<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Ravi Hope following will help ---------------------------------------------------- 1) Boot using your live CD : ---------------------------------------------------- • Select " Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer " • Once you've login to desktop run Terminal ( Application > Accessories > Terminal ) • Change to root, using this [enter BOLD  lines] command in Terminal: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -i root@ubuntu:~# ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2)  Find Partition location of your Ubuntu: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x10031003 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 6375 19457 105089197+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 6375 11473 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 11474 19457 64131448+ 83 Linux <--- Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Creat mount-point for ubuntu's partition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ root@ubuntu:~# mkdir /media/root ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Mount the partition using this line ------------------------------------------------------------- root@ubuntu:~# mount /dev/sda6 /media/root --------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Confirm your root location by typing this line: --------------------------------------------------------------  oot@ubuntu:~# ls /media/root bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz boot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old cdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var If those lines above appear, go to the step 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 6) proceed by installing GRUB2 ----------------------------------------------------------- root@ubuntu:~# sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /media/root/boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda ---------------------------------------- 7) Reboot your system ------------------------------------------ If in any case you do not see windows xp in GRUB menu do the following steps to resolve the issue 1) Boot into your ubuntu 2) go to the terminal ( you just need to update you grub so that it can find the windows installation, this can be done by the following command ) username@systemname:~$ sudo update-grub2 [sudo] password for ubuntu: Generating grub.cfg ... Found Debian background: apollo.tga Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows xp (loader) on /dev/sda1 done 3) try reboot again , now you will see windows xp in grub menu Regards <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Unix)"> <meta name="AUTHOR" content="livewire "> <meta name="CREATED" content="20100413;16400600"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="livewire "> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20100413;16433900"> <style type="text/css">  </style> Jatin Khatri Web <a href="http://www.khatrijatin.co.nr/">www.khatrijatin.co.nr</a> <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin">www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin</a> Phone (+91) 98250 20393 Save Paper, Save Environment.** (Plant at least one tree in your life and nurture it !!!) </div> </body> </html>