GRUB Problems

jim jim at meyerpottery.com
Sun Jan 23 01:59:05 UTC 2005


I installed Ubuntu after win XP and the grup menu.lst has the same info
that you posted:
# 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

my hda looks like this:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1           7       52888+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2               8         750     5617080    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3   *         751        4368    27352080   83  Linux
/dev/hda5               8         684     5118088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6             685         750      498928+  82  Linux swap

Notice that the grub menu.lst points to the first partition on the HD
not to the NTFS partition on /dev/hda5. The first partition is not my
win XP system but a blank fat16 partition that I thought I would use
sometime in the future.
Hope this helps your dilemma.

JIm







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