Emachine T6216 dual boot won't boot XP

[n8fau]

Hello all:

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 desktop from CD. The install went great, until my wife tried to boot to XP.

After selecting XP from the GRUB screen it goes straight to a system recovery program. I've tried everything I know to get around it... No luck...

Let me know if you need more info:

Ubuntu 8.10
Emachine T6216

Thanks
Bob

[Mark Phelps]

Open a terminal and type the following "sudo fdisk -lu" (that's a lower-case L, not a one), and post the results here.

[n8fau]

Here are the results:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb334b7c0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 9992430 159782489 74895030 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 63 9992429 4996183+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 159782490 312576704 76397107+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 159782553 310327604 75272526 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 310327668 312576704 1124518+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
bob@missy-desktop:~$

Thanks for the help....

Bob

[n8fau]

If I'm reading it right it looks like it's trying to boot off /dev/sda2. The partition with XP on it is /dev/sda1.

To me it looks like it's pointing to the wrong partition and trying to boot from that...

Looking at my laptop (dual boot) It boots from /dev/sda1 which has my Windows on it....