On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:56:26 +0000 Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 17:17:19 »Q« wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:33:20 +0000 > > > > Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 20:22:12 »Q« wrote: > > > > On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:23:21 +0100 > > > > > > > > grub booted Gentoo just fine, but Windows booting failed, > > > > something about not finding partitions or files. Instead of > > > > troubleshooting that, I disabled os probing for grub > > > > (GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in /etc/default/grub) and added > > > > Windows via /etc/grub.d/40_custom , > > > > > > > like so: > > > If you moved the MSWindows OS or boot partitions then the UUIDs > > > would have changed. > > > > I moved the OS partition, and it's UUID did indeed change. > > > > > You'll need to edit the MSWindows boot menu (in the MSWindows boot > > > partition) and change their entrie(s) accordingly. > > > > If somebody can post a link to a recipe for doing that, I'd > > appreciate it. I don't understand the Windows boot stuff. > > Like most things MSWindows related you will need patience which in my > case runs short - at some subconscious level I consider spending > time on MSWindows a resentful waste of my life ... but YMMV. I've snipped it, but thanks very much for all the good info in your post. Before your post, I'd gotten bogged down in bcdedit.exe documentation, and that resentful attitude had overwhelmed me. You post makes a lot of it clearer to me than Microsoft's documentation did. I'll file it away for a rainy day when I tolerate wasting some of my life on it.
