Simple dual boot - grub issue
Hello list, I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live CD, I installed Windows 7 on the newly created partition. Thus, so far I have the primary partitions /dev/sda1, an ext3 partition holding my Squeeze installation, and /dev/sda2, holding my Windows installation. There's also the /dev/sda3 extended partition and the /dev/sda5 swap partition. Here's a gparted screenshot taken from within my debian installation to prove my claims: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1819/mypartitions.jpg When the installation was finished, I would only boot into Windows 7. Somewhat accustomed to this loss of the Grub boot loader, I booted from my Squeeze installation CD, entered Rescue Mode and reinstalled GRUB in the MBR of my only hard drive (that corresponds to the /dev/sda1 partition). However, even though I reclaimed Grub, Grub would not detect my Windows partition on bootup, and give me the options of boot into debian. I tried reinstalling GRUB on other partitions, but Windows was (and still is) unbootable on startup. I had a look at my grub.cfg and didn't see a menuentry corresponding to the windows partition, even after running update-grub. What are the steps that I need to follow in order to dual boot my system? The only OS I have currently access to through Grub is Debian (with the option of two kernels, but that's not really relevant). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikrja8ialqovqvbyd4omfvnq5w-bvgtkuzuo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Simple dual boot - grub issue
On Monday 21 June 2010 23:56:53 Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I have had a laptop wearing Linux solely over the last few years and today I decided I'd install a Windows partition on it, with aim to dual boot. After preparing an NTFS partition by using the gparted live CD, I installed Windows 7 on the newly created partition. Thus, so far I have the primary partitions /dev/sda1, an ext3 partition holding my Squeeze installation, and /dev/sda2, holding my Windows installation. There's also the /dev/sda3 extended partition and the /dev/sda5 swap partition. Here's a gparted screenshot taken from within my debian installation to prove my claims: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1819/mypartitions.jpg When the installation was finished, I would only boot into Windows 7. Somewhat accustomed to this loss of the Grub boot loader, I booted from my Squeeze installation CD, entered Rescue Mode and reinstalled GRUB in the MBR of my only hard drive (that corresponds to the /dev/sda1 partition). However, even though I reclaimed Grub, Grub would not detect my Windows partition on bootup, and give me the options of boot into debian. I tried reinstalling GRUB on other partitions, but Windows was (and still is) unbootable on startup. I had a look at my grub.cfg and didn't see a menuentry corresponding to the windows partition, even after running update-grub. What are the steps that I need to follow in order to dual boot my system? The only OS I have currently access to through Grub is Debian (with the option of two kernels, but that's not really relevant). Thanks. Try 'update-grub' as root Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006220054.29516.tchate...@free.fr
Re: Simple dual boot - grub issue
On Ma, 22 iun 10, 00:56:53, Jason Filippou wrote: I had a look at my grub.cfg and didn't see a menuentry corresponding to the windows partition, even after running update-grub. What are the steps that I need to follow in order to dual boot my system? The only OS I have currently access to through Grub is Debian (with the option of two kernels, but that's not really relevant). Grub does not detect other OSes, the package os-prober does. Make sure it is installed and rerun update-grub. If it still won't detect your Windows you can try also writing a custom entry in the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom, but I bet the os-prober maintainer would want to know about it. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
