i dual booted but grub menu doesnt give windows xp?

[dinbrca]

title.. grub doesnt show windows xp in dual boot menu

[fooman]

please post the output of:

sudo fdisk -l

[dinbrca]

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04d304d2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda2   *           1       38912   312560608+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            9139       35246   209712478+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6           35247       38912    29447113+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7               1        9138    73400890+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[logos34]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:F...into_GRUB_menu

except for root use (hd0,1) or (hd0,5).

but it may not work

are you sure sda6 is windows system partition (c:\) ? If so, how did it end up on logical partition?

[dinbrca]

I dont realy know how to check the number of the windows hd i mean like what is the hd(x, x) of windows.. (i am new to linux).. how do i check this?

[logos34]

grub starts counting from 0

linux designation - grub designation

sda2 --> hd0,1 (i.e. first drive, second partition) this is the extended partition containing the others, with boot flag (*)
sda5 --> hd0,4 (first drive, fifth partiiton)
sda6 --> hd0,5 ( " " sixth " ) windows/NTFS
sda7 --> hd0,6 ubuntu root

[dinbrca]

so what i need to add in GRUB configuration is:
title Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

let me understand: title means the title it get in the grub menu, root.. means the HardDrive that the operation system is there (where to boot from)
and the others i dont realy understand can you tell me what they are for? i assume that the "savedefault" means that this will be the default boot command.. (windows will boot by default) am i correct?

[logos34]

sorry for the delayed response...I was troubleshooting my k3b app

yes to all the above...savedefault means grub will boot the last used OS if the 'default' line near top is set to 'saved'

more here

try hd0,1 or hd0,5

*if hd0,5 gives error, take out line 'makeactive'

[dinbrca]

when i try hd0,1 or hd0,5 it tells me error 12: Invalid device requested.
what should i do?

[logos34]

give me some more details...like in what order ubuntu and windows were installed (or rather in the case of windows, copied), why on a logical partition, etc. Can you mount windows in ubuntu and access files there?