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Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:10 pm
by nelamvr6
Calon Merc wrote:I have had Windows Vista Ultimate installed, for a year or so now. I installed Mint yesterday, and am hooked. My only problem however, is that I cannot boot into Vista. Grub does not find it, and when I use GParted to view my partitions, it says the filetype is unknown. I know the file type is NTFS, unless installing Mint on a seperate hard drive messed up the first drive.
Installing Mint on a separate drive should not nave done anything to your Vista drive...
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:52 pm
by merlwiz79
Maybe it will still boot.
Make a backup of /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Now edit it and add this to the bottom.
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title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
Make sure to edit it for your system.
(hd0) = /dev/sda
(hd1) = /dev/sdb
(hd2) = /dev/sdc
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:51 am
by kansasnoob
Please post the output of:
That's a lower case L at the end, not a one. That'll show what's on your drives.
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:17 am
by Fred
Calon Merc,
I fear you have bigger problems than just not booting. I would suggest you download and burn one of the later versions of Puppy Linux and/or Knoppix. If one of those two live cds can't read your Windows NTFS partition, your Windows install is gone. If you can read that partition with one of those Live cds, I would try to save as much of your important data as you can to somewhere else while you still can. Definitely stop trying to boot it. You may very well be just causing more damage to the file system.
Fred
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:35 pm
by AK Dave
There are some good walkthroughs on how to install Vista and linux together for dualboot.
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:31 pm
by curt_grymala
AK Dave wrote:There are some good walkthroughs on how to install Vista and linux together for dualboot.
While that may be true, the absolute best advice I can give anyone that's thinking of dual-booting with Vista is to use a separate hard drive for Linux. Although the Linux community has made great strides in working with Vista partitions, it is still much safer just to leave your Vista drive exactly the way it was when you installed Vista.
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:09 am
by Fred
curt_grymala,
Careful with false security my friend. If you don't have the option to switch the boot drive easily on boot, that idea doesn't work too well. Also, when you install Linux on a separate drive you still need to pay close attention to where you put the grub kernel or you will still disable your Vista install. In short, there is no difference between putting Linux on another drive or just another partition on the same drive. It is only the perception of more safety. The risk comes when you need to shrink and or rearrange Windows partitions. These operations are never 100% safe but can usually be done without breaking anything if done correctly.
Fred
Re: Linux and Vista
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:51 pm
by linuxviolin
Calon Merc, maybe
this page will help you *to repair your Grub*
