[Lenovo S205] Adding Windows to GRUB / Shutdown problems

[s0ftcorn]

Hello!

After i somehow managed to install Kubuntu on my S205 and messing around with the EFI (by downgrading GRUB2 to GRUB Legacy), i had to blacklist the "acer_wmi"-Module. My WLAN ist still quite slow but the main problems:
GRUB legacy seems somehow to ignore my windows 7 partition and i dont know on wich partition the Windows 7 Loader ist, trying different ones by adding the following to the menu.lst didnt help:

Title Windows 7
root(hd0,x)
chainloader+1

As i am writing from my desktop machine it might be, that this is not exactly correct, but you get what i added. So: How can i add my windows 7 manually? Do i have to reinstall the Windows 7 Loader as GRUB overwrite it?

My other problem ist: Everytime i shutdown the screen shows:"Killing remaining processes.... [fail]" how much do i have to care about this? And what can i do against it?


btw, as you can see i am quite new to Linux, some shell commands are clear but the vast majority of the time i have no idea what i am doing

[Spadge]

Is your Win7 install EFI style?

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...-Windows-8-EFI

There is a neat little boot-repair app for ubuntu that you could try. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bo...pair_in_Ubuntu

[s0ftcorn]

How can i find out if i have an EFI-Style installation?

btw: i updated my grub-legacy to grub2 (without the grub2-efi package) and all works fine now
Here is exactly what i did:

sudo apt-get remove --purge grub grub-common grub-pc
sudo apt-get install grub-pc
sudo grub-mkconfig
sudo update-grub
sudo grub-install /dev/sda

[Spadge]

generally, if the windows disk is GPT in 3 partitions (windows 8 gives you 4) then you have EFI.

[s0ftcorn]

What does "GPT" mean?

[Spadge]

GUID Partition Table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

[s0ftcorn]

GUID Partition Table

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

And how can i look up if my HDD uses GPT?

[Spadge]

Easiest way in Kubuntu is to open up the partition manager, click view > device information and read 'type' with the disk selected.

[s0ftcorn]

Easiest way in Kubuntu is to open up the partition manager, click view > device information and read 'type' with the disk selected.

Ah nice, thanks. Its MSDOS.

[SteveRiley]

And if your GRUB is grub-pc, then you're booting into BIOS mode on your computer. To boot into UEFI mode, you'll need grub-efi-amd64.