Grub problem. Help!
I installed Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon (Maya) yesterday. I already have Windows XP installed. The first problem I faced was that the grub did not appear. Instead when I started the PC I saw "Frequency out of range - 90 K / 59 HZ" on the monitor and after a while Mint loaded. I posted this problem on the Mint forums and after much efforts and guesses with guidance from the forums I have been successful to bring grub bootloader to choose which OS to use. This was really a very tough problem to resolve. But one thing still remianed unresolved. That is when I select Windows XP it does not boot and the grub boot loader returns.
For your information, this is how I managed to bring the grub bootloader: I had to switch from graphical display to console display. I did the following: “Open a terminal and run: Code: Select all gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub Find the following line of text, and remove the # in front of it: Code: Select all #GRUB_TERMINAL=console Save and close the file and then run: Code: Select all sudo update-grub2 This should make GRUB be able to display again." Now the grub is there but I can't boot into Windows XP. Is there some solution to this problem? I am very confused. I have hope that someone here would be able to guide me in this. Kindly help!:) |
Apparently you aren't alone in encountering this issue.
This blog post should help: http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2012...er-in-mint-13/ |
Thanks for posting your solution; coincidence that I just advised the same in another thread for Ubuntu 12.04. Any distro based on Ubuntu can suffer from it.
Can you please post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the output of sudo fdisk -l. Please use code tags as shown below; type the below two words including the square brackets: [code][/code] Next paste your content or output in between the code tags [code]paste your stuff here[/code] The result will be Code:
your pasted stuff |
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Hi Wim Sturkenboom, I tried to paste the commands exactly as you informed like Code:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg Code:
sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00220022 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 122881184 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 122881185 312560639 94839727+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 122881248 245762369 61440561 e W95 FAT16 (LBA) /dev/sda6 245766144 250066943 2150400 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 250068992 312559615 31245312 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 224 heads, 19 sectors/track, 36724 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe273e273 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 19 156293087 78146534+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT |
The code tags are for the forum only; sorry for not being clear. And /boot/grub/grub.cfg is a (text) file, so you need to open it with an editor, copy the contents and paste here (between code tags ;)).
The specific part that we're interested in is the entry for Windows; mine is this Code:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### |
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