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Deadvi

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Registered: 2011-10-04

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[SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

Hi,

I have installed Arch Linux and Windows 7 on my primary disk. Everything's perfect. I want to install Windows 8 on my second disk. My only problem is how do I make grub2 recognize Windows 8 on the second disk and add it to the grub file, so i can boot Arch, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Thank you for your time,

Deadvi

Last edited by Deadvi (2012-08-29 21:24:00)

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

Install os-prober.
for more info
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

That's right. Install os-prober and re-generate the .cfg.

# pacman -S os-prober
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Don't forget to mark it as solved (by editing the first post) after you're done.

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Deadvi

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Registered: 2011-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

Just a small problem. I can't boot into Arch. I've tried using the installation media and choose Boot into existing OS but it doesn't boot. Any ideas?

DSpider

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

I've tried using the installation media and choose Boot into existing OS but it doesn't boot.

If you're running it from a USB stick, press Tab over that entry and change "hd0 0" to "hd1 0".

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Deadvi

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

If you're running it from a USB stick, press Tab over that entry and change "hd0 0" to "hd1 0".

Booted into Windows 8.

DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

It overwrote the MBR from the first disk, even though you installed Windows 8 on the second disk? That's odd... Make sure that the boot order in the BIOS is right (that the drive with Arch Linux is the first to boot) and from a 2012 Arch Linux install media run:

# mount /dev/sdxY /mnt       #Your root partition.
# mount /dev/sdxZ /mnt/boot  #Your boot partition (if you have one).
# arch-chroot /mnt

And continue with the instructions from here. If you don't have a 2012 Arch Linux install media (or you only have some other "live" Linux distribution), use the old chroot way.

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Deadvi

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple Boot Arch Linux, Windows 7 + Windows 8 on second disk

Everything's working. Thank you so much DSpider and hadrons123.