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longmains

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[SOLVED] Syslinux no windows

Just installed Arch Linux on my laptop which also has Windows XP.

This is the first time using syslinux with Arch. Can't get it to boot into my Windows XP install.

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63             127597679    63798808+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2   *   127597680   158850719    15626520   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       158850720   161844479     1496880   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4       161844480   234441647    36298584   83  Linux

My syslinux.cfg file operating systems...

LABEL arch
        MENU LABEL Arch Linux
        LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
        APPEND root=/dev/sda2 ro
        INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL archfallback
        MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
        LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
        APPEND root=/dev/sda2 ro
        INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND sd0 1

Tried sd0 2, sd1 1. Still not booting windows.

Any ideas?

Last edited by longmains (2012-11-05 22:02:05)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux no windows

did you try hd0 instead of sd0?

longmains

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Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux no windows

Thanks Scimma - that works.

DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux no windows

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ainloading

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