I have just installed Ubuntu. It has been a long painful road as I've made every mistake possible. Finally things are looking up. When I turn on the computer I get to a boot menu. Ubuntu works, but windows does not.
If I try to select windows it goes to a black screen, then back to the boot menu.
I believe the issue is that the boot menu is trying to open up windows from dev/sda1 but in reality windows is in dev/sda2. This results in a black screen happening for about five seconds and then it takes me back to the boot menu! Please help! I'd love to keep Ubuntu, but I need to access Windows.
Here is the complete boot info log I got:
============================ Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Lilo is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda1
and looks at sector 781374472 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos5)/boot/grub on this drive. No errors found
in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sda6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
============================= Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 206,848 695,974,276 695,767,429 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda3 695,975,934 976,771,071 280,795,138 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 695,975,936 968,652,799 272,676,864 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 968,654,848 976,771,071 8,116,224 82 Linux swap / Solaris
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 907251C67251B1A8 ntfs System Reserved
/dev/sda2 60EC5404EC53D2C0 ntfs
/dev/sda5 cb187c79-003c-4187-a465-a65086a232e0 ext4
/dev/sda6 34f6876e-7e0e-4c27-aef7-54250c4fdea7 swap
================================ Mount points: ================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
