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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    Strange that Windows does not even show up in my /boot/grub/menu.lst, yet I can access my windows drive/files from Ubuntu. Was not sure where to enter the maping info, so I placed it at the bottom of my menu.lst:
    ## ## End Default Options ##

    title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=558e6dec-88fe-42ad-8959-638453e8c803 ro quiet splash
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
    quiet

    title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=558e6dec-88fe-42ad-8959-638453e8c803 ro single
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

    title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
    quiet

    ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

    Windows
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    makeactive
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloder +1
    boot
    At any rate, it did not work. Maybe I placed it incorrectly?
    Thanks!

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    I searched around a bit, and found this:
    # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
    # on /dev/hda1
    title Microsoft Windows XP Home
    map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
    map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    savedefault
    makeactive
    chainloader +1
    Windows now appears in the grub options at boot up, but I get this error:
    NTLDR is missing

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    "bump"

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    Wink Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    Quote Originally Posted by randell6564 View Post
    I searched around a bit, and found this:

    Windows now appears in the grub options at boot up, but I get this error:
    Can you please post: sfdisk -lu, I would bet you have a recovery partition and you need rootnoverify (hd1,1).

    Please check:
    How to boot Windows from my second hard disk without problems Howto

    adrian15

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    I do not know if this link will help :

    http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    Quote Originally Posted by adrian15 View Post
    Can you please post: sfdisk -lu, I would bet you have a recovery partition and you need rootnoverify (hd1,1).

    Please check:
    How to boot Windows from my second hard disk without problems Howto

    adrian15
    bigboss@Bigboss:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
    [sudo] password for bigboss:

    Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders, total 240121728 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x3b6f3b6e

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 * 63 234067049 117033493+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda2 234067050 240107489 3020220 5 Extended
    /dev/hda5 234067113 240107489 3020188+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

    Disk /dev/hdb: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders, total 39876480 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x3ba93ba8

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdb1 * 63 39857264 19928601 7 HPFS/NTFS
    bigboss@Bigboss:~$

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    Quote Originally Posted by bodhi.zazen View Post
    I do not know if this link will help :

    http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
    Thanks bodhi.zazen, I will look into it.

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    You might have to reinstall Windows again, but physically unplug the drive you installed Ubuntu to until you're done installing (or disable it in the bios if you have an option to, but I'd rather not take any chances). I think what happened is Windows did it's usual trick of spewing files on both drives even though that's not what you wanted, so ntldr ended up on the 120 GB drive, and was subsequently wiped out by the Ubuntu install.

    I've learned the hard way about ******* installations, and always unplug any drives I don't want touched when I have to reinstall now. I've ended up wasting so many hours of my life because XP decided to make a completely unrelated drive house system files that it's not even remotely funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randell6564 View Post
    Disk /dev/hdb: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders, total 39876480 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x3ba93ba8

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdb1 * 63 39857264 19928601 7 HPFS/NTFS
    bigboss@Bigboss:~$
    If the map trick has not worked this means that your Windows is installed ok (in the second disk... which was before the first hard disk) you need to read that ntldr is missing howto and probably you will need to edit your boot.ini to reflect your "new" Windows partition.

    adrian15

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    Re: Question concerning Dual-Booting Windows and Ubuntu 7.10

    Quote Originally Posted by adrian15 View Post
    If the map trick has not worked this means that your Windows is installed ok (in the second disk... which was before the first hard disk) you need to read that ntldr is missing howto and probably you will need to edit your boot.ini to reflect your "new" Windows partition.

    adrian15
    Thank you adrian15.
    My second disk was never the first disk. It has always been the slave drive.
    Windows has always been on my 120g primary IDE, and Ubuntu took the backseat (being my 20g secondary IDE). I wanted to finally switch things around so that Ubuntu could have 120g. What I did was wipe both drives, install Windows first to second/slave drive, then installed Ubuntu to primary hoping that grub would stick itself in the right place for a dual boot option. But like
    Nameless Neko said, Windows not liking to be in the backseat, it "spewed" it's files all over the place, including onto the other drive!

    This is not a huge problem for me. I can very easily crack open my box, adjust the straps, and jumper settings on the drives, reinstall Windows on the new master (20g IDE.) Of course, I will then need to use my supergrub disk again to rewrite the MBR because Windows will screw that up and not give me access to Ubuntu!

    I would not have attempted to install this way if I had known that Windows does not like to ride in the backseat. Guess I should have done my homework first.
    Thanks so much to all of you! Don't change the channel, because I just might be back with some more questions if things don't go as planned.

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