How to recover Ubuntu after installing Windows using Ubuntu live cd

How to recover Ubuntu after installing Windows using Ubuntu live cd

1. Boot from Ubuntu live cd and open console

2. Be administrator

sudo -i

3. Find linux partition (/dev/sda7 4409 6435 16273408 83 Linux)

fdisk -l

4. Create a mount directory

mkdir /media/root

5. Mount linux partition to this directory

mount /dev/sda7 /media/root

6. Confirm that you can reach linux directories

ls /media/root

7. Install grub2

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda

8. Reboot Ubuntu without live cd

9. Update grub to see other operating systems

sudo update-grub2

Alternatives

3. sudo gparted
9. update-grub


added 11 years ago

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