Ubuntu, Kubuntu, debian based systems can't detect Windows Vista

firekage · 06-16-2013, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by 273

I think you inadvertently mislead us.
You appear to have 3 GRUB installs and one LiLo install. So, which hard drive's MBR is being booted and which instance of GRUB are you seeing?

Disk with either Ubuntu or Kubuntu with their bootloader (these disk have system partition and data partition). On these systems i can't choose Vista because it is not present.

For an axample - disk with Ubuntu is Samsung 1TB, there is Ubuntu grub installed, and he can't see Vista.

firekage · 06-16-2013, 07:20 AM

I ran boot-repair, grub was reinstalled an ubuntu installation disk with his grub, and result is the same - Vista is not present:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/5770704/

firekage · 06-16-2013, 11:29 AM

As they say, if something is going to gone wrong, it would've gone even worst. After running boot-repair i can't boot to Vista ), can't boot to Slackware 14 and Slackware 13.37 (even when i choose them from the bios by hitting F9), and the same thing happens with Kubuntu - boot-repair destroyed all their bootloader, and new installed bootloader to a Ubuntu system can't detect Vista and Slackware 14. On system list there is only Ubuntu and Slackware 13.37.

Great God...

yancek · 06-17-2013, 02:32 PM

The obvious things I see in your last post are that you have windows on sda5 which is a logical partition. Hopefully, that is just a data partition because windows won't boot from a logical partition, at least the boot files need to be on a primary.

I don't know which drive/partition you have Ubuntu or Kubuntu on but you have grub.cfg files on sdf1 and sdg1. If you open each of those files and scroll down to the Slackware 13.37 menuentry you will notice that you have double quotes at the beginning of append="resume... but no double quotes at the end of that string. This is on the 'linux' line of the menuentry. Try putting double quotes at the end of that line. The same for the Slackware 14 entry. Do this on the grub.cfg file on sdg1 also. I don't know which of these you are booting from?

I have an Ubuntu grub.cfg file and a Slackware install and my entry doesn't look like yours, no append line. I also notice there is no append line for the other distros?? Not sure of the significance of that. If putting the double quotes at the end of the linux line doesn't change anything, try removing both double quotes. Did you make any of these modifications manually or is this a result of os-prober or update-grub. I would also suggest you make notes as to what you do when making these changes.