Grub and Vista

[Ant2ne]

What should I put in here?

title Vista
root (hd0,0)
kernel ??
quiet splash ??
initrd ??
quiet ??
savedefault ??

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=d077e9d2-06d3-4105-a557-079179b178bf ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=d077e9d2-06d3-4105-a557-079179b178bf ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

Vista is installed on the first partition {C:\ or (hd0,0)} And I installed it before kubuntu, so I guess Vista doesn't get spotted like XP did.

[jayhawk]

Re: Grub and Vista

title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


That should be all that you would need for Vista.

[Ant2ne]

Re: Grub and Vista

When I try to boot from the vista menu (above)

A kernel file is missing from the disk insert a system diskette annnd restart the system.

[dsmturbo]

Re: Grub and Vista

try this:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[Ant2ne]

Re: Grub and Vista

so it should look like this?

title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[poohbear]

Re: Grub and Vista

Can't say off the top of my head but check this site out.
It is very thorough about grub info and entries.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzo...system_Entries

Lots of info there, Have not read it all myself.

[Ant2ne]

Re: Grub and Vista

My current grub entry

title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

My current error message when selecting vista to boot into

A kernel file is missing from the disk. Insert a system diskette and restart the system.

What sucks is... that before the wife dumped coffee into my keyboard and fried out my hard drive, I had kubuntu and vista working great together.

[askrieger]

Re: Grub and Vista

I think that you're going to have to get in contact with Dell. Don't despair, though. If you have gold service, many of the people who answer the phone have actually TRIED Linux and some USE it. When Dell shipped your computer the first two partitions on the original hard drive contained a collection of diagnostic routines and a compressed replacement for your OS and it's device drivers. My recollection of the process when Dell replaced the dead HD in wife's desktop (53 days before the 3 yr. warranty ran out) was that I had to restore all that stuff manually by downloading it from Dell. That may be the source of your problem.

[Ant2ne]

Re: Grub and Vista

I think that you're going to have to get in contact with Dell. Don't despair, though. If you have gold service, many of the people who answer the phone have actually TRIED Linux and some USE it. When Dell shipped your computer the first two partitions on the original hard drive contained a collection of diagnostic routines and a compressed replacement for your OS and it's device drivers. My recollection of the process when Dell replaced the dead HD in wife's desktop (53 days before the 3 yr. warranty ran out) was that I had to restore all that stuff manually by downloading it from Dell. That may be the source of your problem.

Nope... I completely formated and destroyed all partitions with BOTH hard drives. I put Vista on partition 1 and kubuntu on 2 with both drives. The dell diagnostics crap was installed on partition 1 when I got the computer, and when I got the replacement drive. This replacement drive was an image also, so it had all that stuff too. No, I'm pretty sure that my problem is in GRUB not loading vista correctly.

UPDATE:
I give myself the stupid user award. I've been messing with this grub file tryin to figure out what is up for awhile now. On a whim I tried to access sda1 (my Vista partition) via konk and it opened a blank directory. I was like.. "WTF?!" As it turns out. I must have formated the vista partition while installing kubunut, as I installed kubunut second. No wonder grub couldn't find a kernel. So I reinstalled Vista, and then reinstalled GRUB, cause Vista can't leave stuff alone. And then the above grub settings booted it right up.

[monte48lowes]

Re: Grub and Vista

"stupid user award" I don't know if we need an award for that. I for one, would not have enough room in my house to store all of the trophies.

Glad you figured it out.

Mike

[Qqmike]

Re: Grub and Vista

You know, Ant2ne, there’s a rule about computers: If it ain’t broken, don’t try to fix it.
Having said that, if you feel up to a risky adventure, the following menu.lst entry for Vista would be enough, and makeactive is probably optional:

Title Vista Whatever
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

And as for The Stupid User Award, I think we'd all have so many "stupid mistakes/oversights," that the number would be essentially countably infinite for each of us, and we'd all be tied.

Mike