Here's the bug I was referring to: bug 576724
This is a comment from that bug:
This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98+20100614-2ubuntu4
---------------
grub2 (1.98+20100614-2ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low
* Rearrange postinst install_devices logic so that preparatory code is run
only once and the while loop only encloses actual asking of questions,
and so that the question being asked is always marked for redisplay when
going round the while loop again (LP: #580408).
* Only offer partitions containing /, /boot, or /boot/grub for
grub-install; installing to other partitions may have harmful effects
such as making Windows unbootable, and installing GRUB to every single
partition is likely to result in confusion anyway (LP: #576724).
-- Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:26:37 +0100
** Summary changed:
- Windows 7 Not Booting
+ Windows 7 Not Booting after Grub installed to bootsector
** Description changed:
My computer came with Windows 7 installed on it. I wanted to try Ubuntu,
so I installed it alongside Windows 7 and everything was fine. I needed
more space on my Windows 7 partition, so I deleted the Ubuntu partition
from the hard drive. When I went to restart I got a blank screen. I
reinstalled Ubuntu allongside Windows 7 and was able to restart and boot
Windows. The next day I got the same blank screen, so I reinstalled
Ubuntu over Ubuntu, leaving the Windows 7 partition alone. After that,
when I try to boot Windows 7 it keeps sending me back to the select an
OS page. I get an error that says:
The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /media/OS
whenever I try to access the Windows OS portion of the hard drive.
When I try the command it does not work and I get a message saying that
"only root can do that"
I can not resume Windows to shut it down properly though, because I must
first unhibernate Windows.
I believe this may be a bug.
+
+ This is what the bootinfoscript reports, showing that Grub has overwritten
the bootsector, which prevents Windows from booting:
+ sda2:
__________________________________________________________________________
+
+ File system: ntfs
+ Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
+ Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda2
+ and looks at sector 1456312560 of the same hard drive
+ for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
+ for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
+ in the Boot Parameter Block.
+ Operating System:
+ Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079482
Title:
Windows 7 Not Booting after Grub installed to bootsector
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1079482/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
