vista with xubuntu+dual boot

[Karl Larsen]

Donny George wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> during the installation of the xubuntu the partioner had detected my ntfs
>>> files. and even the gparted does detect my ntfs partitions though its
>>>       
>> shows
>>     
>>> an red exclamation mark on the primary vista partition.
>>>       
>> I cannot say what the red "!" means (as I'm not around an Ubuntu
>> machine or have access to gparted man pages) but I assume it's
>> something along the lines of overlapping partitions or something
>> similar which needs to be sorted out at some stage. Someone else will
>> have to give you advice on this as I'd be working blind.
>>
>>     
>>> the grub/menu.lst has only options for ubuntu and ubuntu recovery mode
>>>       
>> and
>>     
>>> ubunu memtest86
>>>
>>> the partition is as follows
>>>
>>> sda1 ntfs 35 gb
>>>       
>> sda1 is your primary Vista partition? Could you clarify please.
>>
>>     
>>> sda2 ntfs 15 gb
>>>       
>> sda2 is a data partition perhaps? Cold you also clarify this.
>>
>>     
>>> sda5 swap 1 gb
>>> sda6 exts 18 gb
>>>
>>> i happened to come across a post which modifies the grub/menu.lst to get
>>>       
>> the
>>     
>>> grub with vista option
>>>       
>> All you should need to do is insert a stanza for your Vista partition
>> - to do this we need to know which of the two ntfs partitions listed
>> above (sda1, sda2) is your actual Vista partition. Clarify that and we
>> should be able to give you a cut 'n' paste entry for your menu.lst
>> file, you can then run an grub update and pot the output from the
>> update to ensure it looks ok... and you're good to go.
>>
>>     
>>> thanks for ur help
>>>       
>> No worries - jsut tell us which partition is Vista and we'll knock up
>> a Windows stanza for you.
>>
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>
>
> hello
>
> the primary vista partition is sda1 ntfs 35 gb
>
> cud u guide me ?
>
>
>   
    As it happens Windows ALWAYS has /dev/sda1 or hd(0,0) so that is 
what you use for grub.

Karl


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