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On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:07:49 +0200 |
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Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi> wrote: |
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> On Mar 15, 2014, at 19:17, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:33:20 +0000 |
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> > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 20:22:12 »Q« wrote: |
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> >>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:23:21 +0100 |
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> >>> grub booted Gentoo just fine, but Windows booting failed, |
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> >>> something about not finding partitions or files. Instead of |
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> >>> troubleshooting that, I disabled os probing for grub |
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> >>> (GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in /etc/default/grub) and added |
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> >>> Windows via /etc/grub.d/40_custom , like so: |
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> >> If you moved the MSWindows OS or boot partitions then the UUIDs |
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> >> would have changed. |
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> > I moved the OS partition, and it's UUID did indeed change. |
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> I have swaped the hard drive from my dual boot box and ran into the |
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> same problem trying get windows 7 to boot. As you also quite fast |
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> realice by reading different forums that changing windows boot |
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> parameters is a quite big hassle. I would not go that way! You have |
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> another simpler solution. |
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> Change the hard disk device ID to the same value as the old disk. It |
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> is written on MBR. Change the UUID of the windows partition to the |
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> same as on the old partition. UUID on NTFS partition is written at |
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> the beginning of the partition at 0x48-4F. |
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> So by changing 2x16 bytes of data your machine should boot again |
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> correctly. Also if you grub is not on the same physical disk as |
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> windows then you need trick windows by changing the order with grub |
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> before booting (see map command) |
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Thanks. That is a lot simpler, but I'm too scared I'd screw it up. |
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