Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Installing Windows 7 after installing Ubuntu on btrfs: how to restore boot?

I've looked at the answers on this question, but none of them solved my problem:



How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)



My system is partitioned as follows. /dev/sdb5 is Ubuntu's root partition.



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I installed Windows 7 after installing Ubuntu. All my Ubuntu partitions (except swap) have the btrfs filesystem.



Installing Windows left me unable to boot in Ubuntu. Running a live USB, the live Ubuntu was not able to find the Ubuntu partitions using os-prober, probably due to this bug.



I'd like to get Ubuntu booting again. Can you help me?

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