vista with xubuntu+dual boot

[Donny George]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> 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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> >> Steve
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> >>
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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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thankyou so much karl

the solution was indeed helpful

thankyou one and all
-- 
Donny George
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