dual boot - xp behaves strange

[Rares Vernica]

Hi,

I tried the changes that you suggested. The Linux partition boots OK. 
The Windows partition does *NOT* boot. I tried with "root" and also 
"rootnoverify".

Attached are the error messages.

Thank you very much,
Ray

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rares Vernica wrote:
> 
>> I think grub is installed on the ubuntu partition not on MBR and I think 
>> windows hides the partition so that the Windows partition gets to be the
>> only one bootable.
> 
> OK, it looks pretty normal - very much the same (except for partition
> numbers) as a multiboot system where windows was on the first partition. 
> So I have to guess that Windows is trying to fix what it sees as a problem,
> because it wants to be on the first primary partition.
> 
> For background on what I'm about to suggest, see
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
> 
> Add these (hide and unhide) lines to your menu (you may need to
> change "root" to "rootnoverify" for the Windows boot entry):
> 
> title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-386
> unhide (hd0,0)
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386
> root=UUID=4384d648-886f-4296-9a3b-57cc9aa60230 ro quiet splash
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-386
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> 
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
> # on /dev/hda2
> title           Microsoft Windows XP Professional
> hide (hd0,0)
> root            (hd0,1)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader     +1
> 
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