Greg2 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 No, don't give up yet. :) Have you tried to use the method that viking has posted to add the Vista section to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? What makes you think your vista install is corrupted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 (edited) What makes you think your vista install is corrupted? that' s what microsoft or lenovo must have told him installing linux messes up your windows install    their helpdesks must be so incopmpetent that they don' t even know how to add a bootloader (and I am not sure that using a recovery cd will even be helpful in replacing the vista bootload, I think it will just result in the vista image being replacd to the vista partition but leaving the grub bootsectors intact....) Edited August 6, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.nicholas Posted August 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 (edited) ok, thanks for being so helpful guys... its often hard to find a community that gives help without sarcasm and resentment. do you think there is a method to bypass the rescue and recovery screen i keep getting at bootup? edit: oh, and yes, i did add the vista section to menu.lst and it worked, but when i go to boot windows is when i get the rescue/recovery screen Edited August 9, 2008 by r.nicholas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 Ahh, lenovo uses a recovery partition. You need to see if it's still there, so boot into Mandriva then open a terminal (konsole in KDE) and (as root) please post the output of fdisk -l Then type in exit and hit enter to get you out of root, so you don't damage anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 I'm getting the feeling grub's pointing to the recovery partition like greg2 mentions, or that Windows is prompting recovery because of it crashing or something perhaps. Anyway, the fdisk command will give us a list of the partitions so we can see what's on the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted August 9, 2008 Report Share Posted August 9, 2008 (edited) Open a console such as konsole. Type in kdesu konqueror, it will ask for your root password, type it in and press enter. This will open konqueror in root mode. Use the UP arrow at the the top of Konqueror and go into Boot then Grub and click on menu.lst in there you can type in what was suggested to you by Reiver, namely............ title Windows Vista rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Keep a space between the new entry and the existing entrys. Go to the top of console and select Save. Because you are in root mode then it will be saved. Give it a try and see how you go. Cheers. John. Edited August 9, 2008 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 (edited) AussieJohn, (hd0,0) might be his recovery partition, actually. He should give the output of: fdisk -l Edited August 10, 2008 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.nicholas Posted August 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 [root@localhost robert]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7b449442 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 867 6958080 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 867 13621 102449216 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 13621 19457 46879560 5 Extended Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 13621 14640 8187448+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 14641 15150 4089928+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 15150 19457 34602088+ 83 Linuxh John, i did add that line to menu.lst a while ago. it allowed me to choose vista at startup but, again, it then goes to rescue and recovery screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 Going by this the grub config should reflect hd0,1 for the /dev/sda2 partition which is Windows Vista. Add to grub: title Windows Vista rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.nicholas Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title desktop586 2.6.24.4-1mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.4-1mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb.img title desktop586 2.6.24.5-2mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.5-2mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb.img title Windows Vista rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 that is my current menu.lst . the problem still persists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 off course, add the entry ian told you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 You need to modify the rootnoverify line, like I mentioned above. Yours is pointing to the wrong partition. hd0,0 is equivalent to /dev/sda1. If you want to select Vista which is in /dev/sda2, then you need to change hd0,0 to hd0,1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.nicholas Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 it worked! your help has been very appreciated, all. now i guess my next adventure with linux will be figuring out how to install and execute software. i've been looking for solutions online, but nothing has seemed to work correctly. would anyone like to point me in the right direction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 would anyone like to point me in the right direction? I would suggest that you read this: Software installation on Mandriva and easyurpmi and this: Installing_and_removing_software I'm glad that you have everything working now, but don't forget that google is your friend! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 (edited) You can do this also in the MandrivaControleCentre/Booting/Configure Bootsystem then klick next and choose added. It could be that Mandy find two windows, in my case sda1 and sda2 (or hda or whatever)) try to boot into windows using the first one in grub. If it want start delete it from the MCC. Edited August 15, 2008 by willie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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