Grub install issues

[bartron]

I have 3 hard drives sda is a 40G IDE drive with win XP, sdb is a 80G IDE drive formated NTFS for windows data, sdc is a 500G SATA with latest KUBUNTU installed when I install Grub to hd0 I can boot to KUBUNTU but not my Windows XP, If I install grub to two hd2 I can boot to windows but when I boot from to KUBUNTU I get an error say the partion does not exit. I can boot from a live CD and see the partions I tryed to restore grub boot still can not get it to boot can some oine help staighten out grub I have tried about 10 different configs and still can not get it to work

Bartron

[dibl]

Re: Grub install issues

Your situation is surely one that Qqmike covered in his excellent instruction here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0

Probably you're looking for "chainloader" instructions, and you should put Grub back to hd0,0 where it naturally "wants" to be.

[Qqmike]

Re: Grub install issues

It sounds like you are doing the right things.
Windows XP is on hd0, and that’s the first drive in BIOS boot order – from the way you describe things. So that’s OK. (Are you sure the XP drive is seen as (hd0)? See the How-to: the geometry command at the GRUB prompt will help sort out our drives.)

If you can boot Kubuntu but not Windows, sounds like you might try editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst located in Kubuntu (use Konqueror to find and see it). Make sure the menu.lst has a boot stanza entry for XP, like:

title Microsoft Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0, 0) # rootnoverify ensures no attempt is made to mount windows
makeactive
chainloader +1

(You do have a mixture of IDE and SATA drives, and sometimes that makes it difficult to get these things fixed.)

See the How-to for editing menu.lst (as root; and save your edits).