[Bug 414178] [NEW] Failure to boot Windows 7 after installing Karma

[Roderic Jones]

os-prober gives:

/dev/sdc2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain

fdisk -l gives:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeee5a48c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       30401   244196001    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4   *           1           1           0    0  Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6434ac01

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       60798   488359903+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb2           60799       60801       24097+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5           60799       60801       24066   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005363b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1      127482  1023999133+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2   *      127483      127495      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS

There is no grub.cfg as I have completely removed Karmic so that I
could get things working again.

I have just backed up and I will install Karmic and send you what the
grub.cfg contains later.

2009/8/19 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de>:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 02:22 +0000 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker:
>>
>> menu.lst had windows booting from hd(0,0) and this needed changing to
>> hd(1,1) to work although I had calculated it should be hd(2,1)
>>
>> It is all working fine now. I wonder if Grub 2 can cope with windows 7
>> booting from a second partition?
>>
>
> It can. It would be good to know how the generated grub.cfg from karmic
> looked like.
> os-prober should detect it and add so update-grub should add it to
> grub.cfg
>
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