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Ryuujin

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Registered: 2009-07-04

Posts: 31

[solved] help booting into arch after windows 7 install

Hey,

I'm posting from my phone because I can't boot into arch or windows.

What I did:
- Removed swap partition because I needed another primary partition for windows
- booted into arch, worked fine.
- installed windows 7, worked fine
- installed grub (to mbr?) from the arch live CD
- grub boots to HD(0,0) like before
- checking file systems fails, will post picture.

I installed arch with the default "use whole hdd" first, so there's a root, a home and boot mount points (ext4,ext4,ext2). I just picked the space for each during the install. 

Thanks!

Last edited by Ryuujin (2010-06-21 03:56:04)

Ryuujin

Member

Registered: 2009-07-04

Posts: 31

Re: [solved] help booting into arch after windows 7 install

The image: http://i.imgur.com/ETdD8.jpg
Edit:
My /etc/fstab: http://i.imgur.com/gfIGh.jpg

Updates:
I found this thread and skipped the file system check:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=722134

I can login but my /home is not being mounted correctly so I can't access my files. Any command for mounting /home as ext4? Recommendation? Suggestion?

Picture: soon, edit: http://i.imgur.com/q6pB8.jpg

/boot apparently is mounted correctly.

Edit: I made some changes to /boot/grub/menu.lst and can now boot into windows that's something!

Final Edit:

FIXED !

I read the man page for mount (man mount) and did the following:
$su
#mount -t ext4 /dev/sda4 /home
and it didn't work...
#startx
#gparted&
saw the mount points where all wrong, /dev/sda3 was really my /home ~.~
#nano /etc/fstab
changed my /etc/fstab to reflect my findings and it finally works !

I leave everything I did in case another newbie finds it helpful.

Last edited by Ryuujin (2010-06-21 03:53:04)