Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

[Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John Graddy
> Sent: 02 October 2007 16:30
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 12:12 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:04:56 am John Graddy wrote:
> > > Thanks for the response.
> > >
> > > Windows is NOT in the menu.list file.  I ran 'sudo update-grub
> > > and it still does not appear.
> >
> > Add to your menu.lst if Windows is on the first partition on the
> > first hard drive
> >
> > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a
> > non-linux OS
> > # on /dev/hda1
> > title           Microsoft Windows
> > root            (hd0,0)
> > savedefault
> > makeactive
> > chainloader     +1
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Brian
> >
> 
> I have now tried all of the suggestions that I have received.  None
have
> enabled me to boot windows.  Below are my partition tables (from
parted)
> and my menu.lst boot list.  The 'Windows XP' entry was added by me,
NOT
> generated at install time.
> 
> Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 
> menu.lst entries
> 
> ## ## End Default Options ##
> 
> Title  Windows XP
> root  (hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader  +1
> 
> title		Ubuntu gutsy (development branch), kernel
2.6.22-12-generic
> root		(hd0,1)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic
> root=UUID=c49f3e52-3ea6-4514-9cc2-b12514eb887c ro quiet splash
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-12-generic
> quiet
> 
> title		Ubuntu gutsy (development branch), kernel
2.6.22-12-generic
> (recovery mode)
> root		(hd0,1)
> kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic
> root=UUID=c49f3e52-3ea6-4514-9cc2-b12514eb887c ro single
> initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-12-generic
> 
> title		Ubuntu gutsy (development branch), memtest86+
> root		(hd0,1)
> kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
> quiet
> 
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
> 
> 


Shot in the dark, you could try "map (hd0) (hd1)" in the Windows boot
section. I had to previously.