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yawns

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Registered: 2010-05-31

Posts: 68

[SOLVED] can't boot into windows using grub

EDIT: After searching a bit more I kept noticing references to, "chain loading." I don't know what that means, but I uncommented the "chainloader" line in my menu.lst and am now happily (wait what) booting into Windows. I guess I'll leave this up in case anyone else has the same problem.

I just installed Arch onto the same physical drive that I have Windows 7 on. When I try to boot into Windows now, GRUB just blinks very quickly and does nothing.

[mike@robots ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Password: 

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2bd2c32a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13       30407   244140803+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           30408       30662     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           30663       60801   242091517+  83  Linux

I'm not sure what that, "Partition 1 does not end..." message means or if it matters. I used to have Mint on sda4. All I did when I installed Arch was format sda4 and put Arch on it. During the installation process, I let it re-install and configure GRUB on sda1. At least I think that's what it did.

Here's my menu.lst:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

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

If I need to provide any more information, please ask. Thanks.

Last edited by yawns (2010-05-31 23:51:41)

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED] can't boot into windows using grub

Oh oops, saw you already solved it.:rolleyes:

Last edited by schen (2010-06-01 00:53:13)