I installed Mepis 6.0, with grub in mbr. However, there is no line allowing me to boot into windows vista. What is the fix?
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I installed Mepis 6.0, with grub in mbr. However, there is no line allowing me to boot into windows vista. What is the fix?
You should edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst manually. There's a description in the file describing how to add the necessary lines if needed. Of course you must do it with root privileges.
vista is looking for a signature in the MBR. it comes back when you try to dual boot: corrupted help.exe. sorry but microcrap did it again!
boot up Mepis and post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file and output of fdisk -l command.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronepowell
Output of /boot/grub/menu.1st:
gfxmenu /boot/grub/message
title MEPIS at sda7, newest kernel
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet vga=791
boot
title MEPIS at sda7, previous kernel (if any)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet vga=791
boot
title MEPIS at sda7, kernel 2.6.15-27-desktop
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-desktop root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet vga=791
boot
Of fdisk -i:
title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4425 35543781 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 8887 9729 6771397+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 4426 8886 35832982+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4426 7081 21334288+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 7082 7319 1911703+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 7320 8886 12586896 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
add this code at the end of menu.lst file.
save file and reboot.Code:title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
how can i relate this to suse 10.1
Code is same for all Linux Distros but you have to pass correct partition number in rootnoverify. post the output of 'fdisk -l' command.Quote:
Originally Posted by phisics
That worked!!! Thank you.
glad to help you. :)