Grub not opening Windows

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a new install of Kubuntu 9.04 dual booting with WIndows, the user
> cannot boot Windows. The system has two hard drives: Windows on sda
> and Kubuntu on sdb. When I performed the install the BIOS was set to
> boot from sda, but as Kubuntu and Grub installed to sdb I changed the
> BIOS to boot from sdb. Now after I made the BIOS change when the user
> selects Windows from grub the "Starting Up..." Windows message sits
> there for hours, he never gets to the Windows splash screen. If he
> presses Enter then he sees a message about his network card looking
> for a DHCP server.
> 
> Changing the BIOS to boot from sda instead of sdb lets Windows boot
> normally, therefore I suspect no problems with he Windows install.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this? It is not practical for the user to change
> his BIOS settings per which OS he needs to boot. Thanks!
> 
	My BIOS changed the number of the drive depending on many factors. It
was so bad I have just one Hard Drive on that computer now. It depends
on how old the BIOS is. And I had one IDE and one of the new Serial fed
hard drives.

	What your guy needs to do is decide which BIOS setting to use, and then
re-write the /boot/grub/menu.lst file at the windows partition to agree
with the actual conditions. I would use Partition Editor to determine
the actual numbers you need.


73 Karl



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