Re: Grub set up

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 6:58 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 06:12 -0400, Richard E. Barmann wrote:
What I am attempting to do is set up my dual boot with linux (dapper Dan)
and windowsXP again. When I upgraded I messed it up by doing the
reinstall. Any help would be appreciate

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 3:13 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
sudo fdisk -l

root@***-desktop:~# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 5629 45214911 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 9637 9728 733320 82 Linux swap /
Solaris Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 5630 9543 31439205 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 9544 9636 747022+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9544 9636 746991 82 Linux swap /
Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2651 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 2552 19293088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 2553 2650 740880 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 2553 2650 740848+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
root@***-desktop:~#

You have an odd disk and partition order there, but no matter, Linux and
grub can handle that. And the disks are all full so the partition order
on hda doesn't really matter much more.

I assume your Linux / is on hda1 and hda3 is some other partition -
maybe /home? If not, then change the numbers as appropriate below.
Your /boot/grub/menu.lst file probably needs to look something like
this:

title Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-<insert rest of kernel file name here>
initrd /boot/initrd.img-<insert rest of file name here>

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

Try that, let me know how it goes. If you can't get to the file to edit
it, you can enter these lines directly into the grub boot screen. Do you
know how to do that?

alan
This is what I have after changing the last command. With this I get no
action, (not even press any key to continue).
----
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-25-386makeactive
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-25-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-25-386
savedefault
boot
makeactivemakeactive
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-25-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-25-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-25-386
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-23-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-23-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-23-386
boot

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu itemmakeactives below from the
Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (on /dev/hda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode) (on /dev/hda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/hda3.
title Ubuntu, memtest86+ (on /dev/hda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
savedefault
boot

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
-----
Do I need map? to fool windows.? I hope you can help me get this correct.


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