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I have Windows 7 installed in sda1 and Ubuntu 10.04 installed in sda5 as root and sda6 as home.

Since installing Windows after Ubuntu, I am unable to boot into Ubuntu. I booted via a live CD and followed the instructions here:

http://www.ohbuntu.blogspot.com/2009/11/repair-grub2-after-install-windows-7.html

I am having two issues:

  1. I ran grub-install which said:

    Installation finished. No error reported.

    However when I rebooted, I could not see the GRUB menu screen on startup.

  2. I created an menu entry for Windows 7 both by editing grub.cfg manually and by editing /etc/grub.d/40_custom files.

    In both cases, when I try to run update-grub, I get the below error:

    root@ubuntu:~# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?).

Any ideas?

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  • Have you looked in the Ubuntu wiki / forums already? I'm sure you can find an answer there.
    – nobody
    Commented Jul 8, 2011 at 22:45

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Yeah, I've had some challenges with Windows & Ubuntu booting as late. I've found that rather than directly using grub to manage it all, I'm having better success if I install "EasyBCD" which is a boot manager that uses BCD (the boot system now used by Windows).

It's actually quite slick and I suggest people at least give it a chance. Personally I prefer the more GNU approach, but, EasyBCD gets the job done and I don't care THAT much.. ;)

Another option I often suggest is Super Grub Disk - but that's just to help you boot an otherwise unbootable environment.

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