vista with xubuntu+dual boot

[Karl Larsen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>> Subject: Re: vista with xubuntu+dual boot
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:32 AM
>> 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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>>     
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>>>>         
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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
>>
>>
>>     
> Not totally true, Karl. Windows always uses the first partition on a pre-installed OS but it's not necessarily the running OS. On my vista, the first partition is the recovery partition used to restore the original OS if something goes amiss. The second partition , sda2 marked bootable, is the one containing the running OS and is the largest sized partition of the two.
> Having said the above, I would assume the OP's primary bootable partition is sda1 because it's the largest NTFS partition, but running sudo fdisk -l should tell all.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>
>
>   
    That is odd. On my laptop it's Vista running on sda1 and the saftey 
is on sda2.


Karl


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