<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Are you sure that:<br></div>a. the error you get isn't coming from winload.exe<br></div>b. vista may not be capable from booting from an area beyond X MB from the beginning of a disk....<br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-24 20:47 GMT+03:00 Aharon Schkolnik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschkolnik@gmail.com" target="_blank">aschkolnik@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi.<br>
<br>
I used clonezilla to copy a NTFS (Vista) partition to a new disk.<br>
There were no problems with the copy, and the new partition looks
fine.<br>
However, I can not get GRUB to boot from the new partition.<br>
<br>
grub2-mkconfig does not create a menu entry for it.<br>
<br>
I created an entry by hand using the following code:<br>
<br>
menuentry "Vista" {<br>
set root='(hd0,2)'<br>
chainloader +1<br>
}<br>
<br>
But, when I try to boot from that entry, I get the error: invalid
signature.<br>
<br>
I ran bootinfoscript, and I saw the following:<br>
<br>
<br>
sda3:
__________________________________________________________________________<br>
<br>
File system: ntfs<br>
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS<br>
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector,
sda3 starts <br>
at sector 230686720. But according to the
info from <br>
fdisk, sda3 starts at sector 211814400.<br>
Operating System: Windows Vista<br>
Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe<br>
<br>
<br>
So I used testdisk to fix the boot sector, and now:<br>
<br>
sda3:
__________________________________________________________________________<br>
<br>
File system: ntfs<br>
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS<br>
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.<br>
Operating System: Windows Vista<br>
Boot files: /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Yet, grub2-mkconfig still doesn't create an entry for the Vista
partition.<br>
<br>
<br>
Can anyone help ?<br>
<br>
TIA.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
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