Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 11:05 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Explanation (courtesy of Stefan Quandt, thank you):
Apparently one no longer boots a Windows partition directly, one is now supposed to boot from the boot manager partition, which appears to be called WinRE. YaST doesn't quite understand this (just like me), so instead of configuring the boot loader to boot from the WinRE partition, YaST configured it to boot from the Windows partition.
Clearly something we need to fix so people (who need Windows) don't stumble over this again.
I installed 11.4 on laptop with 64-bit windows 7 already installed. It installed properly, and GRUB has entries for the Windows boot, which works fine. In fact, GRUB has two windows boot entries - one for each windows partition. This is on a new Sony laptop. So maybe Toshiba are up to something with how they set up the disk.
The grub entries look like this:
title windows 1 rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1
title windows 2 rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1
That is how mine was setup too, but the entry for the boot manager was missing: title windows 7 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
As you had made backup Windows disks, you obviously had set up Windows. So I cannot offer any suggestions.
How did you shrink the Windows partition?
It was a vanilla installation, all default options except I unticked "Automatic configuration".
IIRC, I was suspicious of letting Linux do it. So I did this in Windows before the install. I had to disable a disk swap file so the shrinking would free up enough of the disk. This is a known Windows 7 partition resizing issue.
What issue is that - that the boot manager isn't configured in grub instead of the "actual" partitions? AFAICT, I had no problem with the resizing, YaST carved out about 80Gb from the first Windows partition. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org