https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c8 Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|installation causes |installation does not know |corruption/removal of |how to handle the windows |windows 7 boot manager |boot manager partition --- Comment #8 from Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> 2011-05-07 08:59:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6)
I had ecactly the same experience when installing 11.4 on a Toshiba R700. Linux bootet just fine, but attempting to boot windows gave me "BOOTMGR is missing".
The reason for this is the notebooks nonstandard partition layout, where there is a small sda1 windows boot partition which is distinct from the windows OS partition sda2 and that yast2 grub configurator does not correctly detect this and creates a windows boot entry pointing directly to sda2.
So the WinRE partition is a boot manager partition where Windows really should be booted from? Interesting, thanks. I guess this is new with the latest Windows variations?
While in fact this "makes any newbie run away screaming" the fix was just adjusting the partition of the "rootnoverify" entry of the grub windows boot entry in /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst. Trivial for anyone skilled with grub.
Certainly trivial, but it doesn't seem that many people actually know this. YaST needs to be fixed, certainly. (In reply to comment #7)
exactly what is described in the document I quoted, and solved easily with updategrub (or manually)
jdd, I don't want to appear ungrateful, but none of the documents you referred to even mention that Windows now has a boot manager partition, nor the winRE partition. -- 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.