------------ Original Message ------------
> Date: Sunday, March 01, 2015 20:06:26 -0500
> From: Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: installing C7 on a laptop with Win7, dual boot
>
> Hi all!
>
> I've just installed C7 on my netbook that already contained Win7
> (and also Fedora 19, which the C7 is intended to replace). The
> Fedora installer had found the windows installation and it
> appeared in the grub menu, and was bootable and worked fine.
>
> The C7 installer did not put the windows installation into the grub
> menu.
>
> with some googling I found a page at
> https://priteshugrankar.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/dual-booting-cent
> os-7-and-windows-7/ that gives a simple recipe for fixing this
> problem. basically:
>
> cp /boot/grub2/grub.cfg orig.grub.cfg
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> with (on his system) the second command above producing this
> output:
>
> [root@localhost ~]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.2-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.16.2-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.img
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.img
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.6.3.el7.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.6.3.el7.x86_64.img
> Found linux image:
> /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-327fe33f3b364802871211321a2790b7 Found
> initrd image:
> /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-327fe33f3b364802871211321a2790b7.img
> Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
> Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
> done
>
> Unfortunately, when I did it, I got this:
>
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.img
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64.img
> Found linux image:
> /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-c875112952114f6284f69abaa4f9a2f7 Found
> initrd image:
> /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-c875112952114f6284f69abaa4f9a2f7.img done
>
> No mention of the windows installation.
>
> It's not that I use the win7 installation much, but I do want to
> be able to do so when one of those rare occasions pops up.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Fred
I too encountered this issue putting centos7 on a win7 machine. The
solution is to:
edit:
/etc/grub.d/40_custom
putting in:
menuentry 'name' {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
}
note: "name" can be anything you want (within reason), and is the
name that will show in the boot menu.
the values here:
root=(hd0,2)
will vary based on your disk setup. if you still have your fc19
grub/grub2 (whichever it used) configuration file you should be able
to confirm the values from that.
when done, then:
grub2-mkconfig -o <output file>
personally, i didn't set the -o to the production grub.cfg file as
my preference is to make backups and check things before potentially
trashing a file like that, but do as you wish. when you're
comfortable with the generated file move it to the production
location and reboot.
- Richard
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