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#1 2009-10-22 23:00:59

jayjay44
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Registered: 2009-10-22
Posts: 3

Grub won't load Windows

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e33818c9-a658-448a-aa7a-0daa49d7c138 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e33818c9-a658-448a-aa7a-0daa49d7c138 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          12       96358+  83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13        8249    66163702+   5  Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3   *        8250        9729    11884320    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5              13          42      240943+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6              43         954     7325608+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7             955        8249    58597056   83  Linux

My windows is on /dev/sda3, the partition is primary. The installation is in tact as far as I can see when I browse it. I get no error message when I try to boot into Windows, it simply stalls and I just see the Grub info, "title Windows" etc.

Thanks for the help, hope you guys can fix me up!

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#2 2009-10-22 23:09:26

graysky
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Re: Grub won't load Windows

Hmm... mine is simply:

title           Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
root            (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

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#3 2009-10-22 23:10:26

flamelab
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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)
Registered: 2007-12-26
Posts: 2,160

Re: Grub won't load Windows

## (2) Windows 7
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

This is what I have.

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#4 2009-10-23 00:17:59

RetroX
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Registered: 2009-10-17
Posts: 106

Re: Grub won't load Windows

GRUB can't chainload off extended partitions.  Not sure about GRUB 2, though.

Last edited by RetroX (2009-10-23 00:18:08)

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#5 2009-10-23 07:27:00

jayjay44
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Registered: 2009-10-22
Posts: 3

Re: Grub won't load Windows

RetroX wrote:

GRUB can't chainload off extended partitions.  Not sure about GRUB 2, though.

It's not an extended partition.

One weird thing is cfdisk and fdisk see it as a NTFS partition, where as parted sees it as "linux-swap"... probably not significant but worth mentioning.

Last edited by jayjay44 (2009-10-23 07:29:06)

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#6 2009-10-24 21:27:00

Engelbrekt
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Registered: 2007-11-17
Posts: 38

Re: Grub won't load Windows

Your partitions doesn't seem to be aligned to cylinder boundaries. Maybe that is what is confusing GRUB?
What tool did you use to layout the partitions?
Have you tried booting Windows with an external boot loader such as "Smart Boot Manager" or "Ultimate Boot CD"?

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#7 2009-10-25 08:25:49

vacant
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From: downstairs
Registered: 2004-11-05
Posts: 816

Re: Grub won't load Windows

Did you install Windows to sda3 or did you move it there? If you moved it, there will be no Windows bootloader found when grub chainloads to it.

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