booting into windows xp messes up grub.

[maindoor]

Tried dual boot between win-xp and 9.10 kubuntu. When I boot into linux
works all the time. When I boot to windows and then reboot, gets stuck
at grub. Any ideas why this would happen ?

-Sanjeev.

[Qqmike]

Re: booting into windows xp messes up grub.

Doesn't make sense. Unless ... Do you have TWO hard drives (XP on one, Kubuntu on the other)? -> If so, that is a known issue: "GRUB Loading." may appear after POST upon reboot, and it takes up to 4 minutes to succeed booting (70 seconds for me; others report more or less). -> If so, wait for it to succeed.

[maindoor]

Re: booting into windows xp messes up grub.

very accurate that's what i see "GRUB Loading."
except that i just have one hdd. to just use it, i went
to old grub instead of grub-pc (grub2).

[Qqmike]

Re: booting into windows xp messes up grub.

Not a bad idea to use GRUB Legacy for now. Maybe you should file a bug report on this issue (to see if others have encountered it)?

[zanetu]

Re: booting into windows xp messes up grub.

Same problem (xp, kubuntu 9.10, one hard drive, "grub loading...", etc). I reverted from grub-pc to grub with the help of the following post.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

[zanetu]

Re: booting into windows xp messes up grub.

I think I've found the solution.
The crucial point is that you have to make stage1 go directly to stage2 (skipping stage1.5).
The steps I take:

sudo rm /boot/grub/*stage1_5
sudo grub
root (hd0, 7)  # replace "0" and "7" with values specific to your own environment
setup (hd0)

References:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15048
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rub/+bug/26058
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476940