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Gossamer

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 31

My Partitions can be a little... odd.

Here's my HDD list::

sda - 300gb (Windows Vista)
sdb - 640gb (NTFS backup and storage)
sdc - 80gb (Archlinux)

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Of course; as you can guess my bootloader is installed on my Vista partition as it's set as master on my system. I listed them from highest listing to lowest.

I have successfully installed Arch, about two times now(I came from Ubuntu so bear with me) but the same problem still persists. I can't get Vista to show up under Grub no matter really... what I do. I've read the wiki but since I thought my problem was a bit more specific that I'd come here and ask for some help. Can anyone? I'd appreciate it a lot.

Last edited by Gossamer (2009-04-29 15:30:03)

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: My Partitions can be a little... odd.

welcome to arch !

please post the content of your /boot/menu.lst

There is a good chance that you haven't uncommented the section that begins with:

# (2) Windows

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Gossamer

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 31

Re: My Partitions can be a little... odd.

What bugs me is that it's listed in grub by default but doesn't show up unless you mess around with it. O.o

When grub set itself up and I had a good look over it; it knew my first HDD was my 300gb. It was listed as sda when I first installed; and was later after fdisk so I don't know why it isn't even adding it to the list. The only thing I see on Grub is Arch and the... other Arch, freeloader I believe.

The only thing on my mind is : "Do I really have to do anything. It's kind of set by default." but somehow that isn't the case; Vista doesn't even show up when grub loads.

Alright::

# (2) Windows Vista
#title Windows Vista
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#chainloader +1

Last edited by Gossamer (2009-04-29 15:46:57)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: My Partitions can be a little... odd.

Like stefan mentioned, you have to remove the # signs from those lines so that they are uncommented. They will show up in the Grub once you uncomment them. Change them so that they look like

# (2) Windows Vista
title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-04-29 15:52:39)

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Gossamer

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 31

Re: My Partitions can be a little... odd.

*facepalm*

Thanks guys, what would a person do without support? I'll try it in a bit to see if it works. Thanks!