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

[Robin Bownes]

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.

On 02/09/2016 01:12 PM, Frans de waal wrote:
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> On 9 Feb 2016 13:08, "Robin Bownes" <robin at bownes.co.za 
> <mailto:robin at bownes.co.za>> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> >
> > On 02/09/2016 11:21 AM, Frans de waal wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9 Feb 2016 10:02, "Robin Bownes" <robin at bownes.co.za 
> <mailto: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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