Hi :)
I don't have Windows on that machine at all, sorry! :) I am a bit lost about
all this efi stuff tbh. Normally i am just a point&click user so i don't
understand what is being talked about now. It's waaay over my head :(
Apols and regards from
Tom :)
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> 1. Grub displays Grub Rescue menu (Paul Lewis) (Tom Davies)
> 2. chainload to second gpt drive (Ilya Hegai)
> 3. Re: chainload to second gpt drive (Andrey Borzenkov)
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>Hi :)
>
>I suspect you have done the same as me, the same as the last thread in this
>list (which i didn't quite understand but suspect i just need to re-read
>sometime). The SSD is formatted using a GPT table rather than something
>unsuitable for SSDs?
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>What i tried was booting into my old OS and then got to a command-line and
>tried
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>sudo update-grub
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>Now i can completely successfully boot into any of the OSes on my old drive.
>There is even a listing for the new drive but when i try to use that one the
>machine fails to boot up.
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>So, i unplugged the old drive and left the new one in. A LiveCd session
>allowed me to reinstall (or install) Grub 2. So now if i have the old Sata
>Drive plugged in i get all my old OSes but if i unplug it i get the new one.
>Annoyingly the new one forces me into Mega Glest rather than regular Glest so
>i'm quite happy staying with the old one.
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>I do have a feelign that if i just set-up a small partition at the front of
>the SSD to dedicate to being a boot-partition and install Grub2 to that then i
>could have both but i think i would probably still be booting into the old OS!
>
>
>Regards from
>Tom :)
>
>Is it possible at all? Because when I'm trying to do this to boot efi windows
>left on my second drive I ether got "not a valid root device" when I set up
>root with "set root='ahci1,gpt3'" or nothing with just "chainloader
>(ahci1,gpt3)/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" without setting root, I've got
>no drivemap (former map) in my grub2 build (gentoo) btw.
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>gpt3 is efi system partition, gpt10 is ntfs partition with windows
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>ps: At least I can load my linux from new ssd (hd0) ;)В Вс., 21/10/2012 в
>20:19 +0400, Ilya Hegai пишет:
>> Is it possible at all? Because when I'm trying to do this to boot efi
>> windows left on my second drive I ether got "not a valid root device"
>> when I set up root with "set root='ahci1,gpt3'" or nothing with just
>> "chainloader (ahci1,gpt3)/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" without
>> setting root,
>
>Are you booting in UEFI mode in the first place?
>
>Does Windows boot at all if you manually boot from this file usign UEFI
>boot menu (or start it from EFI shell)?
>
>-andrey
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