word, TAB lists possible command
         completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
         completions of a device/filename. ]

grub>*
4- *find /boot/grub/menu.lst.

It will send you somthing like this:

**grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
(hd0,7)*
*
"(hd0,7) " is the number of your disks.

5- Now put this code **" root (hd0,7)* " with the right numers of disks if
you don't have (hd0,7) or any other number like (hd0,5) or (hd0,5) .....

6- Now put this code *setup (hd0)
This will reinstall Grub into your MBR (Master Boot Record).

7- Now type **quit and reboot your system *
* *****And that's it enjoy.

If this doesn't work you must remove Vista and install Windows Xp.
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raja (rajakrammohan) said : 		#2

Thanks hazmi