Motomouse
July 23rd, 2009, 04:44 PM
The error message bootmgr missing after selecting Vista in your freshly installed grub menu indicates that probably the update-grub script was not able to create a valid boot entry for your Vista bootloader during the grub installation process.
You have two options to solve this:
Use the system repair option of your Vista Install DVD to repair the Vista boot process (loosing your grub boot menu)
Create manually a valid entry for your Vista bootloader in the menu.lst file of your grub installation
(On my system the grub installation detected a vista system on (hd 2,0) and tried to map (hd 2) to (hd 0) - without success. A manual entry according to the menu.lst comments did the job on my box:
failed automatical entry:
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdc1
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
savedefault
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
chainloader +1
working manual entry:
title Vista (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Regards
Motomouse
You have two options to solve this:
Use the system repair option of your Vista Install DVD to repair the Vista boot process (loosing your grub boot menu)
Create manually a valid entry for your Vista bootloader in the menu.lst file of your grub installation
(On my system the grub installation detected a vista system on (hd 2,0) and tried to map (hd 2) to (hd 0) - without success. A manual entry according to the menu.lst comments did the job on my box:
failed automatical entry:
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdc1
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
savedefault
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
chainloader +1
working manual entry:
title Vista (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Regards
Motomouse