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zacthespack

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Registered: 2013-09-16

Posts: 2

Windows (7) boots to blank screen via GRUB

I have Arch installed as my main OS however now need to get a dual boot working with Windows 7.
I have installed Windows 7 to a partition as below

sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   734G  0 part / //Arch Linux Install
├─sda2   8:2    0   100M  0 part  //Partition windows created?
└─sda3   8:3    0 197.4G  0 part //main Windows partition

My Grub.conf has the below section which has been generated by OS-prober

menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-EE8401AB840176FD' {
	insmod part_msdos 
	insmod ntfs
	set root='hd0,msdos2'
	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2  EE8401AB840176FD
	else
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root EE8401AB840176FD
	fi
	chainloader +1
}

When I boot windows all I get is a blank screen, althought the windows splash sound does play, so im not sure if this is actually a boot issue or perhaps just an issue with windows so wanted to check here first.

Thanks

elken

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From: Emacs

Registered: 2013-10-17

Posts: 67

Re: Windows (7) boots to blank screen via GRUB

If you're hearing the splash noise, it boots. No issue with GRUB.

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