On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 12:19:43 AM UTC-4, cooloutac wrote: > 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?
I'll double check the iso. But I think I may have not partitioned correctly. If I want to start over, and if I want to run Win7 and QubesOS, do I need to configure 3 partitions, the first one for NTFS and how big, like 100 MB? Then run the Windows 7 ISO and use one of the other partitions, then run the Qubes ISO? Thanks, 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 [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/ada73703-24c5-4362-a333-1ad945622daa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
