Just Installed Linux(Pardus 2011) and have 2 big issues!

[Ultimatenaw]

First one of all, It installed grub and when I restarted my computer it would not allow me to pick Windows 7 anymore. I am not sure why, its still there, I checked in this OS, I have 2 hard drives, one has windows and now the second has Linux.

The second issue I have is I am not getting sound on this, I have a Xonar DG card, is there a driver I need?

Any help is great, Kinda needed to get on windows tonight(Playing a game with a friend :-/)

[atreyu]

I'm not a Pardus user, but as you're in a bind, i'll try to help!

Once you've booted into Linux, show us the output of the following commands, in order to help you.

Show contents of bootloader config file:

cat /etc/grub.conf

Show hard drives connected:

ls -d /sys/block/[sh]d*

For each hard drive found, show partition tables of connected drives:

fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
etc.

Show the contents of file system auto-mounter:

cat /etc/fstab

That'll get us started...

[Ultimatenaw]

It says this:

HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ cat /etc/grub.conf
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ ls -d /sys/block/[sh]d*
/sys/block/sda /sys/block/sdb
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $


HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x41339e31

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 3907026943 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4 * 0 0 0 0 Empty
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ ^C
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8de6b88e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 1250263039 624618496 8e Linux LVM
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $ cat /etc/fstab

#
# Created by YALI on Wed Jun 8 23:13:46 2011
#
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=53a6719d-2ad1-44ee-8e99-3829c7c64292 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs debugfs,defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
HappyCat@HappyCat ~ $

Not sure what it means, I know it sees both though...

[atreyu]

I'm not hip on Pardus, but that grub.conf does not look right to me. I would expect it to look something like the third code box listed at this thread:
Windows + Pardus + El1ve => Elive won't boot - Ubuntu Forums

Does the contents of this file show the same (is it a symlink)?

cat /boot/grub/grub.lst

btw, yes, you are right, both hard disks are seen. Linux is installed on the first one (sda - two physical partitions) and Windows on the second (sdb - one physical partition).

[Ultimatenaw]

I am not sure how to tell...

I tried to reinstall the linux again and it still wont Windows in the Grub loader, not sure what to do, anyway I can get into my windows drive besides this loader?

When I type that it says no such directory exists.

[atreyu]

I'm not sure about Windows 7, but w/previous versions, you could boot with the Windows CD/DVD and go into some sort of rescue mode where you could fix the Windows bootloader. It was something like fixmbr. Try Googling it.

You should be able to put the right info into your grub.conf and boot that way, too, though. Try googling Pardus and Windows or dual-boot, or even Linux and Windows 7 dual-boot and you should turn up something.

[Ultimatenaw]

Alright thanks, I will try that.

[Ultimatenaw]

I tried the MBR codes, it went through fine but deleted the boot file for windows also, so I just reinstalled Pardus and its still only showing that OS....

Not sure what else I can do here... :-/

[yancek]

I'm not familiar with Pardus but you should have either a /boot/grub/menu.lst file, a /boot/grub/grub.conf file or if it uses Grub2, a /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. You will need to boot it and open a file manager to see which of those files you have and post it here.

When I type that it says no such directory exists.

Not sure what you are referring to with "that"? Do you mean the cat /boot/grub/grub.lst? That's a typo, try the filenames above. You probably need to map the entry for windows to get it to work. If you post your boot file, whichever one of the three mentioned above you have, someone will be able to tell you the next step.

[atreyu]

d'oh. good catch, yancek. sorry for the typo...