Ubuntu :: GRUB Not Initializing Windows 7?
Feb 10, 2010
I am having a very serious problem! GRUB won't allow me to start up windows 7. Each time I select it from the prompt, I am given a blank screen with only the cursor blinking and mocking me. Ubuntu works perfectly fine, but when I try to mount the windows 7 volume, it tells me that it is unable to mount the location because of an input/output error. I havnt done anything to make me believe I have caused this abd I am in complete shock that this has even happened. Both operating systems were running completely fine and then suddenly, windows won't boot up.
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Jan 20, 2010
I need some help. I'm not exactly new to linux but I'm not an expert either. I decided to try and play around with GRUB and see if I could get the GRUB gui and themes working. Apparently I did something and now, when I start up my computer, all I get is code...
I know little to nothing about grub. I will welcome any and all help or advice with this. Let me know if you need any other information and I will try to post it. Also, I have no idea whether I am running legacy or 2. It originally told me I was running legacy and I attempted to upgrade to 2 but I have no idea if it actually upgraded.
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Dec 20, 2010
I've been using Linux for over a decade, so no need to worry about the obvious. I'm positive that I have my partitions/install correct. What has me baffled is that Fedora 14, which uses GRUB 0.97 (GRUB legacy) - boots Windows flawlessly every single time on the same hardware, but Ubuntu's (or the upstream Debian's) GRUB legacy do not - even though they are based on the same upstream code from the GNU Savannah servers.
No matter what I've tried I cannot get the Debian or Ubuntu version of GRUB/GRUB-legacy to boot any recent Windows 64 beyond XP (Vista or 7). All that it does is resets the computer when Windows attempts to boot, without an error. GRUB is notoriously difficult to compile, so before I try to compile code from RedHat's archives - any thoughts,experiences, similar issues - whatever?
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Nov 1, 2010
I got ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx along with windows (dual boot) and using Grub. On my computer, I have my C:/ (programs) and D:/ (data). I've never used my D:/ before that day that I've lost my windows partition on my grub menu. I usually use my D:/ with windows. The first time I used my D:/ to store data with linux, I lost my windows option in my grub menu. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I do want to restore my windows option in my grub menu.
After "fdisk -l",
I checked in /boot/grub and there is no menu.lst to modify. how I can get back my windows option in my grub menu ?
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Apr 22, 2010
installed windows 7..then tried restoring grub using live cd....mounted partition somewhere else....then installed ubuntu again where it was installed previously and now grub is not detecting windows 7 but i am able use my windows files
used sudo update-grub2.
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Aug 24, 2010
I had to dual boot my computer again with windows unfortunately for school. This is something I've dealt with dozens of times in the past but when I try to recover grub 2 with the ubuntu live cd I get this:
sudo grub
sudo: grub: command not found
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May 24, 2010
I do not know what to do, i cannot load windows partition. it just loads grub again. this must have been something that happened when i upgraded to the 10.04 or w/e. can someoen help me out with what i can do to stop this or fix it. maybe i can reinstall but i want to know what will work first, i do not have a lot of time to fool with my computer like this again. i spent a week getting ubuntu on my computer the first time so i do not ever want to spend that much time again especially in finals week. !
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Apr 27, 2010
I have a used PC that came pre-installed with suse 11.2.Unfortunately, I do not have the install disk to use in case of whatever.I already know that when configuring a dual boot with Windows and Linux, it is recommended to install Windows first.I do not have that luxury now as 11.2 is installed and GRUB is the boot loader.Question is, if I boot the Windows 98 install disk on boot, how to not mess up GRUB and still add Windows 98 to GRUB menu?
One hard drive only here. 98gb free.It seems that W98 install will overwrite GRUB in this situation - causing problems. Maybe not, I don't really know for sure.I just need to install windows 98 on the same hard drive and if possible, have suse and w98 visible on boot in GRUB.
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Oct 7, 2010
I am actually facing a vague problem here. I was previously running Windows XP and Ubuntu . Ubuntu was installed Windows XP The problem is
1. First I tried to do some disk partitioning. That ended up with some error.
2. Ignoring that, I went to install Windows 7 over Windows XP but I was not able to proceed with Windows 7 , because the partitions were corrupted.
3. So I used Ubuntu LIVE CD (Grub was lost at this point )and used 'testdisk' and recovered the partitions.
4. Now installed the Windows 7 successfully.
5. Now again I moved to Ubuntu Live CD to write the GRUB. After which I tried restarting
6. Now Ubuntu is booting perfectly as before. But the problem is with Windows
7. The GRUB loader instead of showing Windows 7, it shows Windows XP !!! . and there is no other entry for windows. When I tried opening it, it says "error, cant read file" and further inout moves back to the grub loader list again.
"How do I change the entry to Windows 7 from Windows XP and boot Windows7 successfully " I tried it a couple of times, same thing happens . So how to change the entry?
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Jan 9, 2010
I have a Compaq Presario CQ60 with Nvidia GeForce 8200M graphics card. When I first installed Windows 7 followed by Karmic in dual boot I could boot into both OS. Now when I try to boot into Windows, it displays the Windows logo and then drops back to the grub menu. It may have started happening after Windows 7 installed updates. I tried reinstalling both Windows and Karmic again and it again worked initially but now Windows no longer boots. Does anyone have any suggestions about what may be causing this or how I can fix the problem without reinstalling?
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May 7, 2010
I had 9.10 installed and I did an upgrade to 10.04. However I cannot see anymore my Windows Vista partition with grub.. I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite p305.This is my boot script output:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in [code].......
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Jan 1, 2010
Whenever I select Windows 7 under GRUB, it just hangs at a flashing underscore windows 7 is installed under my first primary partition, what should the GRUB section look like for it? I can't check what mine looked like because this happened:I started up the windows 7 recover (another option under GRUB, on hd(0,3). 7 is on hd(0,1)) and it worked. I decided that i wanted to try something else before i restore my windows 7 partition to its factory state, so i exit the recovery thing. Next thing I know, my Ubuntu partition is completely gone, along with my grub.cfg files -.-
Partitions are like this in this order:
sda1: Windows 7 (can't boot into)
sda8: ubuntu (gets erased)
sda5: partition i'm going to use soon for another distro
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oh, and by default, there was like 20 MB of free space in front of my windows partition (idk why asus did that) and when i shrunk my first partition (the windows one) it moved it all to the left -.- do you think something when wrong while doing that?
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Mar 5, 2011
how to be able to add windows 7 to my grub menu or to even be able to boot to windows 7. I am currently unable to do it and my system just automatically goes straight to ubuntu. I've tried holding down SHIFT during startup and all that appears in my list is ubuntu entries and a memtest entry. My windows 7 files are still intact because I can see the drive through ubuntu and see all my files. I am trying to have Windows 7 on one hard disk that is 640GB and ubuntu on a second hard disk that is 160GB
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Aug 5, 2011
Ive been running windows 7/Ubuntu dualboot for some years now and never had any problems.Some months ago I got a new Patriot Inferno ssd. Ofc the first thing I did was to installl windows 7, it had no problems, ran fast and smooth. Then when I reinstalled grub I started to get error when trying to start windows, the logo never apeared and all I got was the message "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software"Status: 0x00.00F" "Info: The boot selection failed because a required device was inaccessible.". It does not matter what order I install windows and ubuntu in, or how many times Ive tried to reinstall grub. Windows 7 will not work while I have grub/windows installed. Right now Ive got them installed on separate drives, ubuntu on the ssd and windows on a partition on a 1tb hdd. Unfortunately I need to have windows for .net programing and gaming..
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Apr 17, 2011
kubuntu 10.10: system settings > workspace appearance > window decorations > get new decorations then the 'add-on installer' pops up and starts 'initializing' and then sais: 'Network error (1)' but I have a good working connection
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Nov 20, 2009
I have a struct (small instance so not using code brackets )
struct random {
int a;
int b;
}example;
What i am trying is
example={0,0};
and it gives an error how to initialize all the entries within a struct to zero? In the above example i have used integers but what if they are some other data structure for example another structure?
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Nov 5, 2010
Following is the way I saw a variable initialized in C
Code:
static const unsigned int rtl8139_rx_config =
RxCfgRcv64K |
(RX_FIFO_THRESH << RxCfgFIFOShift) |
(RX_DMA_BURST << RxCfgDMAShift);
on following link
[URL]
I have initialized variables in past but above initialization I could not understand what is it?
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Nov 4, 2010
I am using semaphore.h I declared a variable of type sem_t. I am able to use the variable without even calling sem_init or sem_open, and it is working properly.if the variable is automatically assigned some value? Also would I run into any trouble doing so?
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Feb 9, 2010
I have downloaded mplayer svn slackbuild script for slackware 12.2 and converted into tgz package and installed it on my slackware 12.2 system. I was using it with slackware 12.2 early and it worked fine. i formated my hard disk to give slackware 13 a try. and later when i installed slackware 12.2 and installed mplayer it is not opening i mean not initializing when i click mplayer icon from the multemedia menu or if i click a videofile and tell it to open with mplayer both ways its not working i tried reinstalling mplayer
but still not working.
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Jul 2, 2011
i am having some issues with dual booting my SL6.1 and Windows. The situation is that i recently acquired an old hard drive from a non-working computer of mine with Windows already installed (i know the windows is functional, as i tested it on my new PC with SL6.1 currently installed & everything runs fine)
The problem is that after editing the grub.config to include windows, windows will no longer boot after an attempt to install a legit version of McAffee anti-virus software which coincidently was only after the first attempt at running both OS's in a dual-boot fashion. Except past the windows start up screen before the dreaded blue-screen.
Which is weird because SL6.1 OS will still boot & works perfectly fine like always, so it doesn't really make sense.
My current setup is:
Disk 1: Solid-State:
Boot Partition
SL6 LVM1: Root Partition
Disk 2: Hard Drive:
SL6 LVM2: User, Temp & Swap Space Partitions (Different LVM to Root)
Disk 3: Hard Drive:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
My guess is its windows MBR. The reason i say this is because the Hard Drive contents of the Windows software still appears intact when accessing the drive from the Linux OS. I don't won't to go through the rigmarole of re-installing both OS's. So hopefully their is a relatively simple solution.
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Mar 12, 2009
I'm making script for automated compiling of one program which would output builds optimized for many architectures. For clearancy, I do each build in it's own catalogue and list of builds with their respective catalogues would be stored as array. I'm using this guide as reference. It describes making array as naming a variable with additional brackets denoting it's position in array.
In my code, it looks exactly like this:
Code:
mtune[1]="build/mtune/athlon"
mtune[2]="build/mtune/athlon-4"
mtune[3]="build/mtune/athlon-mp"
[code]....
But upon invoking $mtune or any $mtune[x] variable, output is blank, like the variable(s) were never initialized. What am I doing wrong?
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I am having a problem initializing the Pmw megawidgets for Python 2.6.I have Pmw_1_3 loaded in the site-packages directory.
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Sep 11, 2010
Is it possible to have the Windows bootloader point to Windows 7 and a Linux partition instead of using GRUB to point to Windows 7 and Linux?
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Mar 20, 2011
I can't understand wd the error in my way with my sources list (was trying to installError given when I try to update is: An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.lease report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:'E:Type 'src' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tiheum-equinox-maverick.list'Sources list is: ###### Ubuntu Main Reposdeb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted universe
###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security main restricted universe multiverse
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Jan 8, 2010
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Oct 13, 2010
I am having the following error while executing script and initialing my application
./ss.sh: line 1: kk.sh: command not found
./ss.sh: line 2: mon.exe: command not found
Can somebody assist ASAP.
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Jan 10, 2009
I just tried booting SUSE 11.0, but the system stops at the point it shows "initializing random number generator". I have left the system running at that point for almost 2 hrs, with no way to get past that. System isn't locked up. It has never done this before. How do I fix this?I have also tried failsafe booting, but it stops at the same spot also.
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Feb 18, 2009
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ps: using ssh to log into root from another machine makes no difference though, only using X or whatever its called from the physical machine.
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I use centos 5.3, the problem is my network is not starting when the machine is restarted everytime, i checked everything in the network scripts, and logs which is indicating dat everything is initialising at boot time, wat and wer will b the problem.
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Jun 7, 2011
The code below defines an array of structures in a class. I would like this to be a Static array and then initialize the array in a initialization method. I understand that initialization lists are the way to go but due to the size and complexity of the array I plan on using (the example below is a simple snippet that illustrates the problem) I would like to use the initialization method. However, I cant even get this thing to compile. The error says the reference to the ArrayOfStructs in the initialization routine is undefined.
l_long_Island
P.S. This is the error message
undefined reference to `ClassWithStaticArray::ArrayOfStruts'
class ClassWithStaticArray {
public:
struct IntegerStruct
{
[code]....
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