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gobbledigock

Member

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 2

Windows does not boot from GRUB menu

Hi,

I tried to do a dual-boot today.
My laptop had Windows 7 on it - I freed up some space to put Archlinux on it.
The installation now completed, I'm finding that Windows 7 does not start when I select it from the GRUB menu when I start up this laptop. When I press Enter... it's as if I didn't press Enter - nothing happens at all whatsoever.

Here are some pertinent pastes:

My fstab file:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0
UUID=434af644-1899-49a5-a5cd-9817e516d604 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=55d30d39-0e7b-4766-8084-e11d29a166e5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=7b9be97e-9d1c-459b-9219-fea8c0ab8f23 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=f7001062-2ca0-4b68-aa87-47fddf642b2b /home ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1

here's an output of df -h:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   10M  264K  9.8M   3% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/434af644-1899-49a5-a5cd-9817e516d604
                       14G  1.6G   12G  12% /
shm                   1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3              92M   32M   55M  37% /boot
/dev/sda7             104G  188M   99G   1% /home
/dev/sda1              79G   43G   36G  55% /home/effect/windows

here's the main part of /boot/grub/menu.lst file:

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Windows 7
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
chainloader+1

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/434af644-1899-49a5-a5cd-9817e516d604 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/434af644-1899-49a5-a5cd-9817e516d604 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

I would be extremely grateful for any help in getting Win7 to be operational again (it's important to me because I need it for school).

Thanks

Last edited by gobbledigock (2010-12-25 08:36:05)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Windows does not boot from GRUB menu

Your makeactive and chainloader lines have typos. I'm not sure where you referred to, but please go refer back to those sources.

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gobbledigock

Member

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 2

Re: Windows does not boot from GRUB menu

Man, good eye for detail.

I see that I was missing a space before the +1

Thank you so very, very, very much. I was getting so frustrated over this.

Last edited by gobbledigock (2010-12-25 09:06:59)