Please move this if it needed but I saw this topic regarding "Quadruple boot". which I thought might be relevant.
I have been evaluating different distros this past few weeks to determine which I will be moving my desktops to. I started with Ubuntu (Wubi) install , which was on the same partition of my laptop's 750GB drive that also ran Windows 7 Ultimate 64. I was urged this weekend to try other distros and see how I would like it. The third OS I installed was OpenSuSe 11.4 on a separate newly created partition. This went smoothly as it installed Grub 1.5 loader that gave me the choice to go to my Windows bootloader with the option to boot to Windows 7 or Ubuntu 11.04:
Pushing my luck even further, I wanted to install Mint on a new partition. After shrinking my Windows partition I was able to gain another 20GB partition for my Linux Mint 10 install.
Now the problem. I'm suspecting while installing Mint that I should have not have chosen the Windows loader as one of the options during install. What is happening now when I chose Windows 7 or Ubuntu 11.04 from OpenSuSe Grub 1.5, it takes me to GNU Grub 1.98+20100804. This menu gives me options to boot to Mint, OpenSuse or Windows. When I choose Windows it just loops back to the same screen after a few seconds.
I went to press "e" for edit on the Windows to see the settings:
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instmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0.msdos1)'
search - - nofloppy - - fs-uuid - - set 880cfd860cfd6f94
chainloader +1
Choosing Linux Mint is now giving me an error and wont let me boot to Mint anymore. I get this:
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Gave up waiting for root device
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- check rootdelay
- Check root=
- Missing modules ( cat /proc/modules;ls/dev)
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/alff754d-a4343-8b7b-c0c87e755558 does not exist
Dropping Shell!
(init tramfs)
From OpenSuse:
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df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 15G 4.0G 11G 29% /
devtmpfs 1.8G 196K 1.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 2.7M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 15G 4.0G 11G 29% /
/dev/sda7 8.1G 1.3G 6.5G 16% /home
/dev/sda1 660G 392G 268G 60% /windows/C
I know this is not the best way have a quad-boot OS and quite honestly I blame myself for not planning it more carefully. My question now is, is it possible to recover booting to my Windows bootloader and get a working menu between Windows and Ubuntu? How can I fix my boot problem with Linux Mint?
Any help will be greatly appreciated and desperately needed.