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hendrikalexander

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-11-30

Posts: 4

(solved) Grub won't boot Vista

Hi!

Just installed Arch Linux and it is great. But after installing Arch I'm not able to boot Windowas Vista. I googled it and added Windows to /boot/grub/menu.lst. Now there is an entry for Vista, unfortunately the bootprozess fails.

Vista is sda1 and I'm able to mount the partition. So it shouldn't be damaged.

Grub says:
Booting `Microsoft Vista'
root (hd0)
Filesystem type unkown, using whole disk savedefault
Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue

After running fdisk:

Platte /dev/sda: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19457 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x28caa9e7

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       11675    93773824    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           11676       18941    58364145   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           18942       19457     4144770   82  Linux Swap / Solaris

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRU … Resolution

# general configuration:
timeout   10
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
#
#-*

# (1) Windows

hiddenmenu
default 0
timeout 1

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/05aee231-ac3d-4a06-8b9e-d51242502eba root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c38463d4-b802-419a-8255-771cbf290be6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux Fallback
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/05aee231-ac3d-4a06-8b9e-d51242502eba root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/c38463d4-b802-419a-8255-771cbf290be6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

title Microsoft Vista
root (hd0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
makeactive

Greetings and thanks in advance!
hendrikalexander

Last edited by hendrikalexander (2009-11-30 19:24:34)

M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 148

Re: (solved) Grub won't boot Vista

title Microsoft Vista
root (hd0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
makeactive

I think it should be root (hd0,0). You may need to change root to rootnoverify.

Last edited by M177ER (2009-11-30 18:15:36)

hendrikalexander

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2009-11-30

Posts: 4

Re: (solved) Grub won't boot Vista

Ok, thanks for your help.

The file now reads:

title Microsoft Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
makeactive

But still grub returns with "file not found".

M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 148

Re: (solved) Grub won't boot Vista

Remove the savedefault and see if you can boot into Vista

I don't know if this makes a diffrenence but in the wiki makeactive comes before chainloader+1

title Microsoft Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Last edited by M177ER (2009-11-30 19:16:09)

hendrikalexander

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-11-30

Posts: 4

Re: (solved) Grub won't boot Vista

It works!
Thanks alot!