draucia
October 23rd, 2012, 09:55 PM
EDIT: Fixed it. What I did was I manually took the boot flag (using gparted) off of /dev/sda1 (recovery enviroment) and put it on /dev/sda2. Then I booted the windows repair CD and it prompted me with a message with something like "Windows will automatically add Windows 7 to the list" (or something like that, can't remember), I clicked "Repair and reboot", and it worked.
The first time I installed ubuntu it went well, no problems. But I did a bit of distro hopping (to see if it could solve on of my problems), and I decided to just stick with ubuntu 12.10. When the installer finishes installing, I have to manually install grub with the --root-directory=/mymountedubuntu/ /dev/sda, and it installs grub with both "Ubuntu" and "Windows 7" options.
The problem is, when I select Windows 7 it says "Boot Select failed because a requested device is inaccessible."
If I put in my Windows repair CD and do the:
bootrec.exe /firMbr
/FixBoot
/RebuildBcd
It fixes it, but I don't have grub anymore and I can only boot to windows. How can I have both working?
sudo fdisk -l
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
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc34542a0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 745768457 372780805 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 745768960 960612351 107421696 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 960612352 976771071 8079360 82 Linux swap / Solaris
The first time I installed ubuntu it went well, no problems. But I did a bit of distro hopping (to see if it could solve on of my problems), and I decided to just stick with ubuntu 12.10. When the installer finishes installing, I have to manually install grub with the --root-directory=/mymountedubuntu/ /dev/sda, and it installs grub with both "Ubuntu" and "Windows 7" options.
The problem is, when I select Windows 7 it says "Boot Select failed because a requested device is inaccessible."
If I put in my Windows repair CD and do the:
bootrec.exe /firMbr
/FixBoot
/RebuildBcd
It fixes it, but I don't have grub anymore and I can only boot to windows. How can I have both working?
sudo fdisk -l
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
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc34542a0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 745768457 372780805 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 745768960 960612351 107421696 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 960612352 976771071 8079360 82 Linux swap / Solaris