[SOLVED] Grub refuses to boot Arch on a dual boot

Question

Hi,
After hours of trying things out and searching the web for answers, I finally gave up and joined this helpforum.
I found several similar topics, but none seemed to work.
So here's the deal.
My HDD looks like this
sda1 (/boot)
sda2 (Windows7, bootflag)
sda3 (/swap)
sda5 (/)
sda6 (NTFS ExtraData)
So i'm trying to dual boot windows7 and arch.
my menu.lst looks like this:
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Windows boots fine, but when I try to boot Arch I get this
Booting 'Arch Linux'
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 ro
error 15: File not found
Thanks,
Chris
Last edited by preute (2011-12-12 18:51:16)

Answer 1

I think that the lines
root (hd0,4)
are wrong. They are for GRUB's root (which is /boot), not /. So I think it should be
root (hd0,0)
instead.