I'm honestly not sure how I got to this point as it's been developing for a few weeks, but here's where I'm at now. I figure if nothing else, you guys will get a kick out of how awesome I am at screwing up my own box.
3 HDD's.
1) 250 GB internal, split nearly in half. One half for a Win 7 installation, other for Fedora 13. This is sda.
2) 1 TB internal for storage. This is sdb.
3) 500 GB external for storage. sdc.
My problem is with the 250 GB one (sda). The win 7 partition is sda 1, and like a retard, I installed grub to sda1 instead of sda. At this point when I booted to grub, I could successfully get into Fedora, but if I selected the Windows option it would simply reload grub. I think writing grub to sda1 overwrote the windows boot loader, so I tried to repair it with testdisk. No dice. Now I get nothing at all. So I reinstall grub to sda like I should have in the first place. I can still get into Fedora, but when I select Windows it just gives me the black screen with a blinking _. I think at this point I need to reinstall or repair the Windows boot loader, but I'm not super sure how to do that and test disk didn't appear to work. I also selected the "repair" option from the Win 7 disk, but it prompted me with a message saying something to the effect of "not supported with this disk". I will paste the output of a boot script below for further reference.
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #2 for /grub/stage2 and /grub/grub.conf.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc
sda1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /grldr /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sda2: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /grub/menu.lst /grub/grub.conf
sda3: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: crypto_LUKS
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS'
sdb1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
sdc1: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: MSWIN4.1: Fat 32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
vg_fedora-lv_root: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
Kernel on an ()
Boot files/dirs: /etc/fstab
vg_fedora-lv_home: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:
vg_fedora-lv_swap: _________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 266,245,244 266,245,182 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 266,246,144 267,270,143 1,024,000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 267,270,144 488,396,799 221,126,656 83 Linux
Drive: sdb ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start End Size Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 1,953,503,999 1,953,503,937 7 HPFS/NTFS
Drive: sdc ___________________ _____________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdc: 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 End Size Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 976,768,064 976,768,002 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/mapper/luks-bbe1b0e6-b1f7-4347-94b4-1255fdda8798 lFbgmk-hCiz-fb9f-yqSh-vYYF-oUbZ-zlJMXk LVM2_member
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_home c584230a-da8c-40a9-8349-1f57befc2424 ext4
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root 74345c38-8b3e-4a8a-b2a9-4551be8dc415 ext4
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_swap cf4efabc-bc1a-4ccf-8437-ac5cb836583c swap
/dev/sda1 4E1CD63C1CD61EB1 ntfs
/dev/sda2 ce250d37-1119-4533-8527-ddddc3e0ada8 ext4
/dev/sda3 bbe1b0e6-b1f7-4347-94b4-1255fdda8798 crypto_LUKS
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1 7CB8E273B8E22B7A ntfs Storage
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc1 2FBE-362D vfat My Book
/dev/sdc: PTTYPE="dos"
=============================== "ls -R /dev/mapper/" output: ===============================
/dev/mapper:
control
luks-bbe1b0e6-b1f7-4347-94b4-1255fdda8798
vg_fedora-lv_home
vg_fedora-lv_root
vg_fedora-lv_swap
============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root / ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda2 /boot ext4 (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_home /home ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 /media/Storage fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)
/dev/sdc1 /media/My Book vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
============================= sda2/grub/grub.conf: =============================
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title New Fedora (2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-bbe1b0e6-b1f7-4347-94b4-1255fdda8798 rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedora/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedora/lv_swap rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.img
title Old Fedora (2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-bbe1b0e6-b1f7-4347-94b4-1255fdda8798 rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedora/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedora/lv_swap rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64.img
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
=================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================
136.5GB: grub/grub.conf
136.5GB: grub/menu.lst
136.5GB: grub/stage2
136.3GB: initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64.img
136.3GB: initramfs-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64.img
136.3GB: vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64
136.3GB: vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64
Linear Mode
