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Failure to Boot: Linux

Linux offers two common boot managers: GRUB and LILO. Everyone uses

GRUB these days; LILO is older and simpler and doesn’t support UEFI

BIOS systems.

If GRUB gets corrupted or deleted, Linux won’t start and you’ll get a

“Missing GRUB” error message at boot. (Similarly, on older systems you’d

get a “Missing LILO” error message.)

You have a couple of options to fix this problem. For GRUB2-based

systems, boot to the OS media disc/flash-media drive and let it “install” into

memory. In other words, don’t install it to the hard drive. From there, you can

access the Terminal and run the sudo grub-install command (along with the

location of the boot drive) to repair.

Failure to Start Normally

Assuming that Windows gets past the boot part of the startup, it continues to

load the graphical Windows OS. You will see the Windows startup image on

the screen, hiding everything until Windows gets to the Login screen (see

Figure 16-23). Once you log in, you’ll get the Windows Desktop or the Start

screen, depending on which version of Windows you have.

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