Fixing Grub 2 dual boot issue with windows 7 - Fedora 17

Pc is configured dual boot with windows 7 and fedora 17.  


Windows boot manger got corrupted and unable to boot. Grub2 boot loader comes up with windows 7 boot entry but selecting to boot to windows 7 started giving boot mgr error.

I fixed windows boot issue first with win 7 cd then reinstalled grub2 using Fedora 17 live cd

  1. Fix windows 7 boot mgr

Use windows 7 installation cd to fix the win 7 boot issue
Boot from the windows 7 cd
  • Repair Your Computer




  • Select User Recovery tools



  • Startup Repair



This will find the installed windows and fix windows 7 boot issue. Windows 7 will erase grub 2 boot loader and install windows 7 boot manager so we will not be able to access  fedora. Now we have to install grub again to be able to dual boot properly.

2. Reconfigure Grub 2 for dual boot


Start the pc with fedora 17 live cd
Start a terminal
Change user to root
su - root
Mount the root partition
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

As I have separate partition for boot, I have to mount root partition and the boot partition

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

(I am mounting to the boot directory in the previous mounted root partition so that grub2 installs on the correct location)

Root partition = /dev/sda2
Boot partition =/dev/sda1



  • Now install grub2
grub2-install –root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda





add windows boot in to the grub boot loader

grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg






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