Hi :)
Sorry this is not hugely helpful! Hopefully someone here will be able to help
more.
I just had a really tough time trying to install Ubuntu alongside Win7. For
some reason Win7 had used up 4 primary partitions so i 'had to' delete 2 of
them and then use "testdisk" to recover them as Logical Partitions. (I've
since found a tool that can convert Primary to Logical or Logical to Primary
without deleting anything)
Ubuntu installed fine and works well. The Grub menu seemed to work and showed
me all the Windows Recovery and Hewlett Packard Recovery bootable partitions.
However all but one of the Recovery failed to boot-up claiming that some
hardware was missing. The main Win7 also failed for same reason.
I spent a couple of days bouncing between recovering the Grub2 boot-loader and
then the Windows one and then just as i was about to give up and take it to a
shop and pay to get the Windows side fixed but suddenly it all magically
worked.
Regards from
Tom :)
>________________________________
>
> 1. Chainloading windows 7 installed on a local partition
> (Pascal COMBES)
>Hello everyone,
> I would want to submit you a problem I encountered when trying to
>install Ubuntu (on sda6) after having installed Windows 7 on a logical
>partition (sda5). Before the installation of Ubuntu, Windows 7 was on
>its logical partition (sda5) and it worked well. A detail : When
>installing Ubuntu, I put Grub on a separate boot partition (sda3).
>
> I tried to reconfigure Grub so that it boots either Ubuntu or
>Windows seven with :
>menuentry "Windows 7" {
> insmod ntfs
> insmod chain
> set root = (hd0,5)
> chainloader +1
>}
>but it didn't work : Ubuntu boots without any problem but Windows don't.
>So I tested with the search function :
>menuentry "Windows 7" {
> insmod ntfs
> insmod chain
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ${UUID_OF_MY_DISK}
> chainloader +1
>}
>and it again didn't work same problem. Notice I got the UUID with sudo
>blkid /dev/sda5.
>
>The error message was :
>Erreur lecture disque
>which means "Error reading disk". As this is in French I guess that it
>is a message from Windows, isn't it?
>
> I read a little bit on the Internet and I found some posts that I
>think said it was possible but other pretend it isn't. But none of them
>were very clear. So, I don't know what to think that is why I'm asking :
>/Can grub chainload Wi//ndows when windows is installed on a logical
>partition? /If this is possible, may you give me some hints on why I
>didn't manage to set it up? Otherwise, I will change my partition table
>and reinstall everything in a different manner (by the way can you
>confirm to me that grub can be installed in a logical partition?)
>
> I give you my partition table :
>primary /dev/sda1 (Dell stuff I cannot delete because of guarantee)
>primary /dev/sda2 (Dell stuff I cannot delete because of guarantee)/
>/primary /dev/sda3 (boot partition where grub is installed)
>logical /dex/sda5 (Windows 7)
>logical /dev/sda6 (Ubuntu)
>and some other (for data and swap) but I don't think you need them.
>
> I thank you in advance for you response and please you to excuse my
>bad English. Best regards,
>Pascal COMBES
>
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