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samstr

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Registered: 2014-11-15

Posts: 12

[Solved]Syslinux "booting... boot error" when booting Windows 7

Hello, I've set up my computer to dual boot windows and arch. Windows is on a separate hard drive and I was able to configure syslinux with a boot menu allowing me to select Windows at startup. For a long time this has worked without any problems whatsoever, but this morning I tried selecting windows and I got what is probably the most vague error message I have ever seen.
"Booting...
Boot Error"
According to this post this problem comes in when the ldsyslinux.sys file cannot be found. Unfortunately I was not able to use his suggested fix

syslinux -U /dev/sdb1

I wasn't aware that there was a -U flag for syslinux and after checking it seems that there isn't one.

Last edited by samstr (2014-11-26 04:48:55)

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,523

Re: [Solved]Syslinux "booting... boot error" when booting Windows 7

I thought about file system check. Was windows closed properly?
Seek wiki for more help and troubleshooting.

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

samstr

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Registered: 2014-11-15

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved]Syslinux "booting... boot error" when booting Windows 7

Sorry, I actually just fixed it on my own, it turns out my BIOS settings were a bit... weird. For some reason I didn't have my windows drive listed and it tried to boot a USB drive I had plugged into my computer. I just had to fix the drive order and it worked fine. Sorry about starting a fairly useless discussion.