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LinuxChick

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From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 37

syslinux, dual boot with win7

I successfully removed Grub and got syslinux installed. I "can" get both Arch and Win7 to boot, BUT Win7 always initially starts up in Recovery mode, so I cancel, reboot and it starts right up. However, now in order to boot arch, I have to run a live Cd to change the boot flags back to the proper partition because windows has stolen the boot flag.  Thoughts?

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LinuxChick

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From: Saskatchewan, Canada

Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 37

Re: syslinux, dual boot with win7

Well.. Minutes after posting this it hit me! If windows insists on booting the recovery partition.. I probably told it to! Went in and changed the windows entry in syslinux.cfg to the correct device and waa laa ! Problem solved.

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71GA

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 282

Re: syslinux, dual boot with win7

I successfully removed Grub and got syslinux installed. I "can" get both Arch and Win7 to boot

How did you make dual boot work using syslinux? In this topic:"https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168819" guys are telling me right now me that it can't be done.

Please respond.

Last edited by 71GA (2013-08-26 00:37:18)

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jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: syslinux, dual boot with win7

I successfully removed Grub and got syslinux installed. I "can" get both Arch and Win7 to boot

How did you make dual boot work using syslinux? In this topic:"https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168819" guys are telling me right now me that it can't be done.

Please respond.

Don't do this. You have your own thread; crossposting soliciting support in other threads is selfish.

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clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

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Re: syslinux, dual boot with win7

I successfully removed Grub and got syslinux installed. I "can" get both Arch and Win7 to boot

How did you make dual boot work using syslinux? In this topic:"https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168819" guys are telling me right now me that it can't be done.

Please respond.

@71GA: We already gave you LinuxChick's solution in your original thread (specifically ssyslinux.cfg was generated correctly and I had to correct the changes that you made to a correct file). The problem is that you've done something completely unrelated to the bootloader, so LinuxChick's solution won't work for you.

@LinuxChick: Could you please mark your thread [Solved]?

Last edited by clfarron4 (2013-08-26 00:46:35)

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