Dual Boot, Twice?

[NoOp]

On 05/31/2010 07:51 AM, nlfirkin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I loved Ubuntu 9.10 so much I tried to upgrade to 10.04 LTS.
> After the upgrade finished it booted once then I couldn't boot into Ubuntu. It 
> didn't show up in the boot menu.
> I tried installing again from the live cd but it added another boot loader.
> I tried to update grub with no change.
> I've tried make a USB boot recovery and can't figure that out.
> Some where in all this I followed some instructions about get grub4Dos.
> 
> Now I am lost.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --The First Boot Menu is--
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition --(selecting this works)--
> grub4Dos --(selecting this does nothing)--
> Ubuntu --(selecting this takes me to the second Boot Menu)--
> 
> --The Second Boot Menu is--
> GNU GRUB version 1.98-1Ubuntu5
> 
> Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-21-generic --(selecting this works)--
> Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode) --(selecting this works)--
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda1) --(selecting this works)--
> Windows NT/2000/XP (on /dev/sda3)--(selecting this works)--

I think what is happening is that you are getting a 'chainload' issue.
Have a look at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
[Upgrading to GRUB 2]

Do you see a 'Chainload' option in the second menu?

Boot into 'Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-21-generic' and provide the output from:

$ grub-install -v