[Bug 692047] New: installation causes existing windows 7 installation to stop booting "BOOTMGR is missing".
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692047#c0 Summary: installation causes existing windows 7 installation to stop booting "BOOTMGR is missing". Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: per@opensuse.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- I know this is a stupid summary (and probably a stupid problem), but for the moment that is what has happened. Yesterday I received two new Toshiba laptops with Windows 7 pre-installed. Booting the NET iso from USB, this morning I then installed openSUSE 11.4 using all the defaults, which went just fine except for bug#691927. The problem appeared when I tried boot Windows again and was told "BOOTMGR is missing". Given that the Windows partition was resized, I'm leaning towards some sort of problem in that, but this seems like it is such a basic thing that just HAS to work. (resizing was proposed by YaST). I can probably work my way out of this problem, but I feel pretty certain a newbie encountering this would run away screaming and never look back. Which would be a pity. -- 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.
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Jean-Daniel Dodin
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Per Jessen
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Stefan Quandt
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Per Jessen
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.
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