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xp home missing from grub menu
these are my first days as a linux user and so far i love the os, but still need windows. a'ight, here goes:
# 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium M 730 (Sonoma), 533MHz FSB and PCIe x16 chipset # 15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel (Samsung) # 512 MB DDR2 400 MHz ram # 60 GB Ultra ATA Fujitsu 4200rpm hard drive # 64 MB ATi Mobility Radeon X300 > formated the drive using xp disk > installed windows xp home using the ubuntu 8.04.1 lts disk i: > modified the ntsf partition from 55gig to 10gig > designated 10 gig ubuntu partition > designated 2 gig swap area > formated 30-something gigs as FAT32 for shared storage ubuntu installed perfectly, updated, i love it but windows xp home is not showing up on grubs boot menu when i restart. the partition is there when i run sudo fdisk -l in terminal. these are the results: Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1217 9775521 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 1218 2433 9767520 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2434 7296 39062047+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2677 7296 37110150 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda6 2434 2675 1943802 82 Linux swap / Solaris this is what grub's menu.1st file looks like: ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+ root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST the partitions seem to be right and i would hate to have to go through the installs all over again. can i fix this??? thanks in advance for any help. - g |
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title Windows XP root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Note the formatting is probably not proper so don't just copy and paste it in, type it in making sure to indent when necessary. |
Add to bottom of menu list just below the last ubunt entry
title Windows XP rootoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Do not forget to leave a line spacing between your entries. |
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And if you are just starting out, you may want to think about using the latest version - 8.10 (Intrepid).
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thank you guys all very much for your help. it's a big relief to know that there's support so readily available using linux.
so...i tried the suggestions and edited grub's menu.1st file but either i get "error 13 invalid or unnsupported executable format" or "NTLDR is missing" when i attempt to boot xp. so i reinstalled XP on the NTSF partition, it booted fine but got rid of grub. i had to use the Ubuntu LiveCD to reinstall grub so that i could access ubuntu. once i got ubuntu back up i upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 as suggested. a few thing seem to be working better but the boot problem is still the same (i had to re-edit menu.1st for windows to show as an option). i'll post my partition and menu.1st info again in case something changed that i don't see: Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1217 9775521 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1218 2433 9767520 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2434 7296 39062047+ 5 Extended /dev/sda4 2677 7296 37110150 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda5 2434 2675 1943802 82 Linux swap / Solaris title Windows XP Home rootoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=d47f155d-0dcf-4fb5-bed4-86d928d31f92 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+ root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST |
That should be "rootnoverify". See if you still get the NTLDR not found.
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Sorry about the mis - spelled word. Thank you syg00 for cleaning it up.
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it worked!!!! i feel like i owe you guys some beers. thanks so much.
for people using this thread in the future, grubs menu.1st file is located in boot>grub>menu.1st you have to log into it at a root level in order to edit. there's different ways to do that but i use: ALT+F2 > gksudo nautilus gksudo is how you log in at a root level to graphical interfaces and nautilus is ubuntu's file browser. ubuntu rocks. |
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