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    Angry loaded UDUNTU and now can't boot to my XP Pro

    I just finished my install of UBUNTU which loaded grub as the software to choose which system to boot to. MY problem is that I can't get to XP via this boot loader. I did find a command format that should allow XP to boot (in the installation guide), but it did not do it. The commands that I used are as follows:

    unhide (hd0,0)
    hide (hd0,1)
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
    makeactive
    boot

    when grub runs this it stops after the last command and nothing happens.

    does the command need to be in the exact order as shown? I do have two of them swapped around (the chainloader and makeactive).

    Thanks,

    Buttonpusher69
    Last edited by buttonpusher69; 01-01-2005 at 10:31 AM.

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    I don't use grub myself but you might want to have a look at this search:

    http://www.justlinux.com/forum/searc...der=descending

    Or search on www.google.com/linux for grub and windows xp

    Hope you get it sorted
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    buttonpusher69,

    Here is the relevant section from my /boot/grub/menu.lst

    # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
    # on /dev/hda1
    title Windows NT/2000/XP
    root (hd0,0)
    savedefault
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

    I have also attached my entire /boot/grub/menu.lst for you to look at.

    This is dual boot system with Ubuntu and Win XP.

    Hope it helps.
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    Lightbulb Sucess

    boot loader problem (GRUB)

    Oh, yes I'm a noobe with Linux and with this boot loader, but I was able to find the information that was needed to edit the grub.conf file. The entries that was installed by Ubuntu was incorrect and the following was needed:

    title=windows xp
    rootnoverify=(hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

    once I had changed it to the above and re-booted the system it read the config and when XP was selected it started to load. Course I paniced and started a reload of the XP OS so now I have a clean load of that along with my new load of Ubuntu

    Thanks for the assistance - Kirrles01 and deathadder

    Buttonpushe

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