Dear Felix, I have more information. It occurred to me that karmic might not be booting because its partition started beyond 1TB. I deleted the 1TB partition at the start of sdc and installed karmic on that space and it would still only boot windows 7 (on sda) and Jaunty (on sdb) using grub legacy.
I have ediied the bios to change the hard disc boot order. sda 1st - Grub legacy boots jaunty or windows 7 sdc 1st - Boots direct to windows 7 - this disk contains Karmic and the extra windows 7 partition sdb 1st - Boots grub 2 and windows 7, Karmic or Jaunty It seems to me that the grub installer is writing the MBR to the wrong disk I hope this helps. I enclose the output of fdisk-l Best wishes Rod Jones ############################################################################################# Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xeee5a48c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 * 1 1 0 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x6434ac01 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 60798 488359903+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 60799 60801 24097+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 60799 60801 24066 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0005363b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 127480 1023983068+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 * 127483 127495 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdc3 127496 182401 441032445 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdc4 127481 127482 16065 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 127481 127482 16033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris 2009/8/20 Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de>: > Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 20:19 +0000 schrieb Roderic Jones: >> Karmic has now been installed but grub (legacy) shows only Jaunty and >> Windows!!! >> > > grub.cfg looks good. > So just make sure you load grub2 instead of grub-legacy. > Maybe the installer put it on a different disk > or just use grub-install /dev/sda from karmic so grub-legacy gets > replaced with grub2 in MBR. > > -- > Failure to boot Windows 7 after installing Karma > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414178 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Roderic Jones Trout Cottage Llanvihangel Crucorney Abergavenny Monmouthshire NP7 7NB Telephone 01873 890050 -- Failure to boot Windows 7 after installing Karma https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414178 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
