[CentOS] problem configuring grub for a dual-boot

Vanhorn, Mike

michael.vanhorn at wright.edu
Mon Aug 5 13:24:39 UTC 2013


I have Windows 7 on /dev/sda and CentOS 6.4 on /dev/sdb. Here are the
layouts:

 (parted) select /dev/sda
 Using /dev/sda (parted) print
               
 Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00Z (scsi)
 Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
 Partition Table: msdos

 Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  374MB   373MB   primary  ntfs         boot
 2 374MB   1000GB  1000GB  primary  ntfs

 (parted) select /dev/sdb
 Using /dev/sdb
 (parted) print    
 Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
 Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
 Partition Table: gpt

 Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  211MB  210MB  fat16              boot
 2      211MB   735MB  524MB  ext4
 3      735MB   500GB  499GB                     lvm

/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf looks like this:

 # grub.conf generated by anaconda
 #
 # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
 # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
 #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
 #          root (hd0,1)
 #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_amrl01-lv_root
 #          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
 #boot=/dev/sdb1
 device (hd0) HD(1,800,64000,9b55c4a9-fdbe-4fcd-857b-8e7e129e29f9)
 default=0
 timeout=5
 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
 hiddenmenu
 title CentOS 6 (2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64)
 root (hd0,1)
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_amrl01-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8
rd_LVM_LV=vg_amrl01/lv_swap rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
crashkernel=128M  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_LVM_LV=vg_amrl01/lv_root
rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
 initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.img
 title Windows 7
 rootnoverify (hd1,0)
 chainloader +1
 



The system boots into CentOS just fine, but selecting the "Windows 7"
entry results in 

 invalid EFI file path
 Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist

 Press any key to continue...

By my understanding, since grub is installed on sdb, then sdb becomes hd0
and thus sda would become hd1, and so telling it to boot Windows from
hd1,0 makes sense. Also, since anaconda created the Windows entry during
the CentOS install, I would have expected this to work. However, as it
doesn't work, I'm clearly missing something. Can someome please point me
in the right direction as to why this isn't working?

Thanks!


---
Mike VanHorn
Senior Computer Systems Administrator
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Wright State University
265 Russ Engineering Center
937-775-5157
michael.vanhorn at wright.edu
http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/







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