Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Sb, 13 nov 10, 22:33:25, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is not there. Instead I get a list of kernels Make sure you have os-prober installed and run 'update-grub'. You should not need to customize grub's files. The tool to show UUIDs is blkid from the package util-linux. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:33:25 +, John O Laoi wrote: I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is not there. Instead I get a list of kernels (...) What you seem to have lost is your GRUB's booting Windows entry, nothing to worry about :-) First, was windows menu there before? This is important, because if it was there, it should stay. Auto-deletion of any GRUB's menu entry could be considered a bug. If it never was present, then it's fine. Automatic detection of other OS is not always possible, although desirable. Anyway, you can always manually add an entry for your OS. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2010.11.14.11.44...@gmail.com
Where has my Windows partition gone?
Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions. The issue is now solved. I resolved it as follows: # aptitude install os-prober (It was not installed) # os-prober # update-grub First, was windows menu there before? It was, and I don't know when or how it was deleted. I assume that it happened during an update. I can't say exactly when, as I haven't looked to use the windows partition for a while. Again, Thanks everyone. John -- 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/aanlktimy4sd+vbxnwbvpa042ly2xyuqt0jdbuhm0w...@mail.gmail.com
Where has my Windows partition gone?
Hello, I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is not there. Instead I get a list of kernels But “fdisk -l” says it is still there. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 12262220972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda32623523320972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda45234 12161556491605 Extended /dev/sda55234719115727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sda671927452 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda77453 1216137825011 83 Linux Any ideas? John -- 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/aanlktin_uf1h_nmuuqpwyk8my0d2pwk-f681mqa7p...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Saturday 13 November 2010 23:33:25 John O Laoi wrote: Hello, Any ideas? John Try: update-grub 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/201011132351.54504.tchate...@free.fr
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Saturday 13 November 2010 23:51:54 Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2010 23:33:25 John O Laoi wrote: Hello, Any ideas? John 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/201011132357.19833.tchate...@free.fr
Where has my Windows partition gone?
Try: update-grub as root! Thank you. Unfortunately, this did not do the trick: # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 done Any other ideas -- 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/aanlktikw_o080bbol=17v39qpyhyqvkov3gl3nhxm...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:33:25 + John O Laoi brianol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is not there. Instead I get a list of kernels But “fdisk -l” says it is still there. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 12262220972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda32623523320972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda45234 12161556491605 Extended /dev/sda55234719115727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sda671927452 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda77453 1216137825011 83 Linux Any ideas? John Do you have os-prober installed? Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- 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/20101114001848.7ee2e...@macco.homelinux.com
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:11:03PM +, John O Laoi wrote: Any other ideas Try mounting /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 and see if they're still working right. If not, you might need to fsck them (ideally from a Windows install disk, which would call the function chkdsk). -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- 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/20101113232832.gb11...@panix.com
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
I have had grub do this sortta thing before... Check your menu.list file and see if the entry for windows is still there, I have seen it disappear or somehow be eaten. /boot/grub/menu.list I don't have an example code in front of me but you can look it up and verify it, mostly you just need to make sure there is a label and that it points to the windows partition. Remeber drive and partition numbers start with 0 (second partition on first hard drive is hd(0,1) I would so check that out before running installation scripts. Hope it's helpful; TeddyB -Original Message- From: Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:28:32 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Where has my Windows partition gone? On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:11:03PM +, John O Laoi wrote: Any other ideas Try mounting /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 and see if they're still working right. If not, you might need to fsck them (ideally from a Windows install disk, which would call the function chkdsk). -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- 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/20101113232832.gb11...@panix.com
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On 11/13/2010 5:33 PM, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is not there. Instead I get a list of kernels But “fdisk -l” says it is still there. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 12262220972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda32623523320972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda45234 12161556491605 Extended /dev/sda55234719115727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sda671927452 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda77453 1216137825011 83 Linux Any ideas? John I don't know what may be available on other disks, but the PCLINUXOS Live disk, in the live section (i.e., without actually installing PCLos) will let you go to More ApplicationsConfigurationRedo MBR and then you should be able to get your Windows back. It also provides you with a nice boot screen, unlike Ubuntu's grub version. (I don't remember what Debian's looks like.) I have used this to get boot inputs for Debian and Ubuntu, as well as PCLos andthe Windows XP which it already recognized. If you have something odd, like an extra ghost version of some system showing up, it provides a text version of the partition information which you can modify if you need to. I am on a different computer right now, but I will send to your address a copy of this text as it exists on my laptop. Note that some lines are commented out, by me, as this was a ghost problem created by Ubuntu, and showed up on their grub menu also. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- 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/4cdf346f.3040...@optonline.net
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
Hmmm, I coulda swore my testing/squeeze install had one. That's the thing I hate, everything always moving around. Grub2 has to have a config file somewhere that's comparable to menu.list to fetch it from, what is the new config file and where is it? Second, I haven't been a fan of the uuid thing mainly because I dunno how to identify a drives uuid. What is the CLi commands one would use to identify a given drive and it's uuid? Always learn something; TeddyB --Original Message-- From: Thierry Chatelet To: Tim Saunders Subject: Re: Where has my Windows partition gone? Sent: Nov 13, 2010 8:01 PM On Sunday 14 November 2010 01:52:41 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Check your menu.list file and see if the entry for windows is still there, I have seen it disappear or somehow be eaten. /boot/grub/menu.list No more menu.list with grub2 which is the default (I am guessing here) with squeeze. Also, hard drive are called by their UUID now. Thierry
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
To answer my own questions... Grub2 seems to store it's configurations in /boot/grub/grub.cfg But this file is not meant to be manually configured, it can be, but is discouraged and is read-only by default. Standard manual menu edits should be done in /etc/grub.d/40_custom This is a module system and you must run # update-grub to load the updated module. If you wanna see the auto probe results that should be in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober If your system isn't auto-detecting you windows system check to see that os-prober is installed. If not, apt-get and run update-grub. Useful information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 Apparently you can get hard disk and uuid infomation at the command line by running # blkid I haven't tested this yet but should be interesting... TeddyB -Original Message- From: teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:25:27 To: Debian Listsdebian-user@lists.debian.org Reply-To: teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net Subject: Re: Where has my Windows partition gone? Hmmm, I coulda swore my testing/squeeze install had one. That's the thing I hate, everything always moving around. Grub2 has to have a config file somewhere that's comparable to menu.list to fetch it from, what is the new config file and where is it? Second, I haven't been a fan of the uuid thing mainly because I dunno how to identify a drives uuid. What is the CLi commands one would use to identify a given drive and it's uuid? Always learn something; TeddyB --Original Message-- From: Thierry Chatelet To: Tim Saunders Subject: Re: Where has my Windows partition gone? Sent: Nov 13, 2010 8:01 PM On Sunday 14 November 2010 01:52:41 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Check your menu.list file and see if the entry for windows is still there, I have seen it disappear or somehow be eaten. /boot/grub/menu.list No more menu.list with grub2 which is the default (I am guessing here) with squeeze. Also, hard drive are called by their UUID now. Thierry
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:25:27AM +, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Second, I haven't been a fan of the uuid thing mainly because I dunno how to identify a drives uuid. What is the CLi commands one would use to identify a given drive and it's uuid? ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?
John O Laoi wrote: Try: update-grub as root! Thank you. Unfortunately, this did not do the trick: # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 done Any other ideas If you can find your active /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.cfg then add the below 3 lines to it, making sure you still have a blank line at the bottom before you save it. title Microsoft Windows at sda2 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS Alpha-1 at sda9 Registered Linux User #380263 -- 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/4cdf8cf3.6000...@gmail.com
