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I currently have a Windows 10 - Ubuntu 14.04.3 Dual boot on my PC. The other day I was creating a partition using Disk management from Windows, and then the software crashed. I had to force shut down and when I restarted, what is see is something in the lines No partition found and a grub rescue prompt.

So, I check for a solution online, and finally found one. It said that I should direct the grub rescue to the grub file in my Ubuntu partition and gave me some steps. So I followed. This is what I do to get to the boot loader now:

set root=(hd0,msdos6)
set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub/
insmod normal
normal

The problem now is: I have to do this every goddamn time I turn on this thing. How should I command grub rescue to automatically find the file like it normally does?

David Foerster
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  • are you able to boot into Ubuntu? – Kenpachi Mar 10 '16 at 15:16
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    Do not create partitions with Windows. Use gparted. Only use Windows tools to resize NTFS partitions. Windows is even known to rewrite partition table without Linux partitions if BIOS/MBR install. But may be best to see details: Post the link to the Create BootInfo summary report. Is part of Boot-Repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info You can run from Live installer or if you can boot, from inside your install. – oldfred Mar 10 '16 at 15:19
  • @Kenpachi : Yeah.. After I type the above commands, I get my boot loader like normal times. Then I can switch between Windows and Ubuntu. – Sandesh Pulijala Mar 10 '16 at 15:37
  • @oldfred : Yeah.. I heard it from my friends many times. But somehow gparted's interface looks kinda complicated and risky 'coz I don't understand many things there. But now I learnt my lesson. – Sandesh Pulijala Mar 10 '16 at 15:39
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    Possible duplicate of [How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)](http://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub-how-to-get-ubuntu-back-after-installing-windows) – David Foerster Mar 11 '16 at 11:56

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Option 1:

Try running sudo update-grub. If that does not fix the problem, then try option 2:

Option 2:

  1. Create a file /etc/grub.d/windows10_custom
menuentry "Windows 10" {
set root=(hd0,msdos6)
set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub/
insmod normal
normal
}
  1. Run sudo update-grub

References

Ubuntu's guide to building custom menus for grub 2

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