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Daniman.teshome

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Registered: 2013-10-13

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[SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

i have recently installed archlinux in my 160gb notebook my partition lokks like this

 /dev/sda1  100mb [swap]
           /dev/sda2   7gb       /
           /dev/sda3   140       /home
           /dev/sda4    20gb    windows7

so first i installed archlinux with grub 2 then after intalling arch i installed windows 7 and it only boots with windows grub wont appear so i want boot windows and arch with grub dual.

Last edited by Daniman.teshome (2015-08-28 17:16:50)

Fixxer

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Registered: 2011-08-29

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

You should chroot into installed Arch Linux using Arch ISO livecd. Then install Grub in MBR of /dev/sda disk.

Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/change_root .

lucke

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

Windows obliterates GRUB, so reinstall it.

Alfie_89

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2015-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

For future notice. It's better to install Windows -> Linux, than Linux -> Windows.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … stallation

Last edited by Alfie_89 (2015-01-26 08:02:17)

Daniman.teshome

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Registered: 2013-10-13

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

yes but i cant format my hard disk i want it to be configered with our any file removed.

satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

As previously stated mount # and chroot in the install grub to /dev/sda mbr - nothing will be lost from your hdd and grub will boot in preference to winloader

Use the the beginners guide for the commands and adapt for your system

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ase_system
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … bootloader

... and always install windows first - if you did a clean windows install it may be best to install all the service packs / major updates before bothering to reinstate grub as you may find you need to repeat the process anyway

kcallis

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Registered: 2017-02-03

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

I know that doing a Windows 7 installation followed by Arch Linux is the preferred way, I somehow fell into grub allowing arch, but fails to boot into Windows. I have tried all options, but nothing works. Currently if I start with "Microsoft Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 UEFI-GPT", I get the following:

error: no such device: root
error: file '/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi' not found

My /etc/fstab shows:

/dev/sda4 /boot/efi vfat\ rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,\
codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1, \
shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0

My /boot/efi only shows EFI and below that arch_grub, boot, and grub, but no files named bootmgfw.efi. I did find that file on the Windows partition, but is not mounted automatically.

Any pointers to get the Windows partition to boot?

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED] dual booting archlinux and windows 7

Please don't necrobump, particularly solved threads: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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