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#1 2010-02-10 15:40:34

Canute
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From: Norway
Registered: 2007-04-23
Posts: 21

Dual booted Grub-settings on an encrypted arch-install

So I recently installed arch on my SATA drive (which is /dev/sda). I encrypted it with the encryption scheme in the standard installer and everything (to my knownledge) is working fine. Now here's the kicker, I want to dual boot Windows 7. I have already installed it on an old IDE drive. However there's a problem, due to how my motherboard recognized the harddrives the Windows 7 drive becomes /dev/sda and arch becomes /dev/sdb. So I set up my BIOS to boot from the SATA drive, and grub loaded as it should, but it failed when trying to boot Arch.

I tried just changing to /dev/sdb for the root drive in grub, and I also tried using map (hd0) (hd1) and map (hd1) (hd0). Neither worked.

What grub-settings do I need to have this dual-boot work smoothly?

- Knut

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#2 2010-02-10 17:52:51

sj87
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Registered: 2010-02-06
Posts: 6

Re: Dual booted Grub-settings on an encrypted arch-install

Maybe you should try mapping sd1 to sd0 instead of the hd* variants?

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#3 2010-02-12 15:27:32

Canute
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From: Norway
Registered: 2007-04-23
Posts: 21

Re: Dual booted Grub-settings on an encrypted arch-install

sj87 wrote:

Maybe you should try mapping sd1 to sd0 instead of the hd* variants?

This is a setting for GRUB, and from what information I can gather it doesn't seem to work that way.

Anyone else know anything?

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