Dual Boot, Twice?

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/31/2010 08:51 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 have an eeepc 900HA with a 160gb HDD
> --I was aiming for 30gb Ubuntu, 30gb XP and 60gb storage.
>
> fdisk -l
> [sudo] password for me:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x92e4538c
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       10442    83875333+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2           10443       18431    64171642+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3           18432       19452     8201182+  1c  Hidden W95 
> FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sda4           19453       19457       40162+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

     Your problem is shown above. You have zero Ubuntu partitions. I do 
not know what the other things are but they are windoz and I hate that. 
Are you trying to run Ubuntu from within one of the widoz versions?


     Suggest you back up your hard drive and then with a LiveCD that is 
known good look at what is there. If the fdisk is accurate you need to 
make /dev/sda4 an "extended" partition. Then put EFI (FAT-12/16/32) at 
/dev/sda5 and make /dev/sda6 a swap partition of 5GB, and then install 
Ubuntu on /dev/sda7.

73 Karl







>
> Please help
> Kindregards,
> Noel
>
>


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