What did you do to get the grub prompt?
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I installed windows, moved to sda3, then installed Linux to sda1.
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Ok, I managed to use GRUB to manually load the linux kernel, and run update-grub as a user on the sda1 filesysem instead of the Live CD. Now I am presented with the proper grub menu and can boot to Mint normally.
Great progress, except now I can't get into Vista. When I try I get the following error in GRUB: Code:
error: no such device: A2060A3F060A1547. Should I try the Windows "disc" and repair the boot , then reinstall GRUB via Live CD and repeat this process? Or will that just cause headaches? |
If you elect to repair vista it'll search for vista & do the repair & then yes you can reinstall your grub.
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All ms systems are particular and want to boot and reside on the first partition of the hd. There are steps you can go through to put it on other partitions. It would include having another hd to run as a slave. Here are some details how this man booted 145 using grub1, but the same can be done using grub2. I do not know if you want to go to all this trouble, you may want to consider an usb external hd.
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I just tried to repair Vista via boot disk and the repair tool could not find automatically find my Vista installation. However, using bootrec.exe it found it just fine. I repaired the MBR and rebooted and all I got was "Missing Operating System".
So after an hour of messing with it and restoring GRUB, I'm back to where I started. One OS works but not the other. All I did was make them trade places. It comes down to Linux will not boot unless it is the OS on partition 1. Windows will not boot OR install/repair unless it is the OS on partition 1. Why? Why am I the ONLY person in the world who can't do something as simple as dual boot Vista and Linux? |
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Did you use the repair options on your vista disk to repair the mbr? I think part of your problem now is that you copied vista from one partition to another, at least I think that's what you did, maybe I'm reading it wrong. Linux doesn't need to be on the first partition and it doesn't even need to be on a primary partition to boot. Windows boot files need to be on a primary partition but the OS does not. I'd check the uuid numbers. |
Yes, I installed Windows to sda1, then picked it up and moved it to sda3 as I had said I was going to earlier in the thread.
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MechaMobile mechacow # blkid Code:
menuentry "Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda3)" --class windows --class os { Quote:
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If Mint comes with Wubi, you might want to try that (or try it in Ubuntu if Mint doesn't have it). What Wubi does is it installs Linux to your Windows partition in a disk image, then adds an option to the Windows boot menu offering you the ability to boot to Linux on the hard disk image. Before trying if you can, make sure you repair the Windows bootloader.
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Doesn't really help. I know this thread has gotten long, but I said earlier I specifically want to use grub to automatically boot linux and give me the option at each startup to boot to Vista instead.
Thanks, though. |
If you are booting vista from sda3 you will need to make it is in the first partition.
One other note, sda3 must be a primary partition. On second thought that will not work because boot can not reside in partition 1, will not work if you have to hide it. |
There is nothing wrong with your vista menuentry in the grub.cfg file you posted above.
You have Grub installed in the mbr and can boot Mint so it's not likely the bootloader. You might check the /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files to see what entries you have for sda3 or which are ntfs. If there is no problem there, I expect your boot files on vista got messed up in the copying. |
I don't know what I'm looking for...
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information. Code:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0 |
The fstab and mtab entries don't show anything useful. Do you get the "no such device/disk" error in grub? does it say grub rescue?
Not sure what else to suggest. |
When I try to select Vista from the grub menu I get:
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It then goes back to the grub menu. I noticed that fstab and mtab dont seem to mention sda3 at all. |
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