Bug 6404

Summary:	mga2 boot menu fails to dual boot Windows 7
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lovaren, zen25000
Version:	2	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	lshw Installation-log from installing Mageia 2 Result of the bootinfoscript

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:07:06 CEST

Description of problem: I've reinstalled both Windows 7 64-bit along with Mageia 2 64-bit version like 10 times & each time I try to boot Windows 7-entry from GRUB-menu it fails & says that BOOMGR is missing. There's a Boot-repair function on the Windows 7 64-bit DVD that should repair the bootloader & this doesn't do the trick all the times I've tried. I'll upload all the needed info that I know of as an attachment.

How reproducible: All the time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Windows 7 64-bit.
2. Fully update Windows.
3. Install Mageia 2 using the DVD-iso.
4. Now, try to boot Winddows 7 from GRUB-menu.
5. Voila! It fails.

Comment 1 Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:13:01 CEST

Created attachment 2446 [details]
lshw

Here's info about my hardware in this desktop-PC.

Comment 2 Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:15:02 CEST

Installed kernel is: 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2

Comment 3 Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:24:21 CEST

Created attachment 2447 [details]
Installation-log from installing Mageia 2

Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:24:53 CEST

CC: (none) => kristoffer.grundstrom1983
Hardware: i586 => x86_64

Comment 4 Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-10 22:28:28 CEST

Created attachment 2448 [details]
Result of the bootinfoscript

Comment 5 Barry Jackson 2012-06-10 22:53:51 CEST

According to BootInfoScript output, sda2 is marked bootable and is obviously drive C, but bootmgr is on sda1.
So please try this:

title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

I have seen the order of the makeactive/chainloader commands make a difference in the past.

CC: (none) => zen25000
Hardware: x86_64 => i586

Barry Jackson 2012-06-10 23:02:43 CEST

Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Summary: Fully updated Windows 7 64-bit versions bootloader MBR becomes broken or missing after Mageia 2 is installed next to it => mga2 boot menu fails to dual boot Windows 7

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-25 04:37:46 CEST

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Kristoffer Grundström 2012-06-26 16:47:48 CEST

I don't see this issue anymore. Strange behaviour, really.

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-26 22:52:12 CEST

closing then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME