Windows 7 64 bit and Megeia 2 dual boot problem
 

Ihave Windows 7 installed and I recently installed Megeia 2. My problem is I can not boot into Windows. I installed Grub and when I select Windows it fails to boot. I wentand looked at each partition and this is what is stated.
sda1 label: Dell Utility, drive letter C: (just a guess) FS: FAT16
sda2 label: Recovery, FS: NTFS-3G, Partition booted by default for MS-DOS boot not for lilo, drive letter D: (just a guess).
sda3 mount point:/media/windows, drive letter E (just a guess) FS:NTFS-3G mounted.
How can I get sda3 to be booted by default for MS-DOS?

Magia 2 runs grub 1, ( grub legacy ). Go to the directory /boot/grub/ there will be a file there called menu.lst. Copy and paste it here.

Where did you install grub to? MBR, or some partition?

It would help if you open a konsole, and as root run the command 'fdisk -l' ( without quotes. Copy and paste the output. That will tell us what partitions you have, FS type, etc.

Thank you for your fast response.
Grub is installed in the MBR.

fdisk -l output
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 81920 41627647 20772864 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 41627648 1416997259 687684806 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 1417000914 1953520064 268259575+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1417000960 1494800054 38899547+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1494802432 1559590199 32393884 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 1559592960 1953520064 196963552+ 83 Linux

menu.lst
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 5

title Windows 7 Home Premium
root (hd0,2)
chainloader +1

title Megeia 2
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Megeia_2 root=UUID=4d2ce8e0-8a41-41ab-b9b9-0968044ab981 splash quiet resume=UUID=d8092216-4e79-445b-8190-031fbeb6e167 vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title Megeia 2-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Megeia_2-nonfb root=UUID=4d2ce8e0-8a41-41ab-b9b9-0968044ab981 resume=UUID=d8092216-4e79-445b-8190-031fbeb6e167
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title Megeia 2 failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Megeia_2_failsafe root=UUID=4d2ce8e0-8a41-41ab-b9b9-0968044ab981 failsafe
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=4d2ce8e0-8a41-41ab-b9b9-0968044ab981 splash quiet resume=UUID=d8092216-4e79-445b-8190-031fbeb6e167 vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title desktop 3.3.8-2.mga2
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2 BOOT_IMAGE=desktop_3.3.8-2.mga2 root=UUID=4d2ce8e0-8a41-41ab-b9b9-0968044ab981 splash quiet resume=UUID=d8092216-4e79-445b-8190-031fbeb6e167 vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2.img

Ooops I installed grub in MBR.

Looks to me as if your boot partition for W7 is sda2, so change root (hd0,2) to (hd0,1) and give it a try.

Well I tried it and it worked thank you. I thought I had tried sda2 before. So many things so little time so much confusion. Again my thanks.