Re: vista with xubuntu+dual boot

Donny George wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Donny George <donny008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Its been some time since i have been using Ubuntu. But today when i tried
for a dual booting system with Vista which was installed first and then
Xubuntu. After installing xubuntu i cant see vista anymore though the

Grub

at startup shows just the Ubuntu options. (the ntfs partitions were

detected

during the scanning of the disks)

Could someone tell me what went wrong, is there a way to put grub so that

i

regain my vista

When you installed Ubuntu, it should have identified the other
partitions on your machine and added entries for those partitions in
to your grub menu. If it didn't then that would indicate that at the
time of installation it could not read those other partitions. Are
those other partition in a RAID configuration per chance?

Your first step should be to post your grub menu.lst file so we can
see what you have and have not got in there. At the same time, I would
fire up a partition editor (gparted for example) and take note of what
disks and partitions you actaully have on this machine. When you're
posting the grub menu.lst file, tell us what gparted tells you - what
partitions it found, on what drives and what format/state they are in.

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hello steve

during the installation of the xubuntu the partioner had detected my ntfs
files. and even the gparted does detect my ntfs partitions though its shows
an red exclamation mark on the primary vista partition.

the grub/menu.lst has only options for ubuntu and ubuntu recovery mode and
ubunu memtest86

the partition is as follows

sda1 ntfs 35 gb
sda2 ntfs 15 gb
sda5 swap 1 gb
sda6 exts 18 gb

i happened to come across a post which modifies the grub/menu.lst to get the
grub with vista option

if so in this case how could in wat way cud i edit

thanks for ur help

don


As a root login look at your /boot/grub/menu.lst file with gedit.
You get a root gedit by calling it from a terminal with sudo gedit.

Above the active items are a bunch of examples. Use the example for
windows and just copy it from above and put it below your Ubuntu list.
Make sure all the # are removed and the title is changed to one you
like, and then save the file.

Reboot and you will see windows on grub and it will work


Karl


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