GRUB does not load Windows XP

[Weiers Coetser]

I'm sorry, I responded just now without seeing all the messages. I edited 
menu.lst as suggested and got the following error messages. (This time it 
did not freeze, it asked me to press a key and then returned me to the GRUB 
menu)

Booting "That other Microspft XP OS"
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0x7

root noverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0)(hd1)

Error 11: unrecognised device string

Press any key to continue.

--It seems XP is seeing through the lies i tell.

Sorry... can somebody give me some more adivce. (I added lba=32 on the top 
of the menu.ls <http://menu.ls> file, but it does not seem to have made a 
difference either, so I removed it again.)

Thanks
Weiers

On 7/16/05, Weiers Coetser <coetserw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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