markb63
December 30th, 2009, 03:26 PM
Hello,
I got a Samsung N130 netbook with win7(starter) starter on it. I decided to keep win7 and go dual boot with UNR. All worked well until I used the Recovery Solution to back up my win7 partition. So here's what I did to get to this point:
- Ran the initialization of the machine right out of the box, during which I split the disk in half (planning to use the second partition for UNR) and the recovery solution did its bit to grab a snapshot.
- Installed a few windows apps and got everything how I wanted it there.
- Built a USB stick with UNR and installed that, setting up a swap and / area using what was drive D: from above. All went well there too. Grub start up gave me:
UNR
Vista (? thought this was interesting - more on this later)
Windows 7
and I could boot Ubuntu or win7
- boot to Linux and installed a bunch of good stuff there :-)
- so now I think I might try the Samsung Recovery Solution to back up my win7 stuff. It says there is no recovery data and won't run. OK, so maybe i will have to just make an image another way - not so bad.
- a little later I decide to see what the Vista boot option from the Grub menu does! Well it boots and goes right to the Samsung Recovery Solution console - cool :-) So I go ahead and attach a USB disk and ask it to do a full image backup of C:. Seems to go fine - and needs to reboot.
I get "Grub loading" - no boot menu and the machine in an endless loop of restarting! What in the world did going to the Recovery Solution and just backing up do to screw up the booting?
I have booted with pmagic and all the partitions appear to be there (I have mounted them and browsed the files). I just don't know how to get grub to pick up the menu.
Here is a screen shot from GParted - hoping someone can help me get restarted without having to do the whole thing over.
Thanks in advance...
MarkB
I got a Samsung N130 netbook with win7(starter) starter on it. I decided to keep win7 and go dual boot with UNR. All worked well until I used the Recovery Solution to back up my win7 partition. So here's what I did to get to this point:
- Ran the initialization of the machine right out of the box, during which I split the disk in half (planning to use the second partition for UNR) and the recovery solution did its bit to grab a snapshot.
- Installed a few windows apps and got everything how I wanted it there.
- Built a USB stick with UNR and installed that, setting up a swap and / area using what was drive D: from above. All went well there too. Grub start up gave me:
UNR
Vista (? thought this was interesting - more on this later)
Windows 7
and I could boot Ubuntu or win7
- boot to Linux and installed a bunch of good stuff there :-)
- so now I think I might try the Samsung Recovery Solution to back up my win7 stuff. It says there is no recovery data and won't run. OK, so maybe i will have to just make an image another way - not so bad.
- a little later I decide to see what the Vista boot option from the Grub menu does! Well it boots and goes right to the Samsung Recovery Solution console - cool :-) So I go ahead and attach a USB disk and ask it to do a full image backup of C:. Seems to go fine - and needs to reboot.
I get "Grub loading" - no boot menu and the machine in an endless loop of restarting! What in the world did going to the Recovery Solution and just backing up do to screw up the booting?
I have booted with pmagic and all the partitions appear to be there (I have mounted them and browsed the files). I just don't know how to get grub to pick up the menu.
Here is a screen shot from GParted - hoping someone can help me get restarted without having to do the whole thing over.
Thanks in advance...
MarkB