[Bug 1079482] Re: Windows 7 Not Booting

[bcbc]

Here's the bug I was referring to: bug 576724

This is a comment from that bug:


This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.98+20100614-2ubuntu4

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grub2 (1.98+20100614-2ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low

  * Rearrange postinst install_devices logic so that preparatory code is run
    only once and the while loop only encloses actual asking of questions,
    and so that the question being asked is always marked for redisplay when
    going round the while loop again (LP: #580408).
  * Only offer partitions containing /, /boot, or /boot/grub for
    grub-install; installing to other partitions may have harmful effects
    such as making Windows unbootable, and installing GRUB to every single
    partition is likely to result in confusion anyway (LP: #576724).
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:26:37 +0100

** Summary changed:

- Windows 7 Not Booting
+ Windows 7 Not Booting after Grub installed to bootsector

** Description changed:

  My computer came with Windows 7 installed on it. I wanted to try Ubuntu,
  so I installed it alongside Windows 7 and everything was fine. I needed
  more space on my Windows 7 partition, so I deleted the Ubuntu partition
  from the hard drive. When I went to restart I got a blank screen. I
  reinstalled Ubuntu allongside Windows 7 and was able to restart and boot
  Windows. The next day I got the same blank screen, so I reinstalled
  Ubuntu over Ubuntu, leaving the Windows 7 partition alone. After that,
  when I try to boot Windows 7 it keeps sending me back to the select an
  OS page. I get an error that says:
  
  The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
  properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
  mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
  For example type on the command line:
  
              mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /media/OS
  
  whenever I try to access the Windows OS portion of the hard drive.
  
  When I try the command it does not work and I get a message saying that
  "only root can do that"
  
  I can not resume Windows to shut it down properly though, because I must
  first unhibernate Windows.
  
  I believe this may be a bug.
+ 
+ This is what the bootinfoscript reports, showing that Grub has overwritten the bootsector, which prevents Windows from booting:
+ sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
+ 
+     File system: ntfs
+     Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
+     Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda2
+                        and looks at sector 1456312560 of the same hard drive
+                        for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
+                        for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
+                        in the Boot Parameter Block.
+     Operating System:
+     Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD

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Title:
  Windows 7 Not Booting after Grub installed to bootsector

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  My computer came with Windows 7 installed on it. I wanted to try
  Ubuntu, so I installed it alongside Windows 7 and everything was fine.
  I needed more space on my Windows 7 partition, so I deleted the Ubuntu
  partition from the hard drive. When I went to restart I got a blank
  screen. I reinstalled Ubuntu allongside Windows 7 and was able to
  restart and boot Windows. The next day I got the same blank screen, so
  I reinstalled Ubuntu over Ubuntu, leaving the Windows 7 partition
  alone. After that, when I try to boot Windows 7 it keeps sending me
  back to the select an OS page. I get an error that says:

  The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
  properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
  mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
  For example type on the command line:

              mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /media/OS

  whenever I try to access the Windows OS portion of the hard drive.

  When I try the command it does not work and I get a message saying
  that "only root can do that"

  I can not resume Windows to shut it down properly though, because I
  must first unhibernate Windows.

  I believe this may be a bug.

  This is what the bootinfoscript reports, showing that Grub has overwritten the bootsector, which prevents Windows from booting:
  sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

      File system: ntfs
      Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
      Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda2
                         and looks at sector 1456312560 of the same hard drive
                         for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
                         for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
                         in the Boot Parameter Block.
      Operating System:
      Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD

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