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mongoose088

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 23

Booting Error on Windows Partition in GRUB

I have this machine with windows installed on the first partition, and Arch linux installed on the second (both primary, with Arch's being primary bootable). Arch (and Arch Fallback) boots perfectly, but when I try to boot windows, the screen flashes my grub settings (hd (0,0) makeactive, etc.) and then shoots me back to the GRUB option menu, without displaying any error message.

Here is the section my menu.lst file:
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f3be3baa-3b62-460c-8801-64b0b1cca$
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f3be3baa-3b62-460c-8801-64b0b1cca$
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

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And here is the output of fdisk -l :

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7833    62918541    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7834       12039    33784695   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           12040       12161      979965   82  Linux swap / Solaris

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When I boot Arch, the windows partition is mounted, and I can access all the files there, so I know it couldn't be corrupted. Any help you can give would be really appreciated.

Mongoose

Last edited by mongoose088 (2008-09-14 00:45:11)

rsambuca

Member

From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: Booting Error on Windows Partition in GRUB

Try taking out the rootnoverify and replacing it with the regular

root (hd0,0)

You can also try commenting out the makeactive line as well.  Just try different options by doing temporary edits to grub by pressing the 'e' key during the menu selection.  Then make your edits, and press 'b' to boot using the edited menu lines.

mongoose088

Member

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 23

Re: Booting Error on Windows Partition in GRUB

Try taking out the rootnoverify and replacing it with the regular

root (hd0,0)

You can also try commenting out the makeactive line as well.  Just try different options by doing temporary edits to grub by pressing the 'e' key during the menu selection.  Then make your edits, and press 'b' to boot using the edited menu lines.

Thanks for the reply. Removing makeactive did nothing, but removing makeactive and changing rootnoverify to regular root changed things a bit. It flashed an error that said the filesystem wasn't recognized and quickly threw me back to the boot menu. Could this point to the problem?

On a related note:
I have the program testdisk, and when I tried to check the "MFT clusters" on my windows partition, It told me that the MFT seemed ok, but they (what's they?) don't match, and that I should use chkdsk. Any thoughts there?