Dual Boot problems.

[Warpster Buntu]

I've been using Ubuntu for a couple weeks now, and everything has been working fine. However, I have reason to switch to Windows. When I installed Ubuntu, I did so as a dual boot to Windows, and at the restart it always asked me whether or not to boot either one.

However, now it goes straight to Ubuntu, and when I try looking around, I still can't find Windows. Is it buried somewhere in the laptop, or has some ill-fate overtaken the laptop?

Will I be forced to reinstall Windows?

[cdtech]

Can we see your "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file. It may just need tweaked a bit to find the correct drive.....

[jualin]

Using the terminal post the output of

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

[jualin]

If it needs tweaking you can install a program called "startupmanager" which edits the "menu.lst" file for you using the Graphic User Interface. You can install it via Synaptic or via terminal

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

Hope this works

[Warpster Buntu]

Well, I typed it into the terminal and it replied that there was no such file or directory...

Did I type something wrong?

[jualin]

Probably you thought that the "lst" part was "1st". The command has an l (lower case L) not a 1 (one)

[kansasnoob]

If it needs tweaking you can install a program called "startupmanager" which edits the "menu.lst" file for you using the Graphic User Interface. You can install it via Synaptic or via terminal Hope this works

+1

Then you find it by going to System > Administration > Startup-Manager and see this:

Screenshot-StartUp-Manager.png

Note: I clicked the "toggle" to the right of "default operating system" to expand the operating system menu.

If Windows is in the list be sure and (tick) Show Bootloader Menu and Show Boot Splash.

[Warpster Buntu]

Alright. I did the start up manager, and all it shows is Ubuntu.

Did XP just mysteriously disappear?

[Warpster Buntu]

Bump

[cdtech]

Within Ubuntu can you see the windows partition under places? Or do you have it mounted?

If not do "fdisk -l" to list the partitions and see if we can even mount it.

Still need to see the "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" copy and paste.