On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 14:59 -0600, Timothy Wood wrote: > Makes sense to me. > > But now I have a new problem. I think that Windows is corrupt. > Ubuntu finished installing but grub didn't recognize that there's > Windows 7 anywhere, even after I manually ran update-grub. Fiddling > around either gets me grub errors or "BOOTMGR is missing." I googled > around and it looks like "BOOTMGR is missing" is a Windows error from > some point after the bootloader. And all the online solutions involve > the recovery CD. Maybe when I ran the recovery tool in the first > place, it didn't understand my partitioning (not sure why it wouldn't, > Windows is still the first one), freaked out, and damaged Windows. Is > that a valid conclusion? > > Timothy Wood
Windows 7 likes to have the BOOTMGR on a different partition than the main OS. During install, it will either create a small boot partition, or if it finds another partition already there, it will install BOOTMGR to that partition. Your BOOTMGR is most likely in your Recovery Partition. Try pointing grub there and see if it will boot Windows. Bill Miller -- Bill Miller Computer Support Representative Student Auxiliary Services [email protected] 801-422-1985 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
