GRUB problem every time I reboot

[Paul]

On Dec 13, 2007 11:40 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/2007 04:27 AM, Paul wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2007 8:50 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> You said that the only way that you can boot into windows is by:
> >
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The only way the machine will boot _at all_ is if I do that.  It won't
> boot
> > Ubuntu either...it just cycles endlessly.
>
> Ok, missed that & also missed that you have XP on a second drive. Wipes
> glasses & starts over...
>
> Couple of questions first:
>
> 1. You originally had a 2 drive XP machine & added Ubuntu to the 2nd
> drive, correct?
>
> 2. If you disconnect the 2nd drive (the Ubuntu drive) can you boot into
> XP properly?
>
> 3. When you installed Ubuntu, how did you do it? From the LiveCD or the
> Alternate CD?
>
> I have several machines that are dual boot with XP on one drive and
> Ubuntu on the 2nd drive. The machines originally had only one XP drive
> in them & I added the second Ubuntu drive later. If you look through the
> archives you'll find a post that I made a short while ago that explains
> how I do this, see:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/130435
>
> Have a look through that and see if that helps. Note that the menu.lst
> has been modified to swap the grub drive maps:
>
> ## Non-linux OS on /dev/sdb1
> ## title              Windows XP
> ## root               (hd1,0)
> ## savedefault
> ## makeactive
> ## map                (hd0) (hd1)
> ## map                (hd1) (hd0)
> ## chainloader        +1
>
> On that machine my primary boot drive is hd0,0:
>
> ## ## End Default Options ##
>
> title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-386
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-386 root=UUID=<longuuid> ro quiet
> splash
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-386
>
> My Windows drive is hd1,0 as far as grub is concerned:
>
> # on /dev/sda1
> title           Windows XP
> root            (hd1,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> map             (hd0) (hd1)
> map             (hd1) (hd0)
> chainloader     +1
>
> My Ubuntu is actually on sdb1, so my fstab looks like this:
>
> # /dev/sdb1
> UUID=<uuidofsdb1> /        ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0  1
>
> Swap is also on sdb:
> # /dev/sdb5
> UUID=<uuidofsdb5> none            swap    sw            0       0
>
> XP is on sda1:
> /dev/sda1 /media/windows     ntfs iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0 0


Ok, here's something that's been confusing me.  My Ubuntu is on hd2,0.  But
what is sbd or sbc2 and all that other stuff?

>
Basically, what needs to go in my menu.lst to stop this behavior, given my
hardware setup?
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