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Alright, so here is the deal:
I've got a Sony VAIO laptop, with windows Vista preinstalled on it. I want to keep it, therefore, I used gparted to shrink the partition size and installed arch on it.
Everything linux-ish is working perfectly, but GRUB doesn't want to boot Vista (saying that "file not found")
This is the setup of my partitions:
sda2 - Vista
sda3 - Arch + GRUB
And I'm wondering what's the problem.
I think that the problem might be, that sda3 is being set up as the bootable partition and I definitely can't set both of the partitions as bootable.
Did this ever occur to anyone?
The grub menu.lst entry of Vista:
50 # (2) Windows
51 title Windows Vista
52 rootnoverify (hd0,1)
53 savedefault
54 makeactive
55 chainloader +1
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You looked at this? http://apcmag.com/the_definitive_dualbo … bystep.htm - oops, says exactly what you have... Sorry, I have no experience of dual booting with windows.
Last edited by toad (2009-12-22 10:24:54)
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That ought to work. I dualboot Vista and Arch as well. Try to boot the Vista dvd and repair the start files.
If that does not work, I've had to use a workaround before, installing EasyBCD on vista, making it the default bootloader, but only having vista in the options, then reinstalling grub as the main bootloader afterwards. Good luck
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Alright, tried playing a little bit with it and found out the real problem (but not the solution)
It seems that the partition somehow "broke" and GRUB doesn't detect it as the windows one. Tried the VAIO Recovery stuff, but the only thing it told me was that "Drive C: Not found".
So, even though I guess that I'm at a wrong place right now, does anyone know a solution?
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Let's have the output from fdisk, e.g.
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 4013 32234391 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 4014 4031 144585 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4032 14593 84839265 8e Linux LVM
That's mine. Vista on the first partition, ext2 /boot on the second and encrypted LVM with everything else on the third.
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Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7a391e41
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2012 16152576 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 2013 35156 266229180 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 35157 38195 24410767+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 38196 38499 2441880 82 Linux swap / Solaris
sda1 is the VAIO recovery tool, sda2 is vista.
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