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preute

Member

Registered: 2011-12-12

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Grub refuses to boot Arch on a dual boot

Hi,

After hours of trying things out and searching the web for answers, I finally gave up and joined this helpforum.
I found several similar topics, but none seemed to work.
So here's the deal.

My HDD looks like this

sda1 (/boot)
sda2 (Windows7, bootflag)
sda3 (/swap)
sda5 (/)
sda6 (NTFS ExtraData)

So i'm trying to dual boot windows7 and arch.

my menu.lst looks like this:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Windows boots fine, but when I try to boot Arch I get this

Booting 'Arch Linux'

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro

error 15: File not found

Thanks,

Chris

Last edited by preute (2011-12-12 18:51:16)

IncredibleLaser

Member

From: Germany, NRW

Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 158

Re: [SOLVED] Grub refuses to boot Arch on a dual boot

I think that the lines

root   (hd0,4)

are wrong. They are for GRUB's root (which is /boot), not /. So I think it should be

root   (hd0,0)

instead.

preute

Member

Registered: 2011-12-12

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Grub refuses to boot Arch on a dual boot

it worked!

Thank you VERY much!

Chris