Windows 7: Dual boot only shows Windows 7

gallicbear · 11 Mar 2012

Hi there. Here is my situation. I have been dual-booting with Mandriva for a week or so. The GRUB works fine and gives me a nice bluish screen with the 3 boot options (Windows 7, Mandriva, Mandriva safe). I get into each OS as expected. However, the puzzling thing is, when I go into Startup and Recovery and look at the boot manager, it only shows Windows 7 and the winloader, instead of two entries. Is there any explanation to that? Regards.

codekiddy · 11 Mar 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by gallicbear

... when I go into Startup and Recovery and look at the boot manager ...

In wich startup and recovery you go?
startup and recovery of Windows 7 loader or
startup and recovery of GRUB loader?

In case you're going into startup and recovery of Windows 7 loader then this as it supposed to be,
because windows won't recognize anything related to linux, or non-NTFS/fat stuff.

Golden · 11 Mar 2012

Hi,

Startup & Recovery is a Windows-based environement, so it will not read the GRUB bootloader of Linux.

Regards,
Golden

gallicbear · 11 Mar 2012

Thanks for your answers. That kinda answers my question. I see that in right click 'mycomputer'->system properties->advanced->Startup and Recovery.
Didn't realize there was also a way to see that elsewhere.

Golden · 11 Mar 2012

No worries

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