Kali Linux and Windows 8: Switching MBR to GRUB

Question

I'm trying to install Kali Linux (amd64) alongside Windows 8 (x64). I have prepared suitable free disk space (the second and third partition were formated to ext4 (the first, the primary, NTFS)), and I placed Kali Linux there. The last thing done by Installator was to prepare GRUB. My Windows 8 was succesfully identified (as Windows Vista) and whole process ended without any errors. Unfortunatelly, when I'm booting my PC now, it still uses MBR, so that the newly installed Kali Linux is not recognized.

I tried proceeding with the installation twice. Always with same results.

How do I successfully replace MBR with Kali Linux's GRUB?

Solution

If you only used the Kali Linux graphical installer, maybe you could try and install GRUB manually with:

grub-install /dev/sdX

grub-mkconfig /boot/grub/grub.cfg

If GRUB is not working, you can still add Kali Linux to the Windows boot menu with the program EasyBCD. How to do it is explained in Dual-boot Windows 7 and Kali Linux at step number 3.

Comments

[Travis Weston]

What is /dev/sdX supposed to point to? The boot partition, or the Kali partition?