Not sure if I have a problem here but I believe I have
When I hibernate Windows 7 and reboot I am not offered the option of the boot menu so I can boot into Linux Mint 13.
Is this something I have to accept or am I missing something?
Thanks
Windows 7 Hibernate query
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Windows 7 Hibernate query
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Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
I don't use hibernate or suspend or anything like that myself, and never have, but my guess is that the behaviour you state is by design not an error. The expectation is that when you hibernate you want the same distro to start next time. If you don't, then shutdown, instead of hibernating and you will get the boot menu next time.
Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
Do you know if Windows boots in UEFI mode on your system?
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Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
AlbertP wrote:Do you know if Windows boots in UEFI mode on your system?
No idea, I think it is still using the BIOS as my default boot system though if I install Win8 I am sure it would be UEFI capable.
All I know is when I boot up after a hibernate my PC simply resumes the last session and completely skips any boot screen or option to even go into the bios.
To be honest I am new to UEFI and don't really know what I am talking about.
Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
Not going into BIOS is quite normal. As a work-around, you can turn on the computer, and then immediately hold the power button to turn it off. Windows will still resume normally after doing this, and you get your normal boot back.
Please run sudo parted -l. It should show if your harddisk has an "msdos" or "gpt" (UEFI) partition table.
Please run sudo parted -l. It should show if your harddisk has an "msdos" or "gpt" (UEFI) partition table.
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Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
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$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
Model: ATA SAMSUNG HM321HI (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 52.4GB 52.4GB primary ntfs boot
2 52.4GB 52.9GB 500MB primary ext4
3 52.9GB 177GB 124GB extended
5 52.9GB 72.9GB 20.0GB logical ext4
6 72.9GB 173GB 100GB logical ext4
7 173GB 177GB 3999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
4 177GB 282GB 105GB primary ntfs
I Think what might be happening is the Windows bootloader which is in the MBR is clocking there is a hibernated Windows 7 session present and is booting that up straight away and not even giving GRUB which is in the /boot partition a chance to fire up i.e. completely bypassing it!! I didn't figure this out by myself but I did a bit of googling Problem is I am not sure how you put GRUB before the Windows 7 bootloader. I presume I would need to somehow move GRUB to the MBR?!
Did a wee test and hibernated Mint and rebooted and got the Win7 bootloader followed by GRUB and got back into my Mint session no problem.
Can anyone tell me what to do or point to a tutorial that novice like me can use?
Thanks
Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
Grub is installed into the MBR by default, unless you choose a partition instead of a disk as bootloader location in the installer. You probably did that, and used BCD to get Grub loaded anyway. Right?
You can install Grub again using this tutorial: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245
Please choose to install it on /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda2: then its bootsector will be put into MBR.
It seems however that you're having a /boot partition. That will make it slightly more complicated. You'll have to mount /boot instead of /, and use --boot-directory instead of --root-directory when doing grub-install.
You can install Grub again using this tutorial: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245
Please choose to install it on /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda2: then its bootsector will be put into MBR.
It seems however that you're having a /boot partition. That will make it slightly more complicated. You'll have to mount /boot instead of /, and use --boot-directory instead of --root-directory when doing grub-install.
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Re: Windows 7 Hibernate query
AlbertP wrote:Grub is installed into the MBR by default, unless you choose a partition instead of a disk as bootloader location in the installer. You probably did that, and used BCD to get Grub loaded anyway. Right?
You can install Grub again using this tutorial: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245
Please choose to install it on /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda2: then its bootsector will be put into MBR.
It seems however that you're having a /boot partition. That will make it slightly more complicated. You'll have to mount /boot instead of /, and use --boot-directory instead of --root-directory when doing grub-install.
I have a feeling I am going to have to go away and do some research on this to understand what the hell I am doing. I am sure you are right and it makes sense what you say but I need to understand what I'm doing here. I am sure I'll be back to you, but hopefully having sorted it out