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Chrys349

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From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

[solved] cannot dual boot after installing arch

I've installed Windows XP on a partition and Arch on another partition. I've added Windows in "/boot/grub/menu.lst", but GRUB cannot boot Windows. It can only boot Arch.

This is my "/boot/grub/menu.lst" :

timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img

title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img

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

And this is my partition table listed with fdisk:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *       80325    51247349    25583512+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        51247350    52295925      524288   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3        52295926   102398370    25051222+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4       102398371   312560639   105081134+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       102398373   312560639   105081133+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda1 is where Windows is installed

/dev/sda3 is where Arch is installed

Last edited by Chrys349 (2011-11-26 16:06:55)

subatomic

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-06-26

Posts: 180

Re: [solved] cannot dual boot after installing arch

GRUB cannot boot Windows. It can only boot Arch.

where's the problem?

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: [solved] cannot dual boot after installing arch

What happens when you try to boot windows?

Chrys349

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From: Romania

Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 50

Re: [solved] cannot dual boot after installing arch

couldn't figure out what the problem was (or what I did wrong in fdisk when I was trying to install gentoo), but eventually I've deleted the partitions, installed windows xp, then arch and grub, and now grub can boot both arch and win