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Well I'm sure this is a common problem, but I've been struggling for a few hours now and I can't seem to get anywhere or find any useful forum post... so here is my problem:
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop today, which already had Windows XP installed on a 40GB partition (partition sda5)
Now after installing Ubuntu of course it killed my Windows boot record so I have to get Grub to boot into Windows XP, but nothing seems to work.
I am able to read all the data on my Windows partition, just not to boot on it. I must have done something wrong
Here is my partition table:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2 4863 39054015 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2 4864 12158 58597087+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 12159 12280 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 1 1 0 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 2 4863 39053983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
***NOTE: There was no /dev/sda4 before, it appeared here just now... probably because I played around with the "hide" and "unhide" commands
This is my menu.lst (the relevant part):
Code:
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=43483bac-b440-434f-b66c-ab5ba73a3ece ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
## NOTE: I Have also tried this:
## root (hd0,4)
## makeactive
## chainloader +1
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=43483bac-b440-434f-b66c-ab5ba73a3ece ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
The way it looks to me, linux shouldn't boot either - since sda2 is not set bootable, and I don't know what the idea is with sda4. The way it looks to me - The configuration file is fine, but if it's on sda2 it shouldn't be loaded. Do you even get a grub screen on startup? Does it list "Windows XP"
The way it looks to me, linux shouldn't boot either - since sda2 is not set bootable, and I don't know what the idea is with sda4. The way it looks to me - The configuration file is fine, but if it's on sda2 it shouldn't be loaded. Do you even get a grub screen on startup? Does it list "Windows XP"
Yes, it does show the Grub screen... and Windows XP does show up in the list but when I select it it... says something like "invalid device" (something like that).
I've just tried the following and none of the options work:
Code:
default 0
timeout 3
color blue/cyan yellow/magenta
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=43483bac-b440-434f-b66c-ab5ba73a3ece ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=43483bac-b440-434f-b66c-ab5ba73a3ece ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
title Windows XP savedefault 0,0
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP savedefault 0,4
root (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP 0,0
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP 0,4
root (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP savedefault 0,0 rootnoverif
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP savedefault 0,4 rootnoverif
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP 0,0 rootnoverif
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP 0,4 rootnoverif
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP map 0,0
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP map 0,4
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
root (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP map 0,0 rootnoverify
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows XP map 0,4 rootnoverify
map (hd0,0) (hd0,4)
map (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Grub: Windows XP + Ubuntu
