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Lint 16 installed in freespace same drive as Win XP but no option to boot to XP
Pure Newbeee here, I installed Mint 16 on my XP system on same drive 80GB with Win XP allocated 40GB and other 40GB as freespace installed mint in freespace (do something else) which ended with:
/boot 800MB /dev/sda5 / 10GB /dev/sda6 /home 27GB /dev/sda7 swap 2GB /dev/sda8 device for bootloader installation was left at /dev/sda Problem is system will only boot to Linux, never get the option to select XP. I checked the system file /boot/grub but there is no menu.lst file I don't know where to go from here, any help appreciated |
The partition information you posted only shows Linux. Boot Mint and open a terminal by simultaneously holding down the Ctrl+Alt+t keys and type: sudo fdisk -l(Lower Case Letter L in the command) to show your partition information and you can post it here. There should be at least one ntfs partition.
Did you use the 'Something Else' option on Installation Type page? If you left the default for bootloader installation and cana boot Mint, you may just need an entry for xp in the cfg file. Quote:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg. Simplest thing to do is to open a terminal and run: sudo update-grub. Watch the output to see if it detects xp. If you don't get results, run: sudo os-prober and then sudo update-grub. |
yancek, thanks for quik response. I performed commands as you suggested, following is results:
Disk /dev/sda: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 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: 0x0009b2c0 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 82317059 41158498+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 82317310 160086015 38884353 5 Extended /dev/sda5 82317312 83879935 781312 83 Linux /dev/sda6 83881984 103411711 9764864 83 Linux /dev/sda7 103413760 156162047 26374144 83 Linux /dev/sda8 156164096 160086015 1960960 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 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: 0x5f300384 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 63 160071659 80035798+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT second suggestion gave the following: skip@skip-desktop ~ $ sudo update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-12-generic Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin No volume groups found done skip@skip-desktop ~ $ sudo os-prober No volume groups found skip@skip-desktop ~ $ Still in trouble |
Add the following to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
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menuentry 'Windows XP' {Code:
sudo gedit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |
D J, thanks for reply, first I don't have a /boot /grub2 "folder" , only /grub. It does have grub.cfg
I tried entering your code as follows, ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry 'Windows XP' { set root='hd0,msdos1' chainloader +1 } ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### however system still boots directly to linux, it seems linux install may have installed /grub, not /grub2 any way to change it, or should entry be at some other point in the grub.cfg file? such as below ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then set have_grubenv=true load_env fi set default="0" if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then menuentry_id_option="--id" else menuentry_id_option="" fi export menuentry_id_option if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}" save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi Thanks JH |
Towards the beginning of the file there woulf be a "timeout" entry. Set it to something greater than one. If there isn't, add
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timeout=10 |
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It isn't really clear if you are seeing xp in the menu and it doesn't boot or if you do not see xp at all, can you clarify? If you don't see a menu, then the timeout change would help. If it still doesn't boot, put the two lines below in the menuentry suggested above, above the set root line. Code:
insmod part_msdos |
D J, thanks again, the timout was set to timeout=1, I changed it to timeout=10 saved and rebooted.
Again system booted directly to linux. Maybe I should try replacing grub with grub2 ??? JH |
How many primary partitions can one have on a hard drive?
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Make a new file in the directory /etc/grub.d with the name "50_win_xp" and make it executable by running "chmod +x" on it. Put the following in it:
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#!/bin/sh -eRefer here for more info: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/g...mozTocId293325 |
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the first is a primary partition. the second one's extended, and the rest are all logical. more than four can't be created due to restrictions, but maybe they can. See here for more: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tition-898740/
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1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are all primary partitions.
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