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#1 2008-02-05 11:37:55
- n8schicht
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Grub and Vista: strange behaviour...
Hi guys!
I have a rather bizarre behaviour since I installed Vista on my laptop. It's a dualboot system, the partition layout looks like this:
/dev/sda1 Windows Vista
/dev/sda2 /boot
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda5 /
/dev/sda6 /homeI can boot and shutdown Linux as often as I want without any problem. I can also load Vista up and down without any problem.
BUT after I booted Vista and I want to boot in Linux again, the screen will just stay black after I selected Linux in Grub. For a second I see a few Grub-lines and there doesn't seem to be any error message. It then should show me the 2 Arch-Logos in the upper left corner, but it doesn't, the screen just stays black. I then have to switch my laptop off (which happens surprisingly fast, no need to push the power button for 3 seconds, but only a short push). When I power it up again, I can select and boot Linux without any problem as if nothing happend.
Strange, isn't it? I also had XP installed before I decided to install Vista, and with XP I didn't have this problem. I could shutdown and boot whatever I want. But it seems like Vista is changing something on my boot-partition. Which is strange, because it shouldn't have access to that, should it?
Does somebody know where I have to look to make this strange behaviour go away?
This is my Grub setup:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I removed the "quiet" parameter from my Linux menu.lst entry, and now I can see the Grub-lines it spits out after I select Linux to boot:
Booting command-list
root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2a00, size=0x1ba458]
initrd /kernel26.img
[linux-initrd @ 0x1fe29000, 0x1c68c1 bytes]And that's it, it then just sits there forever, or until I switch ther laptop off and on again, and then it boots like nothing happened...
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#3 2008-02-08 13:34:54
- mrunion
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Re: Grub and Vista: strange behaviour...
No idea. My grub looks the same as yours.
Matt
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#4 2008-02-08 14:21:40
- pelle.k
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Re: Grub and Vista: strange behaviour...
I can't help you i'm afraid, but i can confirm this strange behaviour.
I had GAG (gag.sourceforge.net) installed to MBR as a bootloader, which then boots the linux or windows (vista) partition. In other words, i had my grub installed to the root partition (boot sector). Every time i would boot windows, none of the entries in GAG would work afterwards. So i installed grub (to MBR this time), and haven't had this problem ever since. I don't know why.
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#5 2008-02-09 12:22:58
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