2

I have encountered an issue while setting up a new SSD. Before incorporating the new drive, I had a partitioned HDD, Windows 7 (manufacturer installed) on one partition, with Debian on the other partition. Grub was installed on this hard drive, and upon boot I would filter through the list of bootable OSs and choose what I wanted, Debian or Windows.

Now with a new SSD, I installed Kali on it for fun and when asked about installing Grub, I hit some issues:

If I install Grub on the original HDD, then I am no longer able to find my Debian partition as a boot option. Both the Windows side of the HDD and Kali on the SSD work, but Debian is not listed.

If I install Grub on the new SSD itself, then the original HDD is no longer able to be found when booting, and when it boots the SSD as a result, I just get the blinking cursor and have no options.

I am new to this and trying very hard to solve my own problems. I am not worried particularly about loss of crucial data, and I of course do not need all these distros by any means, I am simply trying to have fun trying different things, but this has presented quite the issue.

If there is any more information I can provide please let me know. Thanks!

1 Answer 1

0

Try using Boot-Repair, a tool which fixes this kind of problems.

If you still have access to Debian, boot in and run this in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

This will add the required PPA to your sources, and will also install and run Boot-Repair.

Once it's open, just click "Recommended repair" and cross your fingers!

If you need any further information about this, you can take a look here.

Also, let me recommend you to use virtual machines for this kind of experiments (testing new distros, messing up with them...), because if you break anything, it won't affect your main system. A very good, and free program for that is VirtualBox.

0

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .