ed-koala
April 13th, 2010, 09:15 PM
Ok, here's my situation. I've done a lot of searching through the forums and everything I've found has left me too confused to know what to do.
I installed Windows 7 to my first hard drive.
I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 via alt-install CD to second hard drive.
I boot 1st HD, 2nd HD in Bios ... I know I may need to change that.
Windows 7 can't be found by Grub2. Here is a copy of bootinfo (run from my current install of Ubuntu, not from LiveCD)
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks for
(UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba)/boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sdb2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0fbe8c40
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 976,768,064 976,768,002 7 HPFS/NTFS
Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dbaf8
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 937,167,839 937,167,777 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 937,167,840 976,768,064 39,600,225 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 937,167,903 976,768,064 39,600,162 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe8900690
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 1,953,520,064 1,953,520,002 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 0A2A092A134EA339 ntfs Windows
/dev/sda nvidia_raid_member
/dev/sdb1 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ext4
/dev/sdb5 89536d05-f423-4796-b1d4-1b63e41757b3 swap
/dev/sdb nvidia_raid_member
/dev/sdc1 610B70B04DE9F32D ntfs My Book
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdc1 /media/My Book fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,b lksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 /media/Windows fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,b lksize=4096)
=========================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro nodmraid quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro single nodmraid
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro nodmraid quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro single nodmraid
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
=============================== sdb1/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=89536d05-f423-4796-b1d4-1b63e41757b3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
3.4GB: boot/grub/core.img
13.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
3.3GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
3.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
2.3GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
3.4GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic
3.6GB: initrd.img
3.3GB: initrd.img.old
3.4GB: vmlinuz
2.3GB: vmlinuz.old
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============
sdd sde sdf sdg sdh
Can anyone give simple, step by step instructions on how to get my Grub list to appear, and have Windows 7 in it?
I installed Windows 7 to my first hard drive.
I then installed Ubuntu 9.10 via alt-install CD to second hard drive.
I boot 1st HD, 2nd HD in Bios ... I know I may need to change that.
Windows 7 can't be found by Grub2. Here is a copy of bootinfo (run from my current install of Ubuntu, not from LiveCD)
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks for
(UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba)/boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc
sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sdb2: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0fbe8c40
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 976,768,064 976,768,002 7 HPFS/NTFS
Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dbaf8
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 937,167,839 937,167,777 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 937,167,840 976,768,064 39,600,225 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 937,167,903 976,768,064 39,600,162 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe8900690
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 1,953,520,064 1,953,520,002 7 HPFS/NTFS
blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 0A2A092A134EA339 ntfs Windows
/dev/sda nvidia_raid_member
/dev/sdb1 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ext4
/dev/sdb5 89536d05-f423-4796-b1d4-1b63e41757b3 swap
/dev/sdb nvidia_raid_member
/dev/sdc1 610B70B04DE9F32D ntfs My Book
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdc1 /media/My Book fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,b lksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 /media/Windows fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,b lksize=4096)
=========================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s /boot/grub/grubenv ]; then
have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/white
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro nodmraid quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro single nodmraid
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro nodmraid quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
insmod ext2
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba ro single nodmraid
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
=============================== sdb1/etc/fstab: ===============================
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=903f98b5-112a-403e-a8f9-75b7893c2aba / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=89536d05-f423-4796-b1d4-1b63e41757b3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
3.4GB: boot/grub/core.img
13.0GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
3.3GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
3.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
2.3GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
3.4GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic
3.6GB: initrd.img
3.3GB: initrd.img.old
3.4GB: vmlinuz
2.3GB: vmlinuz.old
=======Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive==============
sdd sde sdf sdg sdh
Can anyone give simple, step by step instructions on how to get my Grub list to appear, and have Windows 7 in it?