Grub Configuration

[Guest]

Hey All,

Sorry to introduce myself with a problem but I could really use your help.

I installed Kubuntu and subsequently XP. Which of course screwed up Grub, which I have restored using the Kubuntu DVD.

My problem starts though trying to build an entry in Grub to boot XP. I think the biggest issue I am having is finding the right partition to boot because XP is not the first partition on the drive.

Here is what is displayed when I run

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 35874 288157873+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 35875 38913 24410767+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 36483 38913 19526976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 35875 36482 4883697 82 Linux swap / Solaris

And here's the entry from menu.lst in /boot/grub/

title Windows XP
root (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I believe XP's partition to be the 3rd one on the drive but looking at the Linux entries in the menu.lst they look like this;

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic
uuid 287827f1-9b9d-4afb-9f97-98308d0f25f8
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic root=UUID=287827f1-9b9d-4afb-9f97-98308d0f25f8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic
quiet

I am not very familiar with Grub configuration so any/all help is much appreciated..

Cheers,
Pix

[Detonate]

Re: Grub Configuration

I grub, you need to know that partitions begin with 0 being the first, 1 being the second, etc. So to Grub, your windows partition is located on (hd0,2) not on (hd0,3).

[Guest]

Re: Grub Configuration

Duuuh cheers Detonate been puzzling me for a little while now..