Success! The boot sector was reported as corrupted by the Windows 7 repair utilities. Windows 7 repaired the boot sector and rebooted. I expected to go right back into windows after the reboot but instead got a pleasant surprise and was back at the grub boot menu. I selected Windows, grub took me to the Windows partition, and Windows booted without problems. I am now back in SUSE via grub and would like to thank everyone for all of their assistance. With the assistance of this mailing list I have been able to resolve every issue that came up in 11.1 and now have a system that is the best available anywhere. Since the Windows 7 boot sector was corrupted during the install of grub should I report this as a bug? After installing Win7 I was able to boot successfully into Win7 until I installed grub. Thanks again, Dave ----- Original Message ----
From: Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:27:10 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] dual boot issues
On Sunday 25 January 2009 07:39:42 am Dave wrote:
I posted here a couple of weeks ago about dual booting 11.1 and Windows 7. I am still unable to boot into the Win7 partition from grub. I have googled extensively with no success. The faq on the Grub site is way outdated and still discusses issues with RH7 and using drives larger than 8G. Has anyone had success dual booting openSUSE 11.1 and Windows 7. If not, would anyone be interested in helping me figure this one out? I have set up SuSE machines to dual boot into Windows since SuSE 6.1 and Windows 95 but am stumped on this one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dave
You got couple of answers: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-01/msg03415.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-01/msg03484.html
Reading previous posts: ***
Voyager:/home/dave # mount -t ntfs /dev/sdd1 /windows/C Unexpected clusters per mft record (-1). Failed to mount 'dev/sdd1': Invalid arguement
You can copy console output, it saves typing and typos /dev/sdd1 and arguement. Just highlight text as any other, go to email client, position cursor where you want to copy text and press middle button (scroll wheel, or both left and right button at the same time), and your console text will appear in email.
According to the few posts in the Internet, your Windows partition is damaged. It happened after boot loader was installed in MBR, so try to fix it using rescue console on Windows 7 disk. I guess that command is 'fixmbr' or 'fixboot', and then reinstall GRUB.
If it happens the same problem again please file bug report.
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