Grub set up

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 06:12 -0400, Richard E. Barmann wrote:
> What I am attempting to do is set up my dual boot with linux (dapper Dan) and 
> windowsXP again. When I upgraded I messed it up by doing the reinstall.
> Any help would be appreciate
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 3:13 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > sudo fdisk -l
> root at dick-desktop:~# sudo fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1        5629    45214911   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2   *        9637        9728      733320   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda3            5630        9543    31439205   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4            9544        9636      747022+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5            9544        9636      746991   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2651 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1   *           1        2552    19293088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hdb2            2553        2650      740880    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdb5            2553        2650      740848+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> root at dick-desktop:~#                                                   

You have an odd disk and partition order there, but no matter, Linux and
grub can handle that. And the disks are all full so the partition order
on hda doesn't really matter much more.

I assume your Linux / is on hda1 and hda3 is some other partition -
maybe /home? If not, then change the numbers as appropriate below.
Your /boot/grub/menu.lst file probably needs to look something like
this:

title  Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-<insert rest of kernel file name here>
initrd /boot/initrd.img-<insert rest of file name here>

title  Windows
rootnoverify   (hd1,0)
chainloader    +1

Try that, let me know how it goes. If you can't get to the file to edit
it, you can enter these lines directly into the grub boot screen. Do you
know how to do that?

alan