Grub set up

[Richard E. Barmann]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 6:58 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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
This is what I have after changing the last command. With this I get no 
action, (not even press any key to continue).
----
title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-25-386makeactive
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-25-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-25-386
savedefault
boot
makeactivemakeactive
title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-25-386 (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-25-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-25-386
boot

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
savedefault
boot

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386 (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
boot

title		Ubuntu, memtest86+
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin 
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu itemmakeactives below from the 
Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (on /dev/hda3)
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode) (on /dev/hda3)
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title		Ubuntu, memtest86+ (on /dev/hda3)
root		(hd0,2)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin  
savedefault
boot

title		Windows XP
rootnoverify	(hd1,0)
chainloader	+1
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Do I need map? to fool windows.? I hope you can help me get this correct.