Dual Booting Windows

[bob_beyng553]

Sounds like the drive geometry issue has hit you. Was thought to be 
fixed in Warty, but seems like it still shows up for some people for 
some reason (me included). See 
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566 .

A long explanation of the cause and a fix is here: 
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ . While referencing Fedora, it applies to 
Ubuntu as well. The core of the repair is here:

1) Try changing from AUTO to LBA mode in your BIOS for your hard drive.

2) Follow the instructions in the LWN article and use the sfdisk -d 
/dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda commands to reset the drive 
geometry.

No promises that this is your problem, but if it is, one of the two 
above should work.

HTH,

Bob

David Walker wrote:

> I had a Windows (sp2) install on a box of mine and installed off one 
> of those chique cd's.  However post-install I am unable to boot 
> windows.  GRUB tries to boot into windows by chainloader +1 but it 
> justs stops there, and does not go into booting it.  Any ideas or 
> where I can find out how to get it to boot again.  Thanks.
>
> -- 
> dave
>