and this
Originally Posted by
oldfred
Win7 combines its boot loader with XP, so only one windows boots and then you choose from that. You cannot then directly boot from grub to both windows.
One workaround I saw but have not seen anyone confirm was to turn off the boot flag on the first windows install. The second install will not see the first and installs standalone. You then cannot boot both windows from windows but can from grub.
Both windows have to be in primary partitions. Some installs of win7 after XP will install to a logical partition and will work only because the boot is really from the XP install in the primary partition.
Vista copies boot manager to one
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p15.html#BOOTMGR_is_missing
Moral of the story - look on other NTFS partitions for the missing bootmgr and Boot directory.
which was found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1271600
This thread recommends installing xp>win7>ubuntu
i am using win8 so i should try installing xp>win8>ubuntu
Been finding these waiting on boot repair running.
Had a look in advanced settings and seperated boot partition on xp drive sda2.
Reboot next.
I ran boot repair from terminal and on shutdown when finished this was in terminal
Code:
(glade2script:2231): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not load image 'os-uninstaller.png': Failed to open file '/usr/share/boot-sav/os-uninstaller.png': No such file or directory
(glade2script:2231): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not load image 'os-uninstaller.png': Failed to open file '/usr/share/boot-sav/os-uninstaller.png': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/glade2script", line 2339, in set_widget
exec( arg )
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file 'boot-repair.png': No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/glade2script", line 2339, in set_widget
exec( arg )
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 43, in function
return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs)
gi._glib.GError: Failed to open file 'boot-repair.png': No such file or directory
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