On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7:28:55 PM UTC-4, Unman wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:39:28PM -0700, Patrick Bouldin wrote: > > I was attempting to go by the instructions here: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/ > > > > Confused on which instructions to execute. First, I repartitioned, then > > installed Windows 7 - it booted fine. Then I installed Qubes on the other > > position - and Qubes now boots fine to that partition. With that in mind, > > do I follow the instructions under Windows or Linux on the guidelines? > > > > And, if I'm to use the Windows instructions, then when doing a blkid in > > order to get the volume for windows and substituting that name into the X > > in the "ntldr (hd1,X)/bootmgr" line of the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file - I > > am unclear as to what to use there. If I blkid I see this: > > > > /dev/sdal: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="lotsOfcharacters", and then type, > > and then PARTUUID="othercharacters". So, which do I want for the X > > substitution. Either way upon boot I get "error: hd1 cannot get C/H/S > > values" > > > > Thank you, > > Patrick > > > > That error suggests that the drive is not identified correctly. > It would help if the page made it clear that these are examples, not to > be followed blindly. > You need to understand how grub identifies disks and partitions. > > grub2 will reference sda (the first disk) as hd0. > But partitions are numbered from 1. > So sda1, which you identify as the System reserved partition , should be > identified as (hd0,1) > > The relevant line should therefore be: > ntldr (hd0,1)/bootmgr > > Try that and see what happens. > > unman
Thanks unman, that actually worked. However, apparently the QubesOS install apparently corrupted the Windows OS partition that was installed first. I guess that's a different problem! Do you think I need to start over? If I try to boot to the USB windows7 ISO it doesn't recognize it, but I know the ISO is good. Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/08cca803-86ce-455c-92fa-a4df51976f69%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
