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Grub lists Windows partitions but will not boot into Windows

Post by bard »

Fresh install of Linux Mint 13 today, with the intention of dual booting with Windows 7. Installation went fine, but I can only boot into Linux Mint, not Windows 7. Grub lists two Windows 7 menu options, but selecting either of them causes an "unknown file system" error and dumps me into a Grub recovery prompt. There, I have to manually reset the root and prefix options, as they reset hd0,msdos6 when they should be hd0,msdos5.

I have found a few similar troubleshooting guides so far, but so far no amount of updating/configuring Grub has been successful.

I ran Boot Repair twice, once to fix grub errors, once to rebuild the MBR, but it didn't fix anything. Here is the log:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1029675/

fdisk output:

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   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848  1486249145   743021149    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3      1486249982  1953523711   233636865    5  Extended
/dev/sda5      1486249984  1945141247   229445632   83  Linux
/dev/sda6      1945143296  1953523711     4190208   82  Linux swap / Solaris
grub.cfg:

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### 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='(hd0,msdos1)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 86184D18184D091F
	chainloader +1
}
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
	insmod part_msdos
	insmod ntfs
	set root='(hd0,msdos2)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 56D84F84D84F60FB
	chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
Thanks in advance!

Linux Mint 13 Maya, 64-bit
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oobetimer

Re: Grub lists Windows partitions but will not boot into Win

Post by oobetimer »

sda1: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1
and looks at sector 1558091112 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos7)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD

sda2: __________________________________________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda2
and looks at sector 1753075544 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
Some reason grub is installed to windows partition also, so you can repair windows boot using windows´s installation DVD or repair CD by running command Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

You can download 7´s recovery CD from here:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7 ... air-discs/
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