I have an older Windows computer that has one drive with Windows 7, one drive with Windows 10 and a third SSD with Zorin 18 Pro. Bios is not set to UFI mode. I used EasyBCD to set up a triple boot configuration, which has the bootloader pat set to \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
When I start the computer with the \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr bootloader, the computer winds up with grub> I do not know how to proceed.
I'm sort of in the blind because I do not know how to see the Zorin files with Windows.
I ran a Linix boot repair disc and it generated the following report:
boot-repair-4ppa2081 [20251105_0002]
============================= Boot Repair Summary
==============================
Recommended repair: ____________________________________________________________
The default repair of the Boot-Repair utility will reinstall the grub2 of
sdc5 into the MBR of sdc.
Grub-efi will not be selected by default because legacy Windows detected.
Additional repair will be performed: unhide-bootmenu-10s
/boot/efi removed in sdc5/fstab
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sdc5/etc/default/grub
======================= Reinstall the grub2 of /dev/sdc5 =======================
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdc5 grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.12-1ubuntu7.3+zorin2
==> Reinstall the GRUB of /dev/sdc5 into the MBR of /dev/sdc
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdc5 grub-install /dev/sdc
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
chroot /mnt/boot-sav/sdc5 update-grub
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.14.0-33-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-33-generic
Found Windows 10 on /dev/sda2
Found Windows 7 on /dev/sda3
Found Windows 10 on /dev/sdb1
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Unhide GRUB boot menu in sdc5/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Boot successfully repaired.
You can now reboot your computer.
Please do not forget to make your BIOS boot on sdc (ATA CT1000BX500SSD1) disk!
The boot files of [sdc5 (end>100GB)] are far from the start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them.
You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the disk). This can be
performed via tools such as gParted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of
[Boot Repair]. (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootPartition)
============================ Boot Info After Repair ============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub. It also embeds following components:
modules
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
fshelp ext2 part_msdos biosdisk
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows XP: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda4: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda6 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 7/2008: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 8 or 10
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb6 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb7: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb7 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb8: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 2000/XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb8 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdc1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdc2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Zorin OS 18
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub
/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
================================ 4 OS detected
=================================
OS#1 (windows): Windows 10 on sda2
OS#2 (windows): Windows 7 on sda3
OS#3 (windows): Windows 10 on sdb1
OS#4 (linux): Zorin OS 18 (18) on sdc5
================================ Host/Hardware
=================================
CPU architecture: 64-bit
Video: GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost] from NVIDIA Corporation
Live-session OS is Linuxmint 64-bit (Linux Mint 21.2, victoria, x86_64)
===================================== UEFI
=====================================
BIOS/UEFI firmware: 2103(4.6) from American Megatrends Inc.
The firmware is EFI-compatible, but this live-session is in Legacy/BIOS/CSM mode (not in EFI mode).
b4041c77d7f10c36861203da493662ef sda3/Boot/bootx64.efi
b4041c77d7f10c36861203da493662ef sda3/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
76c1ab75037265cbe84a872c44ddcec2 sda3/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi
============================= Drive/Partition Info =============================
Disks info: ____________________________________________________________________
sda : notGPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, has-win,
63 sectors * 512 bytes
sdb : notGPT, no-BIOSboot, has-noESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, has-win,
63 sectors * 512 bytes
sdc : notGPT, no-BIOSboot, has---ESP, not-usb, not-mmc, has-os, no-wind,
2048 sectors * 512 bytes
Partitions info (1/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
not-far
sda2 : is-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sda3 : is-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sda5 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sda6 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdb1 : is-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdb5 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdb6 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdb7 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdb8 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
end-after-100GB
sdc1 : no-os, 64, nopakmgr, no-docgrub, nogrub, nogrubinstall, no-grubenv, noupdategrub,
not-far
sdc5 : is-os, 64, apt-get, signed grub-pc grub-efi , grub2, grub-install, no-grubenv,
update-grub, end-after-100GB
Partitions info (2/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, vfat
sda2 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid,
bootmgr, is-winboot, ntfs
sda3 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid,
bootmgr, is-winboot, ntfs
sda5 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sda6 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sdb1 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, haswinload, no-recov-nor-hid,
bootmgr, is-winboot, ntfs
sdb5 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sdb6 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sdb7 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sdb8 : isnotESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ntfs
sdc1 : is---ESP, part-has-no-fstab, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, vfat
sdc5 : isnotESP, fstab-has-goodEFI, no-nt, no-winload, no-recov-nor-hid, no-
bmgr, notwinboot, ext4
Partitions info (3/3): _________________________________________________________
sda1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda2 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda3 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda5 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sda6 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sda
sdb1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdb5 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdb6 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdb7 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdb8 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdb
sdc1 : not--sepboot, no---boot, part-has-no-fstab, not-sep-usr, no---usr, part-
has-no-fstab, no--grub.d, sdc
sdc5 : not--sepboot, with-boot, fstab-without-boot, not-sep-usr, with--usr, fstab-
without-usr, std-grub.d, sdc
fdisk -l (filtered): ___________________________________________________________
Disk sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x93c973c1
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sda1 63 5397839 5397777 2.6G b W95 FAT32
sda2 * 5413900 564138539 558724640 266.4G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda3 564154598 923432264 359277667 171.3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda4 923448318 1953520064 1030071747 491.2G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
sda5 923448381 1439697104 516248724 246.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sda6 1439713221 1953520064 513806844 245G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: 0x830450a5
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdb1 * 63 419441084 419441022 200G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sdb2 419441085 1953520064 1534078980 731.5G 5 Extended
sdb5 419441148 726636014 307194867 146.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sdb6 726636078 931448699 204812622 97.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sdb7 931448763 1443440249 511991487 244.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sdb8 1443440313 1953520064 510079752 243.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk sdc: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk identifier: 0xf11a3919
Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
sdc1 * 2048 1050623 1048576 512M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
sdc2 1052670 1953523711 1952471042 931G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
sdc5 1052672 1953523711 1952471040 931G 83 Linux
parted -lm (filtered): _________________________________________________________
sda:1000GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:ATA WDC WD1002FAEX-0:;
1:32.3kB:2764MB:2764MB:fat32::;
2:2772MB:289GB:286GB:ntfs::boot;
3:289GB:473GB:184GB:ntfs::;
4:473GB:1000GB:527GB:::lba;
5:473GB:737GB:264GB:ntfs::;
6:737GB:1000GB:263GB:ntfs::;
sdb:1000GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:ATA WDC WD1002FAEX-0:;
1:32.3kB:215GB:215GB:ntfs::boot;
2:215GB:1000GB:785GB:::;
5:215GB:372GB:157GB:ntfs::;
6:372GB:477GB:105GB:ntfs::;
7:477GB:739GB:262GB:ntfs::;
8:739GB:1000GB:261GB:ntfs::;
sdc:1000GB:scsi:512:512:msdos:ATA CT1000BX500SSD1:;
1:1049kB:538MB:537MB:fat32::boot, esp;
2:539MB:1000GB:1000GB:::lba;
5:539MB:1000GB:1000GB:ext4::;
blkid (filtered): ______________________________________________________________
NAME FSTYPE UUID PARTUUID LABEL
PARTLABEL
sda
+-sda1 vfat 1F18-422D 93c973c1-01 BOOT
+-sda2 ntfs 6EEA8304EA82C7B3 93c973c1-02 Windows7
+-sda3 ntfs 01D1CA97C5905CE0 93c973c1-03 Windows7_New
+-sda4 93c973c1-04
+-sda5 ntfs 01CEBA331435ED60 93c973c1-05 CD_Files
+-sda6 ntfs 01CEBA3315560360 93c973c1-06 DVD_Files
sdb
+-sdb1 ntfs 6EEA8304EA82C7B3 830450a5-01 Windows10
+-sdb2 830450a5-02
+-sdb5 ntfs 01CEBA306A640760 830450a5-05 Files
+-sdb6 ntfs 01CEBA306CD618D0 830450a5-06 Internet
+-sdb7 ntfs 01CEBA3211670B60 830450a5-07 Photos
+-sdb8 ntfs 01CEBA3213BC9420 830450a5-08 Storage
sdc
+-sdc1 vfat EB03-3CEA f11a3919-01
+-sdc2 f11a3919-02
+-sdc5 ext4 9b141543-1eda-408b-a1ff-c57d9150c0de f11a3919-05
sdd
sde
sdf
sdg
sdh
sdi
sdj
Mount points (filtered): _______________________________________________________
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 2.6G 0% /mnt/boot-sav/sda1
/dev/sda2 163.3G 39% /mnt/boot-sav/sda2
/dev/sda3 97.3G 43% /mnt/boot-sav/sda3
/dev/sda5 98.1G 60% /mnt/boot-sav/sda5
/dev/sda6 215.1G 12% /mnt/boot-sav/sda6
/dev/sdb1 123.8G 38% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb1
/dev/sdb5 48.7G 67% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb5
/dev/sdb6 60.3G 38% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb6
/dev/sdb7 226.2G 7% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb7
/dev/sdb8 63.3G 74% /mnt/boot-sav/sdb8
/dev/sdc1 511M 0% /mnt/boot-sav/sdc1
/dev/sdc5 848.8G 2% /mnt/boot-sav/sdc5
Mount options (filtered): ______________________________________________________
/dev/sda1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-
1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/sda2 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda3 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda5 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sda6 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdb1 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdb5 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdb6 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdb7 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdb8 fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
/dev/sdc1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-
1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro
/dev/sdc5 ext4 rw,relatime
====================== sdc5/boot/grub/grub.cfg (filtered) ======================
Zorin OS 9b141543-1eda-408b-a1ff-c57d9150c0de
Windows 10 (on sda2) 6EEA8304EA82C7B3
Windows 7 (on sda3) 01D1CA97C5905CE0
Windows 10 (on sdb1) 6EEA8304EA82C7B3
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
UEFI Firmware Settings uefi-firmware
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
========================== sdc5/etc/fstab (filtered) ===========================
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdc5 during installation
UUID=9b141543-1eda-408b-a1ff-c57d9150c0de / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sdc1 during installation
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
======================= sdc5/etc/default/grub (filtered) =======================
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release; echo ${NAME:-Ubuntu} ) 2>/dev/null || echo Ubuntu`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
GRUB_DISABLE_MEMTEST=true
==================== sdc5: Location of files loaded by Grub ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
31.914302826 = 34.267721728 boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img 1
2.336746216 = 2.509062144 boot/vmlinuz 1
2.336746216 = 2.509062144 boot/vmlinuz-6.14.0-33-generic 1
2.336746216 = 2.509062144 boot/vmlinuz.old 1
2.322261810 = 2.493509632 boot/initrd.img 2
2.322261810 = 2.493509632 boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-33-generic 2
2.322261810 = 2.493509632 boot/initrd.img.old 2
===================== sdc5: ls -l /etc/grub.d/ (filtered) ======================
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18123 May 17 13:12 10_linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43192 May 17 13:12 10_linux_zfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14513 May 17 13:12 20_linux_xen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 786 May 17 13:12 25_bli
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13120 May 17 13:12 30_os-prober
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1174 May 17 13:12 30_uefi-firmware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 722 Jul 11 07:24 35_fwupd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 May 17 13:12 40_custom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 May 17 13:12 41_custom
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