longgone Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 Well ... just did an install of Win-7 .. it appears that the install went just fine .. but the problem lies in the boot loader ... I am using grub .. and this is the entry that I put in it ... title windows7root (hd1,0)chainloader +1In order to do this install I unplugged the hd0 hard drive ,, since I have already learned that Win will hijack it if I don't do that .. during this install when it came to the part to select the partition .. it told me that Win would make changes .. okay so I have a 100mb section that is listed as system (whatever that is for) and a large partition (a little under 90gb) for the install ...the question is how do I get Win-7 to boot up .. I have also tried (hd1,1) which did not work either ...what do I need to do to .. get it to boot all the way up Quote
lewmur Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 Well ... just did an install of Win-7 .. it appears that the install went just fine .. but the problem lies in the boot loader ... I am using grub .. and this is the entry that I put in it ... title windows7root (hd1,0)chainloader +1In order to do this install I unplugged the hd0 hard drive ,, since I have already learned that Win will hijack it if I don't do that .. during this install when it came to the part to select the partition .. it told me that Win would make changes .. okay so I have a 100mb section that is listed as system (whatever that is for) and a large partition (a little under 90gb) for the install ...the question is how do I get Win-7 to boot up .. I have also tried (hd1,1) which did not work either ...what do I need to do to .. get it to boot all the way upThis is assuming you are using legacy grub:title windows7root (hd1,0)map (hd0) (hd1)map (hd1) (hd0)makeactivechainloader +1 Quote
longgone Posted July 19, 2010 Author Posted July 19, 2010 "legacy" grub is just the plain old grub and not the grub2 .. y/n ?? Quote
lewmur Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 "legacy" grub is just the plain old grub and not the grub2 .. y/n ??yes Quote
Peachy Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 lewmur's GRUB stanza is the solution. The map command tells GRUB to use the MBR on the second drive. The boot drive must have a drive signature of 0x80h and that's what the map command does to fool the bootloader into thinking because the Windows drive will have a signature of 0x81h Quote
longgone Posted July 19, 2010 Author Posted July 19, 2010 All is good ,, it works .. I now have Win7 too ...Thanks to all ... Quote
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