I was able to boot up CrunchBang today with the System Rescue CD, but not Windows. CrunchBang seems to be working ok now.Is it alright to run the 32 bit version on a 64 bit Intel laptop?
I tried to reinstall grub in the MBR: root@sysresccd /root % grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/custom /dev/sda and got this message root@sysresccd /root % /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive I was hoping to do a clean install, from what I've read Windows will only let me shrink the partition to half and I don't want to leave it with 300 G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[email protected]> To: "CLUG General" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:38:40 PM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Computer not booting Hi Joe, Sorry you're having problems with your dual boot setup. I've never tried crunchbang in a dual boot set up. I wonder how well it plays with windows, especially with an EFI drive. I can tell you Ubuntu works well with Windows 7. In theory, crunchbang should work fine. If I were in your shoes I'd do the following: 1) Clean install windows 7. Allow windows to partition the drive the way it wants. This usually means 3 partitions, including a 300MB boot partition and a 20 GB or so recovery partition in addition to the main. 2)Shrink main windows partition (not the boot or recovery) from within windows. 3)make windows recovery CD (just in case) 3)Install Crunchbang on free space. Allow Crunchbang to auto partition the drive (making sure not to touch the windows stuff). Don't do manual partitioning here. You shouldn't really need to do anything else. Good luck. Chris On 13-09-29 03:47 PM, Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > I'm having trouble with my computer not booting and was wondering if someone > would be able to help. I have a laptop that was working fine yesterday > morning: Acer Aspire5742z 64 bit. I partitioned the hard drive and installed > Windows 7 in the first partition and Linux in 3 other partitions: / /home and > swap. After I installed Windows everything seemed ok and I did some updates > and shut things down. I latter installed CrunchBang Waldorf. The Linux > install didn't go well: I couldn't use any of the menu to access anything in > CrunchBang, all I got was "failed to execute child process (input/output > error). I rebooted and the computer died. I can't boot into either OS, I > can't even boot the System Recovery CD that I have. > > I'm hoping someone will have some incite into this. I don't know how much is > hardware or software related. I installed Grub in the MBR. I don't know if > that would cause the problem. > > > Thanks for any help. > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
