Re: Eight boot options ??
- From: CptDondo <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:29:21 -0700
PaulFXH wrote:
Hi
I set up my computer to dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu 5.10 yesterday (with
very much help from this NG).
However, instead of the expected two options in the boot table, there
are actually a total of EIGHT (8).
These are:
--Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 (two versions, one of which is Recovery
Mode)
-Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (same two versions)
-Ubuntu memtest86+
and finally, THREE options to boot WinXP.
However, only one of the WinXP options actually boots to Windows. The
other two error out claiming the disk does not exist.
Can anybody help me understand where the two non-functioning WinXP boot
options came from (and how do I get rid of them) and why I have the
option to boot to two different Ubuntu kernels (both of which appear to
be associated with Ubuntu 5.10).
Was this particular version of XP pre-installed by Dell? I ran into something like this on my HP... It has the regular XP partition, then another, smaller, non-bootable XP partition for something or other - perhaps hibernation or system config stuff, who knows - and a third hidden partition that has a complete mirrored install of the original XP, labeled the recovery partition. I guess this is when main XP takes a dump, the recover CD can copy over stuff from this partition. In my case, the hidden partition was identifed as a Windows NT partition.
Presto, 3 Windows partitions, and also 15 GB missing from my harddrive. I wondered why my 60 GB HD was only showing up as having 45 GB under XP; not until I fixed the corrupt (as shipped) XP partition and could get gparted running did I figure out what was going on....
--Yan
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