windowsXP Don't boot up!

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Nageswaran Rajendran wrote:
> 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
> 
[...]

Ok I did "fdisk /dev/hdc" then I used p command to print the partition 
table. It looks like this:
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1        2611    20972826    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2            2612        5263    21302190    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc3            5264        7296    16330072+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5            5264        5271       64228+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc6            5272        7296    16265781   8e  Linux LVM

As you can see the boot flag is set on windows partition. May be you 
need to set the bootable flag if it isn't already set using the 'a' 
command in fdisk and I think you want to enable it on partition 2.

BTW if your system had Windows first how did you manage to split it the 
way you did. I mean how come your windows partition comes after ext3 
partition. I also remember reading that Windows like to be in the first 
partition and gives problems elsewhere.

(*Disclaimer:*  I cant be held responsible if your system gets screwed 
up, other losses that happen, .... blah you know the drill right.)
-- 
Regards,
  - Saru
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