I have Feisty, Vista and XP installed in my machine and i am going nuts trying to make XP work again.
I can select the 3 options from grub..
Ubuntu boots fine, the vista boot loader also works.. but the XP option gives me a black screen and nothing else.
I checked the /boot/grub/menu.lst and the output from the df command, and the entry in the grub menu is right, on /dev/sda4.
And then i tried changing the partition number in the boot.ini file to 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 and still no luck.
I have the 3 necesary files for xp to boot in that partition, boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr.
i think that maybe my problem is the way i have partitioned my disk.. looks like a mess.. but it should work.
here is the picture of my disk management in vista so you can see whats going on:
C, E, D, and F are NTFS partitions... and XP is installed on the Wingames (F. That is the one im trying to boot.
The other partitions without letters 14gb and 690mb are ubuntu and the swap partition..
the temp partition is a logical drive that i created so i could make more than the 4 limit partitions to be able to install ubuntu.
do any of you have any experience on this?
thanks a lot