[SOLVED] lost vista grub entry

[dirty_ol_rza]

I had Vista/Ubuntu dual boot working but after Ubuntu wireless issues I re-installed Ubuntu and have lost my grub menu and go straight into Ubuntu.

I don't have Vista in my menu.lst just Ubuntu.
I was hoping someone could recommend what to add in.

Here's my fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 118.5 GB, 118526284800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14410 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 11948 11978 249007+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 11979 14410 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 1 11947 95964246 7 HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[caljohnsmith]

Try adding:

title Windows Vista
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

If it seems like you've lost your Grub menu on start up, find the line near the beginning in your menu.lst that has "hiddenmenu" and instead put a # in front of it:

#hiddenmenu

[dirty_ol_rza]

Thanks for that!

It worked perfectly. yet again the forum has come to the rescue.


Many thanks

[caljohnsmith]

You're welcome; I'm glad you can boot all your OSes now. If it's not too much trouble, please click the "thread tools" link near the top of this thread and choose the "marked as solved".