Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

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Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by PCnetMD » 2017/08/08 20:15:24

I upgraded the CentOS kernel on my dual boot laptop from the 6.2 kernel to the 6.8 (Final) kernel and now I've lost my Windows 7 selection from my grub menu.

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# cat menu.lst 
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD rd_LVM_LV=vg_delllapt/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_delllapt/lv_root  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64.img
title CentOS 6 (2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD rd_LVM_LV=vg_delllapt/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=128M rd_LVM_LV=vg_delllapt/lv_root  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64.img
I can't even find the partition that Windows 7 was on:

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# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_root
                       50G  8.3G   39G  18% /
tmpfs                 3.8G  228K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             477M   85M  367M  19% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_home
                      402G  433M  381G   1% /home
r510ftp:/ftp          4.4T  2.0T  2.2T  49% /ftp
r510ftp:/ftp1         5.0T  1.9T  2.9T  40% /ftp1
r510ftp:/ftp2         4.4T  2.4T  1.8T  58% /ftp2
r510ftp:/ftp3         5.0T  2.5T  2.3T  52% /ftp3


# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98926166

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          64      512000   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *          64       60802   487873536   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_swap: 8304 MB, 8304721920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/mapper/vg_delllapt-lv_home: 437.6 GB, 437587542016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53200 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Any suggestions on how to get my dual-boot and Windows 7 NTFS partition back?

Thank you.

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by Whoever » 2017/08/09 01:28:11

What does the following show:

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fdisk -l /dev/sda

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by TrevorH » 2017/08/09 08:36:30

How did you do this "upgrade"?

What it looks like is that you reinstalled from scratch and repartitioned your disk and wiped everything out :-(
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by PCnetMD » 2017/08/09 18:52:44

TrevorH,
I used YUM to update the kernel

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yum update kernel

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by gerald_clark » 2017/08/09 19:35:45

What did you do before you ran "yum update kernel"?
Your information indicates a fresh install followed by an update.

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by TrevorH » 2017/08/09 20:16:34

Your fdisk output shows that you only have 2 partitions on your disk and they take up all available space. Both are Linux partitions. No sign of Windows anywhere there.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by PCnetMD » 2017/08/09 21:25:31

Whoever,

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# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98926166

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          64      512000   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *          64       60802   487873536   8e  Linux LVM

gerald_clark,

We attempted to installed Nessus software, but it would not run with the CentOS 6.2 kernel.
Other than some changes to some of our system management bash and perl scripts, nothing else changed.


TrevorH,

Therein lies the crux of the problem.
This laptop was procured, with Win 7 Pro, and was configured to dual boot about 5 years ago, before I worked here.
The engineer that configured the dual-boot says that all he did was use the CentOS DVD to resize the windows partition and then installed CentOS 6.2. He then modified the grub menu title for "Other OS" to "Windows 7". He doesn't remember doing anything else to it.

I'm hoping I don't have to reload the entire laptop.

Thanks, for all your inputs.

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by jlehtone » 2017/08/11 06:57:32

PCnetMD wrote:The engineer that configured the dual-boot says that all he did was use the CentOS DVD to resize the windows partition and then installed CentOS 6.2. He then modified the grub menu title for "Other OS" to "Windows 7". He doesn't remember doing anything else to it.
You state that you had a working dual boot and then you did

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yum update kernel
Those two steps cannot possibly produce the result that you do show.

There are more information gathering commands:

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blkid
lsblk
pvs
vgs
lvs
With the fdisk I'd prefer options '-luc' over mere '-l'.


PS. If I had a "6.2", I would not start with updating just the kernel. I would update everything else before the kernel, and update the yum before everything else. Some of the other packages do contain tools that are used when installing kernel.

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Re: Dual Boot CentOS 6 and Windows 7 Pro - lost dual boot

Post by TrevorH » 2017/08/11 08:29:37

The engineer that configured the dual-boot says that all he did was use the CentOS DVD to resize the windows partition and then installed CentOS 6.2. He then modified the grub menu title for "Other OS" to "Windows 7". He doesn't remember doing anything else to it.
Let's be charitable and say that he's mistaken...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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