Boot windows CD and tell it you need to fix the install on that partition? It will probably wipe grub but that shouldn't be too hard to re-install and if it gets your problem solved then it was worth it.
No other suggestions available from me... Andy On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM, JMJ <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/2015 09:47 PM, JMJ wrote: > > Thanks for the Clonezilla tip, that got me going in the right direction! >> >> I used Clonezilla to copy the partitions I wanted, then updated >> /etc/fstab to hide the partitions that were no longer there, and ran >> grub2-mkconfig. That got me booted... but... >> >> The boot process was stopping at the same point it stops when I upgrade >> the kernel and forget to install the matching kmod for my Nvidia card. I >> couldn't figure out why that was happening since my regular desktop was >> still working correctly. Then I remembered... oh, duh... there's no >> Nvidia card in the box yet. *facepalm* LOL So, I put in an OLD Nvidia >> card and was able to get to the desktop. >> >> Now I need to get the HDD installed and the partitions renamed since the >> SSD now uses the UUID's that the HDD had to begin with. >> > > I still can't get the Windows 7 (NTFS) partition on the SSD to boot. I > can mount it from Linux, and grub2-mkconfig creates an entry for it, but > GRUB can't boot it. I've tried a couple of variations of settings when > cloning that partition, but haven't figured it out. > > Everything I've found via Google has been "similar but not the same" > issues, which of course confuses me further. LOL > > Any suggestions? > > > JMJ > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
