Are you sure that: a. the error you get isn't coming from winload.exe b. vista may not be capable from booting from an area beyond X MB from the beginning of a disk....
2014-08-24 20:47 GMT+03:00 Aharon Schkolnik <[email protected]>: > Hi. > > I used clonezilla to copy a NTFS (Vista) partition to a new disk. > There were no problems with the copy, and the new partition looks fine. > However, I can not get GRUB to boot from the new partition. > > grub2-mkconfig does not create a menu entry for it. > > I created an entry by hand using the following code: > > menuentry "Vista" { > set root='(hd0,2)' > chainloader +1 > } > > But, when I try to boot from that entry, I get the error: invalid > signature. > > I ran bootinfoscript, and I saw the following: > > > sda3: > __________________________________________________________________________ > > File system: ntfs > Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS > Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda3 > starts > at sector 230686720. But according to the info from > fdisk, sda3 starts at sector 211814400. > Operating System: Windows Vista > Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe > > > So I used testdisk to fix the boot sector, and now: > > sda3: > __________________________________________________________________________ > > File system: ntfs > Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS > Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. > Operating System: Windows Vista > Boot files: /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe > > > > Yet, grub2-mkconfig still doesn't create an entry for the Vista partition. > > > Can anyone help ? > > TIA. > > -- > The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik > and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | > is great, and the Master of the house is | [email protected] > impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 3344135 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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