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Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 46

DRMK when booting to W7 from grub

Hi.

I've got myself a brand new Precision M4600 laptop, and decided to dual boot Archie and Windows 7. So I received the Precision with w7 installed, btw i've got a 256gb SSD which is partitioned as shown:

[ama@ama-precision ~]$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 256.1 GB, 256060514304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31130 cylinders, total 500118192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4e92f42b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63       80324       40131    6  FAT16
/dev/sda2           81920     1622015      770048    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3         1622016   266729471   132553728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       266729472   500103449   116686989    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       266729535   275517026     4393746   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       275517090   324338561    24410736   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       324338625   500103449    87882412+  83  Linux

I installed GRUB on the mbr, install goes fine, arch goes fine (posting this message from arch, met some issues though but nvm) but when i try to boot to w7 from grub, it shows:

Booting Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Loading DRMK V8.00...
DRMK Version 8.00
COMMAND.COM Build 37 - Jul 20, 2008
DRMK KERNEL Build 15 - Aug 8, 2008
Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.

C:\>

so wtf is this dell drmk thing ? Googling didn't help me that much...

Oh and here's my menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# 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) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

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

i've also tried uncommenting the makeactive line but no help.

thanks for your help.

cybertorture

Member

Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 339

Re: DRMK when booting to W7 from grub

rootnoverify (hd0,0) = /dev/sda1
rootnoverify (hd0,1) = /dev/sda2

see whitch one is your windows installed sda2 or sda3 and point that into /boot/grub/menu.lst

aka..
# (2) Windows
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
#makeactive
chainloader +1

or

# (2) Windows
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
#makeactive
chainloader +1

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O' rly ? Ya rly Oo

AMA

Member

Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 46

Re: DRMK when booting to W7 from grub

*slammin head on computer*

thanks dude !