Originally Posted by enrico_dvchp

Hi all, I've tried to install gfxboot and I've lost my Windows partitions. Only by understanding something new about fstab and uuid codes I've restored my old-fashioned but stable Grub. Anyway I am curious to know my mistake. I've followed these steps to install gfxboot:
1) sudo apt-get remove grub
2) sudo dpkg -i grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.deb
3) From Gnome-look.org I've downloaded the Cristal Gfxboot Grub theme.
4) From terminal: sudo cp message.cristal /boot/grub/
5)sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
and insert at the top of the file the string:
gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.cristal
6)sudo grub --> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1(hd5,0) (my Ubuntu partition);
grub> root (hd5,0)
grub> setup(hd5,0) grub
grub> quit
7) Reboot but the animation doesn't work. Only the ordinary multi boot menu. In this case I've followed the hint to install grub in my Ubuntu partition, /dev/sda6, in my case.
Terminal: grub-install /dev/sda6.
This time gfxboot works well but my old multi boot menu is replaced by Ubuntu, Memtest and Ubuntu recovery mode. Windows XP and Fat 32 partition had been lost. That's true I have restored my system but now I cannot use gfxboot. Can you help me to understand what is the failed step?

Thanks in advance.

Enrico_dvchp

This is my current menu.lst with message.cristal commented out.
---------------------------menu.lst--------------------------
# gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.cristal
...
## default num
...
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0

## timeout sec
timeout 10

# Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/blue
...
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
...
## ## End Default Options ##
...
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
boot

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
...
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
----------------endfile-------------------------------------