EasyBCD won't boot Debian after upgrade

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I have a desktop that dual-boots Debian and Windows 7. When I turn it on, it uses the Windows bootloader, as configured by EasyBCD. If I select Debian, it then chainloads(?) GRUB, which lets me select and boot a Linux kernel.

This morning, I upgraded from wheezy to jessie on the Debian side*, and when I rebooted and selected Debian, it put me into a GRUB4DOS command line. I can find the right hard drive, and by cating my grub config and using the kernel, initrd, and boot commands, I've managed to boot into Debian.

I then ran update-grub, which did some stuff and looked like it might have plausibly fixed the issue. When I rebooted, though, I got set right back into that GRUB4DOS command line. I booted from there again, but I'd rather not have to do this every time.

Does anyone know what the issue is or how I can fix it?

I think my EasyBCD version is 2.X, but I'm not sure what X is. I can find out if necessary, but that involves booting back into Windows, which means doing the GRUB4DOS dance to get back into Debian.

*I also installed task-kde-desktop, which I think is not relevant, but I'm not sure.

Sam Mussmann

Posted 2014-11-12T02:21:03.593

Reputation: 123

I don't think it'll be relayed to EasyBCD because you at least get to GRUB - albeit the GRUB rescue mode. You may need to look at your menu.lst File manually as it may be missing your Debian settings. – Kinnectus – 2014-11-12T07:28:10.500

Answers

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I'm not sure what caused the problem, but (a) upgrading EasyBCD from 2.1.2 to 2.2 and (b) adding a boot entry that explicitly specified the disk I wanted to boot from fixed my problem.

Sam Mussmann

Posted 2014-11-12T02:21:03.593

Reputation: 123

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