Help setting up my dual boot correctly (2 HD's)

[grimdeath]

Hi, first post here!

just to let you know ive searched over MANY post trying to get an idea of what ive done wrong with my boot loaders. I think it has to do with the way i installed not the order:

my two drives are:
Master = 80gb w/kubuntu
Slave = 120gb w/WinXPpro(which i installed first)

when installing kubuntu i didnt see any options directly for grub to setup my boot choices or anything like that, but grub is installed and works, only catch is windows doesnt show up, i see the following:
linux amd64 default
linux amd64 recorvery
linux amd64
linux memtest+86

i tried editing my menu.lst file for grub to look like this:

...(deleted comments)...

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic Default
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic Default (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 single
initrd /boot/initrd.img
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-amd64-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-amd64-generic
savedefault
boot

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

title windowsXP
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
savedefault

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

did i set that correctly for windows xp(entered manually with gedit) because i know for sure that windows is hard drive 2, and the only partition on the drive...here what fdisk - l says:
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 9356 75152038+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9357 9729 2996122+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9357 9729 2996091 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 14592 117210208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

please dont point me towards other topics just tell me if i did something overall wrong or if i just need to change a couple things!!

THANKS SOOOO MUCH if you can help me get this working!!

btw, just on the side, is there a 32bit version of kubunta that will work with my amd64 system? seeing as ive found that flash and java and a few things like that dont seem to work with the i86_64 version

again THANKS!

[bjweeks]

You boot config looks to me, but I'm not an expert. Yes, you can use the 32 bit version on an AMD 64.

[grimdeath]

ok thanks for the responce, i just noticed im getting this message when it "tries" to boot:

title windowsXP
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 <--this part!!
makeactive
chainloader +1
savedefault
boot (yes i just added this)

not sure why i got the amd64 version, guess it just seemed right at the time :P whats the best app to use to burn an iso(such as kubuntu or ubuntu 32bit) to a disc!! i just used nero on windows

[bjweeks]

Gnome Baker is my favorite.

[grimdeath]

hmm "gnome" baker will that work with my KDE kubuntu?

[Kemotaha]

To get windows to runn off a seperate hard drive you have to trick it to think that it is the "primary hard drive". It is fairly easy to do, I am doing it on my system. I have ubuntu64 on one and winxp64 on the other. I will deal with the problems that 64 causes (a lot less in linux then in windows). Here is the section of windows in my menu.lst file:


title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


If you need any other help. Let me know.