grub problem; lists wrong location for windows
Hello. I listed a problem earlier (# 140039) concerning not being able to get Windows 7 to boot on my ACER Aspire One. Ubuntu netbook 10.10 is working fine, but the dual-boot is messed up.
I think I may have found another problem that may be causing it to not work, that I did not notice [or mention in the earlier post] until now;
When grub loads, it lists Windows 7 (loader) as /dev/sda1, when in actuality (upon checking in the U disk info, it shows the windows partition (acer) as /dev/sda3.
Could this be causing the problem of win. 7 not being able to load?
As I posted in the 1st post, here is what U disk info says about the partitions;
/dev/sda1 is labeled 'PSERVICE' and is 7.8gb, ntfs (I'm guessing this is the w7 erestore partition? Maybe not?)
an 'unallocated' partition of 4.3gb (I have no idea what this is)
/dev/sda3 is labeled as 'Acer' and is 74gb, ntfs
/dev/sda2 is unlabeled, is an extended partition of 63gb
/dev/sda5 is listed as a 'sub partition'(? - I don't know how else to describe it) of 61gb, ext4 file system (is this the ubuntu 10.10?)
/dev/sda6 is shown as 'linux-swap' and is 2gb
Thanks for everyone's help.
Phil
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