Grub2: Windows 7 infinite reboot loop

NOTE: This only fixed Windows 7 booting up once. I rebooted after reporting this bug and the same problem still persisted. So not even this fixes the problem!

Binary package hint: grub2

This bug is one of the most annoying I've ever run into. There is a work around that I found on Ubuntu. However obviously nothing has been done to fix this problem; so I'm reporting it today so it can be fixed soon :)

This bug is ALWAYS repeatable. If you want to confirm it install Windows 7 (Vista will work) update grub and reboot. Windows will try to start and it'll fail.

NO THE GRUB2 WORKAROUND LISTED IN THE WIKI DOES NOT WORK! (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2)

The solution can be found in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8363434#post8363434

menuentry "Windows 7 (on /dev/sdb1)" {
      insmod ntfs
      set root=(hd1,1)
      chainloader +1
}
(obviously has to be adjusted according to your Windows partition)

ALSO:

It IS possible to completely remove grub via Synaptic. Reinstall grub add that entry to 40_custom. Update-grub. Then reboot and choose the custom boot menu and Windows 7 will reboot fine. However it booting up fine only occurs one time.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 21 20:26:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: grub2 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1715): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1715): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1840): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1813): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed