SuperDrive not found by boot camp

I have a new MacBook Pro with a usb SuperDrive. I want to create a windows partition but boot camp tells me, incorrectly, that I have no usb drive so I can't even get to the partitioning stage.

Problem solved. It was not that Boot Camp was not finding my SuperDrive, it was simply that in addition to the SuperDrive I also needed to have a usb memory stick connected as well

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I have deleted windows7 in the boot camp but the partition macintosh hd2 is still there...if i try to install windows7 again,it is not showing the boot camp partioned space...

I have deleted windows7 in the boot camp but the partition macintosh hd2 is still there...if i try to install windows7 again,it is not showing the boot camp partioned space...

Update: I did an extended hardware test (just in case a hardware issue was causing my problem)--no problems found. I then went through the Aperture troubleshooting steps: I tried repairing permissions first, but I still could not see any of the images that were in the Aperture trash. I then repaired the library. This seems to have fixed things (at least upon initial assessment). Afterward, I was able to see the images that were in the trash. I opened the Activity Window to see what it said when I tried emptying the trash again. This time it said it was deleting exactly the number of images that I expected it to delete (not twice as many this time!), and it emptied lickety split--as I had expected it to do the first time! So, hopefully, all is now well with my system and library. Still wondering why it was telling me it was deleting twice as many images as were in the trash the last time I tried, but overall, much happier today!

Magic Mouse Not Working with Boot Camp.

Hi All,
I have a wired issue here. I installed Windows XP on my iMac 27" using bootcamp and all worked fine till one day my Magic Mouse stopped working in Windows. Now the funny part is windows is able to detect my mouse and says that the device is working normally but the green light under my mouse is OFF. No matter what i try i cannot get it to come on. But the moment i boot to Mac OS X the mouse works perfectly fine. My Apple Wireless KB works just fine in Windows. A USB mouse also works fine. I have also installed Parallels on my Mac and when i boot into the Windows partition using Parallels the Magic Mouse works fine. Any idea as to whats going on here.?
John.

I have a new (July 2009) iMac24 and neither the wireless mighty mouse nor keyboard work with Boot Camp XP Home Edition SP3. They install OK with the Bluetooth control panel, but then after five or ten seconds, drop out of the control panel and have to be discovered again. I spent two hours today with a Mac support expert, but no joy. We both gave up. It seems the wireless mouse/keyboard does not work with Boot Camp. If anyone hears of a solution, please let me know.

Mouse not working with Boot Camp after 10.5.7 update

I upgraded to 10.5.7 recently, and now my mouse doesn't work on Boot Camp. It doesn't seem to register, and I can't move the pointer. I tried this with two mice that worked just fine on the Mac OSX side. Any ideas? Has anybody else noticed this?

I have a new (July 2009) iMac24 and neither the wireless mighty mouse nor keyboard work with Boot Camp XP Home Edition SP3. They install OK with the Bluetooth control panel, but then after five or ten seconds, drop out of the control panel and have to be discovered again. I spent two hours today with a Mac support expert, but no joy. We both gave up. It seems the wireless mouse/keyboard does not work with Boot Camp. If anyone hears of a solution, please let me know.

"Your bootable USB drive could not be created" "Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use an ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation."

I try to install windows7 system on my macbook air, which version is 10.8.5. When I open the bootcamp, it let me to choose a windows ISO image, which I've already downloaded from this website: http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325 /, it also asked me to select a USB drive, which is kingston that has 8GB. Then when I clicked "continue", it said that "Your bootable USB drive could not be created" "Boot Camp only supports 64-bit Windows installation on this platform. Please use an ISO file for 64-bit Windows installation." But actually the ISO image I downloaded is 64-bit windows7. I don't know why this would happen. Could someone help me please!!

Thanks for your feedbakc Kiranjj!
I identified the reason to be that the W8 installation file didn't download completely from a Mac OS-device. I downloaded from another Win-device and the moved the installation file with a USB-stick and then everything worked diectly! But thanks anyway.

Dual monitor not working under Boot Camp on Mac Pro ATI HD 2600 XT

Recently got a brand new Mac Pro with ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card.
On the Mac side (Leopard), everything works perfectly: my second monitor (a plasma screen connected with HDMI to the second DVI of the ATI card via HDMI/DVI adapter) is fully recognized and it works as an extended desktop or in Mirroring mode.
Under Boot Camp (Windows XP Pro) however, NOTHING: the second monitor always appears in the display properties, but it is grayed out (inactive), and when I try to activate it, it switches back to being grayed out immediately and nothing gets displayed on it.
After reading all the posts I can find on the topic, I tried the following (in pretty much every possible combination - Thank god for WinClone that allows me to restore the Boot Camp basic install image without having to reinstall Windows from scratch every time):
a) Bootcamp 2.0 (installed by default by Bootcamp assistant)
b) Update to Bootcamp 2.1
1) Windows XP Pro SP2c vanilla install (from my Windows XP pro install disk)
2) Update to Windows XP SP3 (I tried with and without BC 2.1: both worked -> BC 2.1 didn't seem to be required for SP3 - maybe because this is a mac pro and not a MB or MBP)
i) ATI drivers installed by default by Boot Camp assistant (BC 2.0) or by BC 2.1
ii) Latest ATI drivers found on ATI web site specifically under Boot Camp / Mac Pro.
Note: Interestingly, the catalyst installer worked ok (provided .NET framework 2.0 is installed though), but it seems that the Radeon BootCamp/Mac Pro driver set itself from ATI's web site does NOT include a driver for the HD 2600 XT - so when I install this driver set, it tells me that no compatible hardware was found...
iii) Latest ATI drivers found under Windows XP (these did include one driver specifically for the Radeon HD 2600 XT)
NOTHING seems to work. I read posts (most of the from late last year) about ATI Catalyst utility showing a 3rd monitor at some point, but I never got any 3rd monitor showing in any of my many many trials with Catalyst. I have yet to get a single image appear on my plasma under Bootcamp Windows. I don't believe its the hardware because everything works great on the max OS X side.
I am actually considering switching to an NVidia 8800 GT just to get the dual screen to work under BootCamp/Windows XP because I really need it and I read everywhere that drivers for NVidia are far better than ATI ones.
Any advice? What should I try next before getting an 8800 ?
Is there a diagnostic utility that I can use to test my config including the GC?
Thanks!

Hi there aside from my laptop I have an iMac 20" with the same HD 2600 XT card. I recently installed the Catalyst 8.6 driver by using a driver mod from driverheaven, I use Vista 32. By installing it this way I got boosted performance and many issues with the bootcamp drivers were fixed. As you may already know the ATI drivers do not install on bootcamped macs usually but the mod tool fixes this. Its unofficial so do so at your own risk but try it out and see if you get the second monitor if not just rollback. Hope this helps and I didn't want to say too much about the 8.6 driver mod because it may not be allowed here but google will provide any answers.

My DVD drive is now not recognized in boot camp.

I just found the Matshita DVD-R UJ-898 is no longer recognized in Boot Camp Win 7. Tried uninstalling in Device Manager but the driver fails to load upon restart and also fails when trying to update. The DVD drive works fine in OSX Lion so I know the drive is ok. It worked fine when I first installed Windows 7 in Boot camp last year. This is an early 2011 macbook Pro 17 with Lion. All updates have been installed. Hadn't used the drive in Win 7 for a long time so not sure when it ceased to work.

Found the solution. Microsoft Fix-It found and made the driver repairs automatically.

Windows 8 does not restart in Boot Camp

I installed Windows 7 in Boot Camp under Mountain Lion, then upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from within Windows on the Boot Camp partition. Initially I had tried to do a clean install of Windows 8 but received an error message that the version of Windows 8 I had was not designed for a clean install. In any case, Windows 8 worked fine - until I shut it off and tried to restart. After disabling sleep or any type of shutdown in OS X 8.2, I tried starting Windows 8 once more and was able to do so. However, after an normal restart following downloading updates, I get only a blue screen when attempting to start Windows 8. Additionally, Windows 8 will not start from a Windows 8 Install disk (which Boot Camp can recognize and use as the start disk). Have others had this problem? What have you done?

Hi All, thanks for interacting. However, I think the solution may be different than any of us suspected. After installing Windows 7 - and having it work well - I let Windows sleep and found to my consternation that I had the same black bios screen when attempting to reboot it. So I checked the forums to see if anyone else had that problem. Lo and behold, I found a post that said Windows 7 wouldn't reboot when he had an HD attached. I took that as a clue. Here's what I wrote to him:
"Interestingly enough, I had problems with Windows 7 (as well as Windows 8) restarting with some external HDs attached - three different ones, actually. After reading your note, I wondered if the issue with the failure of Windows 7 to restart might have to do with the fact that the HDs were attached. I ejected them in OS X and then tried a reboot - Voila! There was Windows 7, all happy again.
With respect to checking to see if the HDs are boot options, OS X (I'm using 8.2) does that prior to an OS coming up. If you hold down the Alt key while Boot Camp is restarting the Windows and Mac disks come up along with the Mac Recovery partition - not the external HDs (unless, I suppose, you had an OS on them). So Boot Camp already seems to know that they're not bootable. The problem might be that Windows is trying unsuccessfully to wrest control of those HDs from the Mac OS. What about it all you techs out there? Any ideas?" ....
Now I'm tempted to re-install Windows 8 and determine whether that was the basis of the non-boot problem I experienced under 8 - rather than there being no drivers from Apple yet. However, I have a few pieces of Windows software that are not compatible with version 8, so I'm going to leave well enough alone for now. Anyone else care to try it?

Windows partition will not open using Boot Camp on iMac 10.9.5

OS: 27" desktop iMac, Maverick 10.9.5, 8 GB RAM
HD Partions: iMac OS X, Windows 7, Boot Camp
For some unknown reason I am having problems getting Windows 7 to open after starting up in Boot Camp, and it's getting progressively worse. After starting Boot Camp I select the Windows 7 partition and either click on that icon or press "Return/Enter". This is where everything freezes and I have to shut down and reboot again into Boot Camp to try again. Sometimes it works, other times not. I've already tried 8 times tonight but can't get into the Windows 7 partition. The OS X partition and everything else is working fine and I have all of my updates.
Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dennis

I am trying to boot into an existing W7. When I turned on the computer this morning I booted straight into Boot Camp and then successfully went into W7 with no problems, never going into the OS X partition. I later rebooted straight into OS X (the default startup) and read your comments.
I entered the four lines of commands you suggested in Terminal and this is what I got...
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            837.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                162.3 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
   1:               Windows_NTFS FreeAgent GoFlex Drive 500.1 GB   disk1s1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups    499.8 GB   disk2s2
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 1634773168      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1635182808     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1636452352   317071360      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 1634773168] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1635182808 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1636452352 - 317071360] HPFS/QNX/AUX
dennisetonsimac:~ denedg$

Network Adapter not working on Boot camp (windows 8)

I have recenlty installed Windows 8 via Boot camp and every thing okay except Wireless connection not detect and I found that there is ? mark on Network adapter in the Device manger which means there is a problem installing the device. I have uninstalled and reinstalled but nothing happend.
I try to serach for a solution but I could not Please help me with that!

Hello, you managed to solve the problem?
I'm having the same problem and still not found the solution.

Intel vt-x not supported on boot camp windows 7 (virtualbox and microsoft detection tool)

Hello,
I've a MBP mid-2010 that is running a Windows 7 Pro as boot camp partition (business needs).
I've installed virtualbox on the Windows 7 OS, but I can't access the "accelration" tab under the system settings.
When running an imported OVA system (that uses Intel VT-x) I get an error message saying :
"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot."
Using the Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool, I get the confirmation that it is not available on my computer.
Which is really strange because it is working perfectly under Mac Os X Mavericks (and previous).
Anyone has an idea ?
Regards,
Franck.

I have this exact same issue, except I'm trying to use Hyper-V in Windows 8.1. Windows is running via Bootcamp 5, I have a late 2013 Macbook pro model.
I get the error message Hyper-V cannot be installed: Virtualization support is disabled in the firmware.
After poking around online, most information points to the Mac EFI firmware. It might be an update is available there that will help with VT-X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1237
However, there's no update for my particular Macbook. I've only found one workaround that I don't really know how/why it works.
1. Power off my macbook, completely shut down.
2. Hold the option key to boot into OSX Mavericks instead of Windows.
3. Restart from OSX and let Windows boot by default.
For some odd reason, VT-X is now enabled. This may be specific to my Mac. It's a Macbook Pro 2013, 15'' - '11,3' model.

Mac HD not visible in Boot Camp

Hi,
Just installed Boot Camp on my new Fusion Drivew 27" iMac. All is well, except that on my previous iMac, I could see and access my OS X partition from within Windows. On my new iMac, for some reason the OS X partition isn't visible in Windows.
It's not a particularly big deal, but can anyone with the same setup confirm, please? I'm assuming it's something to do with the Fusion Drive.
Thanks,
J

I have been having this issue as well. I called AppleCare support and asked about this anomaly, and the guy and his manager had no idea that Boot Camp ever did this. Actual quote from 15 minutes ago:
[Me] "So in answer to my question, Boot Camp no longer supports access to the OSX partition. Is this right?"
[Tech Support Guy] "Yes."
Lol, wut? I found some post on MacRumors that had the drivers for this feature from Boot Camp 4.0, but I found the same files in Windows/System32/Drivers. I installed Windows 7, but my friend who installed Windows 8 has the same problem, so at least it's consistent. I agree that they just need to patch the drivers to support Fusion Drive. I suspect it will be fixed whenever the patch comes out to fix the 3TB Fusion Drives with Boot Camp.

IMac with 3TB Fusion drive will not partition under Boot Camp

I have a 27" iMac with a 3TB Fusion drive and I am using 10.8.4.
I am trying to install Windows 8 Pro with Boot Camp. Everything starts well enough, but once I get to "Create a Partition for Windows" and setting a 505 GB Windows partition, it begins the process, but then seems to stop progressing with the status indicator pretty much stopped at a point directly under the "d" in the "Status: Partitioning disk.."
I've let it run for the past 1.5 hours and it hasn't budged.
This is not my first attempt at doing this on this machine. I tried manually partitioning with Disk Utility which pretty much ended up in a disaster that I was able to repair with some difficulty. That was covered in this thread.
I realize that 3TB drives were not supported under 10.8.3, but I thought that was fixed. Am I wrong?

This is a bit of a guess and you might have do a bit of further reading to understand what I am trying to say but basically:
When you buy a Mac - its Hard Disks come partitioned using the GPT partitioning scheme that is used for the UEFI boot process (All new Windows 8 badged computers have UEFI now as well - Macs have been using it for years). This is opposed to the old MBR partitioning scheme that was used with the BIOS boot process.
There are quite a few limitations of the MBR partitioning scheme including:
1. A limit of 4 partitions per volume
2. A limit of 2 TB per partition
3. Poor support for AHCI
When you run Boot Camp - it turns your partitioning into a hybrid of the two, so you get stuck with all the limitations of MBR - with the second bullet point above I suspect of giving you issues.
You have a couple of possible solutions:
1. Test with having all partitions less than 2 TB
or
2. (Technical) Try and install Windows 8 in EFI mode - its a bit tricky at the moment and a little bit of work - but I have it working on my MacBook Pro (although I do have nVidia graphics driver issues that you may or may not encounter as well). See my wiki at multiboot.info for links if you want to attempt this

Dvd drive not seen in boot camp

I just installed Windows 8.1 in Boot Camp. However, windows does not seen the internal DVD drive. It is not even in Device Manager. I have installed the latest Apple drivers. Any help would be appreciated.

You may want to try patchburn
http://www.patchburn.de/

[Solved] grub2: file not found but booting fine

I just ran grub-mkconfig to update my grub.cfg because I installed E4rat. But now I have a problem: Every entry in grub2 can be booted and E4rat really boosted my boot process so actually everything is fine. But while grub2 is loading it says something like:
Grub 2 is loading...
Welcome to Grub 2!
error: file not found.
error: file not found.
error: file not found.
Now grub shows up and everything is as it should be. When I select Arch it again says "error: file not found." three times and continues with a normal boot process. So basically it's nothing that would brake my system but something seems not right and that's just a huge annoyance.
Here's my grub.cfg just in case:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
set menu_color_normal=light-blue/black
set menu_color_highlight=light-cyan/blue
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos5'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos5 --hint='hd0,msdos5' f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=1440x900x32
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_GB
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_input console
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos5'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos5 --hint='hd0,msdos5' f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
fi
insmod png
background_image -m stretch /boot/grub/archlinux.png
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Arch Linux GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos5'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos5 --hint='hd0,msdos5' f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
fi
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175 ro init=/sbin/e4rat-preload quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-black
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
menuentry 'Arch Linux GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel (Fallback initramfs)' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-fallback-f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos5'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos5 --hint='hd0,msdos5' f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175
fi
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=f7960d1a-77ab-4230-ab43-ff931f0b2175 ro init=/sbin/e4rat-preload quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-black
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry 'Windows 7' {
set root='(hd0,1)'; set legacy_hdbias='0'
parttool "$root" boot+
chainloader '+1'
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
And my /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch Linux"
# Default:
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
# Splashy boot:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet loglevel=3 logo.nologo console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-black"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/sbin/e4rat-preload"
# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
# Uncomment to enable Hidden Menu, and optionally hide the timeout count
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
# Uncomment to use basic console
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=console
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
# GRUB_GFXMODE=auto
GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900x32
# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/archlinux.png"
# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx"
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors. Used by normal and wallpaper
# modes only. Entries specified as foreground/background.
GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="light-blue/black"
GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"
# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/path/to/wallpaper"
#GRUB_THEME="/path/to/gfxtheme"
# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
I haven't updated my grub.cfg in a while because there was no need to.
Thanks in advance for advices.
Last edited by retzu (2012-04-16 14:16:02)

I have the same error message as in the first post. "error: file not found" listed three times when I first choose Arch from the Grub2 menu. The solution linked to by the.ridikulus.rat would not seem to apply as I do not have the locales en* in /boot/grub/locale BTW, I am in the US. The system does boot though.
I just fixed this a few seconds ago and was going to post how, basically I just did "cp /boot/grub/locale/[email protected] /boot/grub/locale/en_US.mo" which seem to do the trick, the reason I didn't fix this sooner is the error only stays up for a very small fraction of a second making it hard to read.
# ls /boot/grub/locale
ast.mo da.mo fi.mo hu.mo it.mo nl.mo ru.mo uk.mo zh_CN.mo
ca.mo de.mo fr.mo id.mo ko.mo pl.mo sv.mo vi.mo
EDIT: I get the same three "error: file not found" messages when I boot Fedora (a multiboot system). This is with grub2 installed from Arch Linux.
Last edited by David Batson (2012-05-02 20:03:41)

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