windowsXP Don't boot up!

[Nageswaran Rajendran]

Hi all,

I am newbie to linux.

Two days back I installed ubuntu with windows XP in  Toshiba
SatelliteA80-154, notebook.   After installing ubuntu, the problem started.


When windows XP is chosen to boot up in the grub loader, there is a kind of
splash (some messages are shown for a fraction of sec.) and the screen is
blank!--probably it gets hung!--  It looks like the windows is busy in
booting up, but it does not enter into windows.  I do not understand where
the problem is.  But I think it may be a problem of grub loader syntax or
something.

Here I am giving the details of partition list and /boot/grub/menu.lst

my partition list:
/dev/sda1   -- ext3
/dev/sda2   -- NTFS (windows C:/)
/dev/sda4    --ext3 (linux OS)
/dev/sda5    -- Windows VFAT
/dev/sda6    --swap

I could not find much help in online-help.  Can anyone please help me out?!


=============my grub======== menu.lst looks like this
default 0
timeout 10

title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386
root        (hd0,3)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/sda4 ro quiet splash
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
savedefault
boot

title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 (recovery mode)
root        (hd0,3)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/sda4 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
boot

title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386
root        (hd0,3)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/sda4 ro quiet splash
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot

title        Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode)
root        (hd0,3)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/sda4 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
boot

title        Ubuntu, memtest86+
root        (hd0,3)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title        Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title        Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root        (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1
===========================================================


Thanks in advance,
 Cheers,
|Eswar>

--
Nageswaran Rajendran,
Experimental Physics III,
Institutes for Physics,
University of Dortmund,
44221-Dortmund,
Germany.
mail: eswar at chaos.physik.uni-dortmund.de
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