On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 11:53:17 PM UTC-4, Patrick Bouldin wrote: > 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 might of deleted a ntfs boot partition by accident. usually its the other way around lol. but you say that windows usb won't boot now, thats weird. Maybe you disabled it in bios and forgot? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/dc9b28ad-75e9-45a3-a144-36bc2f2d1d74%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
