Everything was working fine until I tried to remove some of the old kernels from the grub bootloader using qgrubeditor. Luckly qgrubeditor makes a backup of the old menu.lst file. Before I figured out how to rename the old file to the current file, i tried to reinstall grub using the livecd and procedure on the standard ubuntu help. I was able to boot back into ubuntu but I cant boot into windows xp. When I select it on grub says "loading stage2" and then it just reloads the grub menu.
I currently have ubuntu and xp mce installed on 1 harddrive. I dont know how much this matters but I think it might be adding to the problem, I put xp to hibernate before I booted into ubuntu and had this problem. This way I cant see the harddrive in ubuntu (gives the error that the system drive was in hibernation) and might make it harder to fix the xp boot problem.
here is the output of sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 7 12078 96968340 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 12079 13968 15181425 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 13969 14593 5020312+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda5 13708 13968 2096451 dd Unknown
/dev/sda6 * 12079 13632 12482442 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 13633 13707 602406 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
sda2 is Xp mce ,sda3 is dell backup, sda4 is embedded xp(MediaDirect)
Here is the output of this , cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
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# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10
## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu
# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue
## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret
#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#
#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro
## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0
## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,5)
## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true
## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false
## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all
## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false
## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=5b392208-6db5-4960-8255-f4b4e326dd37 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Dell Utility Partition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows XP Media Center Edition
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda5
title Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
root (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Here is another command, cat /boot/grub/default
, that didnt really display anything.
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#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
# WARNING: If you want to edit this file directly, do not remove any line
# from this file, including this warning. Using `grub-set-default\' is
# strongly recommended.
If there are any ideas of how to fix this let me know. I tried using supergrub disk but I dont really know how to use it, nor did I see anything that would help. Thanks in advance.
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