I am somewhat a newbie, and I got myself into trouble. I made a fresh install of LMDE alongside with my windows 7. LMDE installer asked me where to install the grub bootloader at the end of install and I picked "/dev/sda" but installer got stuck(froze) "installing grub" forever, so I reboot and start installing again. This time I picked "dev/sda1" as the bootloader installation point. Installation went smooth this time, and I reboot to see that I am grub-rescue. Third time is the charm, I said, I re-installed fresh this time "dev/sda" was my choice, to my surprise installation smooth, Mint worked fine.
But when I try to boot into windows 7 on the grub screen, the screen goes dark for a while then I return to grub screen. So I try again, the same thing. Windows 7 is unreachable. Can you help me out?
here is my fdisk -l, mnt is installed on sda5, windows 7 on sda1 (I guess you can tell):
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sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x228d228d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29084 233616352+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 29085 38914 78953473 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29085 38510 75708416 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38510 38914 3244032 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="2"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=1024x768
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_CA
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/linuxmint.png; then
true
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme ###
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/linuxmint.png ; then
set color_normal=white/black
set color_highlight=white/light-gray
else
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=white/light-gray
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-amd64 root=UUID=5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553 ro vga=773 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-amd64
}
menuentry 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-amd64 root=UUID=5b9e7e36-565a-4e0f-97ff-72ece63b3553 ro single vga=773
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-amd64
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root D6B0B14BB0B1333B
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
