nothing but windows (with F12) will boot without the external drive plugged in because grub is installed on the external. On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > super grub should work on a bootable usb too: > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-step-put-super-grub2- > disk-into-an-usb-pendrive/ > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Michael wrote: > >> no cd drive.... this would be SOOOO much easier if it did! >> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: >> >>> get a super grub cd and have it repair and reinstall grub. >>> >>> Grub has two parts, it's bootsector/EFI area and it's configs. The >>> configs exist on a regular drive partition and handle all the multi-boot >>> stuff. The bootsector / EFI stuff really only knows how to point to >>> drives. >>> You could probably type in something along the lines of: >>> root (hd0) >>> chainloader +1 >>> boot >>> >>> and have it get you into windows, because that's all you're missing is >>> the conf file telling grub that's a valid boot directive. >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>>> what it does is opens a "minimal BASH-like line editing" thing with: >>>> grub> >>>> being the first line when I don't have the external drive plugged in. I >>>> typed in 'ls' and the response (when the thumb drive is inserted) was: >>>> (hd0) (hd0,msdos) (hd1) (hd1,gpt4) (hd1,gpt3) (hd1,gpt2) >>>> (hd1,gpt1) >>>> >>>> without the thumb drive it is: >>>> (hd0) (hd1) (hd1,gpt4) (hd1,gpt3) (hd1,gpt2) (hd1,gpt1) error: >>>> failure\ >>>> reading sector 0x3aefff0 from `hd0' >>>> error: failure reading sector 0x3aeff80 from `hd0' >>>> error: failure reading sector 0x0 from `hd0' >>>> >>>> So how can I install grub where it belongs in hd0? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Todd Millecam >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Check your bios boot order and ensure the proper hard drive is set >>>>> first. It's the same as hitting f12 and selecting one, only in your bios >>>>> settings you can set the default. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Okay..... I can still boot into windows. I have to press f12 and load >>>>>> it from that menu but it will load. Any way I can restore the laptop to the >>>>>> way it was when I first got it and then I'll put 17.3 on. Any comments on >>>>>> what I can do? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I messed up. I installed mint18 on my external drive but mint18 is >>>>>>> not quite ready for prime time so I figured I would put mint 17.3 on. Well, >>>>>>> durring installation I told it to put grub on the external drive. now I >>>>>>> can't boot unless the external drive is plugged in. I need the port the >>>>>>> external is plugged into because that is the only USB port it will boot >>>>>>> from and I need that port for the thumb drive. So my question is how do I >>>>>>> install grub to sda1...... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mint won't boot now! How do I RESTORE WINDOWS SO i CAN DO THIS AGAIN? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Todd Millecam >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Millecam >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Todd Millecam > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: