Hello Community,
I previously had the following GRUB setup:
- Dual boot Windows 7 and Mageia 1
- 10 sec time to choose at startup
- Mageia as default
And it worked at first (display at startup, choose) but now (since about 2 weeks ago) it always boots up Windows without asking.
Three possible causes (Dont know if any of these broke something):
- I used the great function in KDE to restart into a specific boot option.
(Leave -> Restart -> Dropdown)
The Laptop then restarts directly into e.g. Windows without displaying the GRUB screen.
(flashes the same blue-green screen it does now)
- I remembered a kernel update in the meantime.
- I installed the SP1 for Windows 7 and activated it
Then i tried booting with the LiveCD and writing the mbr back with the GUI
(Control Center -> Boot -> Set up boot system) but it didnt work.
I mounted and opened /mnt/LinuxOnHarddisk/boot/grub/menu.lst with kwrite and found it complete empty.
There are however some stage1, stage2 etc. files.
Questions:
- How to write a correct grub/mbr entry?
- How to manually boot into installed Mageia as a quick fix.
Thanks in advance
Fabian