https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470566 Summary: Grub corrupts boot sector of Windows 7 partition when installing bootloader. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: diacobel@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-2.5 Firefox/3.0.5 Both Windows 7 and 11.1 reside on the same Seagate 500G hard drive. The drive was new and I first created a 120G partition. I used dd and ntfsresize to move a XP installation to this drive. I then installed 11.1 onto the rest of the drive under an extended partition of SuSE's making, 40G for / with ext3, and the remainder for /home with xfs. After the 11.1 install I was unable to boot into XP with XP hanging just prior to the user login screen. This appeared to me to be a corrupted boot sector but XP's repair utility was unable to repair it. I felt my only choice was to reinstall XP but opted to install Win7 instead. After the install (reminded my of the SUSE install) I was able to boot into Win7 but grub was gone. Using the install disk I reinstalled grub but was then unable to boot into Win7. Originally grub was installed in / in the /boot directory. I moved grub to the mbr where it still is. I was still unable to boot into Win7. The Win7 partition was and still is the active partition. After many hours and posts to the openSUSE users list I decided to use the Win7 repair utility to restore the mbr and start over with grub. The Win7 repair utility identified the corrupt boot sector and repaired it. Upon reboot I discovered my original mbr was still intact and was able to use grub to boot successfully into both Win7 and 11.1. Looking back to the original XP partition it was probably a corrupted boot sector that caused my problems then as well. The XP repair utility was just unable to fix it. The sum of all of this is when installing, grub corrupts the boot sector of a windows partition when the windows partition is the first partition on the drive. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have a windows partition as the first partition on the drive 2.Install grub, either to the /boot directory or to the mbr 3. Actual Results: Grub corrupts the boot sector of the windows partition. Expected Results: I should have been able to use grub to boot into the windows partition. It was at the prompting of other users on the mailing list that I report this bug. As a side note, you know you are getting it right when Windows starts copying you. Have you seen Win7? The desktop looks VERY similar to a KDE 4.x desktop and the install process was very similar as well. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.