Can't reboot Vista after dual-boot Jaunty install on Amilo Pi1536
Chris
racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Jul 12 13:46:55 UTC 2009
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:58 +0200
Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday I installed Jaunty on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi1536 laptop.
> It basically worked, but when rebooting Vista,
> the Fujistu Siemens recovery stuff comes in...
>
> See following for the gory details...
>
> Here is how the HD looked like initially (from what I recalled; didn't
> overconfidently/stupidly make a backup of part table :( )
> ______________ ____________ ________________
> |NTFS - WinRE| |NTFS-SYSTEM|<empty2GB>| NTFS - DATA |
> -------------- ------------ --------------
> | | |
> -> recov | -> VISTA
> v
> gap
>
> So (I'm trying to be as precise as possible) , I
> - booted on a stock i386 Jaunty Live CD
> - downsized SYSTEM from 79 down to 69 GB
> - (using gparted) created an extended partition in the "conquered
> space", with a 9 GB / install (no /home part) and a 1 GB swap
> (I left the <empty2GB> alone, being suspicious)
> _______________
> so | SYSTEM |<empty2GB>
> ----------------
> became
> ________________
> | SYST | / |swap|<empty2GB>
> -----------------
> | \ /
> | \-----/
> v v
> primary extended
>
> - installed jaunty i386
> - rebooted onto Vista (was looking for problems, then rebooted...
> seemed OK to me... after all I after a system partition shrinkage...
> didn't look like a scandisk though... )
> - booted on Jaunty
> - pulled all the updates + a couple of other soft (including a kernel)
> - rebooted onto Jaunty (with new kernel)
> - edited GRUB's menu.lst
> -> was "jaunty new knl - jaunty recov new knl - jaunty orig knl -
> jaunty recov orig knl - jaunty memtest - Other OSes - Vista"
> -> changed it to 'jaunty new knl - jaunty recov new knl - jaunty
> memtest - other OSes - Vista" + default OS 0 -> 3
> - rebooted: GRUB said "invalid default choice" (something similar)
> because "other OSes" was selected by default" and dropped me to the
> (updated) boot menu
> - booted into jaunty + switched GRUB's default from 3 -> 4
> - rebooted and was brought to Jaunty
> So far so good
>
> NOW the "FUN" part:
>
> I reboot, select Vista in GRUB then
> - Vista seems to boot OK BUT in the booting procedure, Fujitsu Siemens
> recovery program tackles in after a while and wants to reinstall to
> factory settings; I select "cancel" and the computer shutdowns
>
> - Boot into Jaunty again
> * gparted sees nothing (whole disk unallocated)
> * cfdisk looks blind also
> * revert to the good old fdisk in despair (note sda1 initially showed
> ID 27 - Unknown; could mount is as NTFS so changed it to 7 using
> fdisk; didn't help booting Vista)
> =>
> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xe1c860dd
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 1530 12288000 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 * 1531 10536 72340695 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 10537 11811 10241437+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda4 11813 12055 1951896 c W95 FAT32
> (LBA) /dev/sda5 12067 14594 20298752 7
> HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 10537 11681 9197149+ 83
> Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Looks like the <empty2GB> from above was in fact a hidden FAT32
> partition (FSC_OTS below) (or was at least non seen initially by
> gparted).
> So I've *5* primary partitions... obviously wrong
>
> fdisk in sector view shows
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xe1c860dd
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 2048 24578047 12288000 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 * 24579450 169260839 72340695 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 169260840 189743714 10241437+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda4 189759780 193663571 1951896 c W95 FAT32
> (LBA) /dev/sda5 193841152 234438655 20298752 7
> HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 169260966 187655264 9197149+ 83
> Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> The swap partition isn't mounted or even seen (checked with 'swapon
> -s')
>
> I could mount all of the partitions (but sda3 and swap)
> -> "LANG=C df -h"
> /dev/sda6 8.7G 3.3G 5.0G 40% /
> < tmpfs, varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, lrm >
> /dev/sda2 69G 44G 26G 63% /media/SYSTEM
> /dev/sda4 1.9G 94M 1.8G 5% /media/FSC_OTS
> /dev/sda5 20G 87M 20G 1% /media/DATA
> /dev/sda1 12G 5.4G 6.5G 46% /media/WinRE
>
> or, in sectors of 512 bytes, "LANG=C df -B 512"
>
> Filesystem 512B-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 18105040 6732632 10452696 40% /
> < tmpfs, varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, lrm >
> /dev/sda2 144681376 91019808 53661568 63% /media/SYSTEM
> /dev/sda4 3896144 192016 3704128 5% /media/FSC_OTS
> /dev/sda5 40597496 176496 40421000 1% /media/DATA
> /dev/sda1 24575992 11131648 13444344 46% /media/WinRE
>
> So now I'm stuck...
>
> Does anyone know what else I could do now to "repair" Vista (provided
> Vista isn't completely broken to begin with ;) )
>
> uname -a
> => Linux LAPTOP 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51
> UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Frédéric
>
> PS: I've some backups of Windows data, but would like to avoid
> reinstalling everything
> PS2: this is my brother's laptop and it would be a bad first linux xp
> if it made his laptop crash (he's a complete newb)
> PS3: you'd better read this mail in fixed font...
>
There are many Google pages on how to fix this.
The simple answer - (in summary) boot the Vista CD, do a repair of the
mbr. You'll be using the Vista boot menu (iirc).
This happened to me and Google is such a wunnerful tool - it actually
got me out of a bad situation in under 5 min.
A little research BEFORE installing save hysteria AFTER (imho, ymmv)
--
Best regards,
Chris
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