GRUB does not load Windows XP

[Weiers Coetser]

Hi, thanks for the pointers so far...

>From my limited understanding WinXP is on the HD1,0 partition. Ubuntu is on 
HD0. (/Boot/grub/device.map indicates it as follows: (hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/sda


The WinXP is installed on a SATA drive. Ubuntu is on an older IDE drive.
(When I started the whole install, the computer was booting from the SATA 
drive (which would have made it HD0), but when I installed UBUNTU, the 
installer only asked me if I wanted to install GRUB to the MBR. I responded 
positively, but it seems to have installed GRUB onto the first partion of 
HD1. (Whenever I booted, the computer would boot directly into Windows) It 
never gave me any option to indicate which partition contained the MBR. I 
solved that problem by setting my BIOS to boot from the IDE drive first 
(Which contains my UBUNTU partitions). I then re-installed ubuntu and now I 
can boot into Ubuntu. It gives the Windows option, but when I select it, it 
crashes. I can boot into windows by changing the boot device in the BIOS 
though.

OK... Here is my actual question. I do not see any GRUB config files under 
/ETC. My root directory does have a Boot directory and under that are a few 
files. The only file that seems to have "config" in it is config-2.6.10-5-38. 
Otherwise there is a grub directory and in it is the menu.lst file which 
seems to contain the menu items as well as the commands which result in the 
mentioned error messages.

Which one should I edit? (although all the references seems to be correct in 
the menu.lst file)

Where should I edit the LBA=32 in?

Thanks again.


On 7/16/05, Martin Schmeisser <schmeissermartin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag, den 16.07.2005, 09:38 +0200 schrieb Weiers Coetser:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am having trouble getting GRUB to load Windows XP
> >
> > I get the following display:
> >
> > root (hd1,0)
> > Filesystem type unkown
> > Parition typ 0x7
> > safedefault
> > makeactive
> > chainloader + 1
> >
> > then everything just freezes and I have to reboot.
> >
> >
> > (I had problems to get grub working when I installed ubuntu. For some
> > reason grub would not be written to the MBR of my Windows drive, so I
> > changed the bios setting to boot from the drive on which I wanted to
> > install Ubuntu. I installed ubuntu. It installed GRUB and detected my
> > windows system, but this is now where the above problem comes in.)
> >
> > Any help?
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> on which Hard drive and which partition number is your windows
> installed?
> 
> keep in mind that grub starts counting at 0 so if it is the first
> harddrive on the first partition you would put root (hd0,0)...
> 
> hope that helps!
> 
> cheers, Martin
> 
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