Boot manager error! Vista not gettin booted after fedeora is installed.

shanky.cs · 07-05-2009, 06:45 AM

Guys plz help me solve the prob..

I recently bought a Toshiba laptop with inbuilt vista. I installed fedeora 11 yesterday. After dat i'm not able to boot into vista but fedeora is workin perfectly. Is there any solution to solve this prob. Plz help me solve this one.

ronlau9 · 07-05-2009, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by shanky.cs

Guys plz help me solve the prob..

I recently bought a Toshiba laptop with inbuilt vista. I installed fedeora 11 yesterday. After dat i'm not able to boot into vista but fedeora is workin perfectly. Is there any solution to solve this prob. Plz help me solve this one.

Before Fedora is really booting just after GRUB is loaded hit the escape key and see if vista is not there as a option ?
If she is not there give us the menu.lst and the outcome of the command fdsik -l(L lower case)
In case you did not know menu.lst is at /boot/grub/menu.lst

PTrenholme · 07-05-2009, 09:08 AM

Unless you told anaconda (the Fedora installer) to resize the NTFS partitions on your laptop, anaconda will have re-partitioned and reformatted your entire disk for use by Fedora and your Vista will no longer be available.

This is easy to check: Boot Fedora, start a terminal window, and enter the command su - to log in as "root" in that terminal window. (The dash after the "switch user" (su) command is to change the environment to the new user's environment.)

Then enter the command fdisk -l /dev/sd? to list the partitions on your hard drive(s). If you still have your Vista partitions available you should see something like this:

Code:

Peter@dv9710us:~ $ su -
Password:
[root@dv9710us ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sd?

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa602a602

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        8820    70846618+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            8821       17926    73143945    5  Extended
/dev/sda3           17927       19457    12297757+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5            8821       13184    35053767   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           17550       17926     3028221   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           13185       17549    35061831   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00032256

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              26       38913   312367860   8e  Linux LVM
[root@dv9710us ~]#

In the listing above, I've highlighted the Vista partition in red and the two Fedora partitions in green. (The laptop I'm using has two drives, with Fedora on the second drive.)

If you don't see any NTFS partition(s), you no longer have Vista installed on your laptop, and you've erase everything from your Vista system. If you have a Vista backup on some other media, you might be able to restore the Vista, but, otherwise, you're committed to Linux.

If you do see a NTFS partition, enter this command mount -t ntfs-g /dev/sda1 /mnt -o rw,defaults (where the /dev/sda1 should be the string that fdisk associated with the NTFS partition) to mount the Vista file system, and then open a file manager from the Fedora menu and use it to verify that the contents of the Vista system are intact.