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Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

jbh911 — Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:45 am

Author: jbh911

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:45 am

Too much red!

Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

Ram — Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:32 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:32 am

jbh911 wrote:

Got it sorted - can't recall the detail.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Was that too much Fosters and 4X

Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

jbh911 — Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:14 am

Author: jbh911

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:14 am

Got it sorted - can't recall the detail.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

nelz — Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:56 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:56 am

What does "won't boot" mean? Does anything happen when you select W7? If so, what? What messages, if any, do you see?

Please post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg, using code tags to keep it readable.

Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

jbh911 — Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:07 am

Author: jbh911

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:07 am

Thanks for the suggestion Mayhem. Will see how that goes.

Re: Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

Mayhem — Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:49 pm

Author: Mayhem

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:49 pm

Booting W7 and ... ? I have found some linux flavours dont play nicely, but most can be easily fixed.

Do you get a menu to choose from ?

Try boot into linux. edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg (I can hear pitch forks a-comming...)
Find your W7 entry and try changing up or down a disk number and see if that works. I've found that the numbers/letters are sometimes misleading, depending on what OS is reading them at what time.

Dual installation W7 & LM12 - W7 won't boot

jbh911 — Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:54 am

Author: jbh911

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:54 am

LM 12 installed in dual boot configuration with functioning W7. However, although W7 appears in the selection screen it won't boot from there.
I've followed the advise in the LXF 133 page 44 Troubleshooting FAQ as part of Perfecting multi-booting topic re this very issue - and it doesn't help. Are the details of that article all correct?

I have W7 is at /dev/sdb1 and LM12 at/edv/sdb5. What do I need to do to get W7 booting?