Using EasyBCD, I added a entry for a syslinux bootloader, pointing it to "Partition 3 (Linux - 128MiB)." iso (downloaded Friday 5/29)Īt this point, exited the arch-chroot, unmounted/closed my partitions, and rebooted into Win7. booted from USB drive of the Arch installation.
created two unformatted partitions with no drive letter using Minitool Partition Wizard, setting the partition ID to 0x83 for both shrunk C: down from the Win7 built-in partition utility My process for creating the partitions is as follows: dev/sda4: /, encrypted Arch root, cryptsetup/ext4 (created) With that out of the way, here's the process I used: Just wanted to add that, as almost all issues involving dual boot inevitably bring about the suggestion to "just chainload windows from grub/syslinux/etc." the other way around! The computer drive is encrypted with McAfee Endpoint Encryption, and doing anything whatsoever with the MBR from outside of Windows will brick my computer. Just a note up front from scouring the internet for ideas: I cannot use syslinux (or any other bootloader) to chainload Win7 vs.
I got a new work computer and am trying to recreate my formerly successful setup, which I documented here some time ago. The Arch install is sound, it's getting win7/EasyBCD to load it that's the issue. Narrowed down the issue to something unrelated to Arch, and felt this was more accurate. All future operations in EasyBCD will update the manually-loaded BCD store, and not the system boot menu. To go back to editing the local system menu, just choose “Load System BCD” from the “File” menu once more.EDIT: title was 'Dual boot with Win7, easybcd + syslinux, getting "Boot error"'.
Also make sure that you have the viewing of both hidden and operating system files enabled, or else you’ll be unable to browse to the BCD path in EasyBCD’s open file dialog (though you may still enter the path manually if you already know it).ĮasyBCD will then load the BCD and update all pages to show the contents of the manually-selected BCD instead of the system BCD menu. If that’s the case, you’ll need to first manually assign it a drive letter from Computer Management | Disk Management (Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk Management) before being able to open it in EasyBCD. This partition may be hidden if it was automatically created during Windows 7 installation. The BCD store is typically located at the \BOOT\BCD location on the boot partition.
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