On 07/19/2014 11:24 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I installed CentOS 7 on a Shuttle X27D box (dual-core Atom 330), and
> so far it seems to work fine, but it didn't set up a Grub2 entry for
> the existing Windows XP installation in the first partition (MBR).
> Running os-prober generates no output.
>
> fdisk shows that the NTFS partition is still present as /dev/sda1, and
> still has the bootable flag set.
>
> I added a menuentry for Windows to the end of /etc/grub.d/40_custom:
>
> menuentry "Windows" {
> set root=(hd0,1)
> chainloader +1
> }
>
> and ran:
>
> grub2-mkconfig >/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> and that lets me boot Windows, but I thought this was supposed to be
> taken care of automatically. Is there any known problem that prevents
> the installer or Grub2 from finding Windows XP?
>
> I don't normally set up dual-boot on production machines, but I use it
> a lot for testing.
>
It does not see Windows 7 either.
Note that Windows 7 to boot might need :
menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod ntfs
search --set=root --label WINDOWS_7 --hint hd0,msdos1
ntldr /bootmgr
}
and that msdos1 parametar in GRUB2 does not start with 0 but with 1?
(Check this)
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