a little help with MBR stuff please

[Lloyd Kvam]

The MBR points to the boot loader, presumably GRUB in your Ubuntu boot partition. If
you can boot Ubuntu, this part is done and works.

You need to configure GRUB to know about the Windows partitions.

I have not used dual boot in many years; virtualization is more convenient. You
should be able to search out the GRUB configuration stuff. If this is current Ubuntu,
you are using GRUB2. The rules and configuration are totally different from the old
GRUB 1. Make sure you are using the right documentation.

On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:43 -0500, jsf wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an old Lenovo T440 laptop.  It had 3 partitions:  windows 8.1,
> windows 10 and ubuntu.  Recently the ubuntu partition became corrupted.. (I
> don't remember now exactly what happened, I just know that all of a sudden
> I wasn't able to boot into ubuntu).  I have since re-installed ubuntu.. I
> can see that the two windows partitions are still there, but I have
> completely lost the ability to choose, at boot, which OS I want to go
> into.  This is not my area of expertise.  I would prefer not to just start
> all over from scratch.  I hope someone here can recommend a process whereby
> I can get the master boot record (I think that's what the issue is) to ask
> me at boot whether I'm looking to startup Ubuntu, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Joshua
> 
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