[SOLVED] Unable to Boot Windows 7 from GRUB

I recently reinstalled Arch onto my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad t520) and have been having problems with Grub. For the last week I've been having trouble getting it to run grub at boot at all, only being able to run windows 7 by flagging it as the bootable drive. The other day I finally got it to boot into grub, and from grub I can boot into Arch. However, I can not boot into windows 7 through grub. When I attempt to, it throws an error:
Invalid EFI file path
I'm somewhat new to arch, and especially new to efi bootloading and such. Right now the only way I can get into windows is either booting from the arch install disk > boot other os and specifying partition 2 (where I have windows installed) or by pressing f12 at boot. When I do this (not sure what the term is, if anyone knows please tell me), it brings up a menu asking where I want to boot with "arch_efi" "cd drive" "Hard drive" etc. I choose hard drive and it will then boot to windows by default. Booting normally takes me to grub where I can boot into arch but not windows. If there's any more info you need please let me know and I'll try to provide it. Thanks in advance.
Also, here is my current partition setup
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 Windows7
/dev/sda3 Extended partition containing sda 5,6, & 7
/dev/sda4 swap
/dev/sda5 /boot
/dev/sda6 /
/dev/sda7 /home
UPDATE
Terminator seems to be right (still on a roll!), so I wiped the partition I had grub on, removed grub, and installed syslinux. Now I have another problem that I'm hoping can be solved in the same thread to avoid another. It boots to syslinux no problem, and I can boot to windows from there all good, but when I select arch I get:
Root device mounted successfully but /sbin/init does not exist
I haven't been able to look for solutions too much on my own, but any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Last edited by IamFuzzles (2012-08-22 04:20:56)

Terminator wrote:If I understand it correctly, what you are trying is impossible: you are trying to boot windows using UEFI on a disk with MBR partitioning. Windows 7 only supports UEFI on discs with GPT partitioning but AFAIK, extended partitions only exist in MBR partitioning.
i also saw this in the arch wiki, but i have a brand new lenovo ideapad y570 running windows 7 64-bit that i'm in the process of setting up for someone, and it has what i think is an efi system partition but the disk uses mbr partitioning. does anyone know why this might be, or is there a way i can verify that the system is actually being booted via bios-mbr?
Last edited by e_tank (2012-08-21 11:56:15)

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Last edited by boydey1 (2011-10-31 06:04:13)

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Here is my menu.lst
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd fastboot acpi_enforce_resources=lax
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Arch Linux Bootchart
title Arch Linux Bootchart
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro init=/sbin/e4rat-preload fastboot logo.nologo quiet init=/sbin/bootchartd
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (3) Mac OS X
title Mac OS X
root (hd1,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
I've tried with both (hd1,0) and (hd1,1), but they on't work
Any idea? As you can see I'm a newbie here
Thanks
Last edited by eherranzr (2014-04-07 15:34:26)

Inxsible wrote:
eherranzr wrote:Is there any way to boot a HDD with a GUID Partition Table (GPT) from grub legacy or I must upgrade to grub 2?
No grub legacy does not support GPT partitions as stated in the wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gr … cessary.3F
try syslinux. its simpler than the mess that is grub2 (IMO, of course )
So, as I have read what I have to do is the following:
Install syslinux
Execute
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
for an "automatic" installation
Create and configure syslinux.cfg (I think I'll ask for some help here)
Make it graphical:
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Reboot
It should work like that. Am I right?

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