Comments on: Adding Windows 7 to Linux Multiboot

By: Online Writing

Online Writing — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:36:40 +0000

Before installing windows, install windows, and after that, re-enable the linux hdds again, boot on linux, and add an option for windows on grub?thesiss pure essays writing help

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By: edi

edi — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:28:37 +0000

You have to do find /boot/grub/stage1 which might output something different than (hd0,0). In my case its (hd0,2)

then you set root(hd?,?) where ? are the values returned by the find above.
and setup (hd0)

google on reinstalling grub from a live cd and you will find the full steps

By: elgan

elgan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:20:08 +0000

I tried win 7 first, shrunk the hard drive, then installed Suse Linux 10.0. Rebooted options-Suse linux, windows, Suse linux safe mode. Selected Wins. Bootmgr missing – ctrl alt delete. I tried replacing MBR & Boot & BCD. Booted straight to Wins, no Linux. I booted from Linux DVD and repaired grub. Back again to no access to wins from options

By: Lokonopa

Lokonopa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:32:32 +0000

I’ve done this when it came to dual booting Vista and Win7 earlier this year. After I enabled the secondary drive, Windows 7 would not prompt me to boot into an earlier operating system. I had to use the BCDEDIT command while in Vista to add the Windows 7 installation.

I’m questioning how relevant that was to your question, but I did not try this using a GRUB multiboot with multiple disks with other OSes installed on them. This tutorial was written using only one hard disk.

Are you assuming that Windows is primary OS on the disk even after enabling the HDDs through the BIOS or is Win7 being installed on a secondary drive? I’m pretty sure you would still have to reconfigure GRUB.

By: Lokonopa

Lokonopa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:23:57 +0000

This might have some answers for you.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=647543

By: Lokonopa

Lokonopa — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:20:13 +0000

Corporate settings pretty much. I’ve only seen it on a few laptops and external storage.

BitLocker just doesn’t work with Linux at all. I prefer TrueCrypt.

By: Kane49

Kane49 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:31:13 +0000

I am getting

“The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible”

using fake raid, any ideas?

By: the dsc

the dsc — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:46:48 +0000

(here’s the post in the proper place, I’m sorry for the accidental reply)

What happens if you disable the linux’ hdds, either physically or only in the BIOS, before installing windows, install windows, and after that, re-enable the linux hdds again, boot on linux, and add an option for windows on grub?

I din’t try that yet, but that was what I would try if I didn’t thought of searching about the subject before possibly doing something that wouldn’t work.

Will windows still somehow change this, switching its own partition as the one to boot from?

By: bob23646

bob23646 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:59:49 +0000

Just use grub4dos to boot linux, and leave windows on the MBR. Create an option in the windows bootloader pointing to grub4dos, then use the grub4dos menu.lst to boot your linux distro.