maimed
February 11th, 2009, 07:37 AM
hey i have a big problem. I recently installed bracktrack 3 on my pc with ubuntu and windows xp, got grub working normal goes to XP and ubuntu fine but it can't find backtrack 3 (yes i did installed in, via an installer i did a real installion to a seperate partition)
I have no idea what to type into grub to get it working and i have no idea what the partition number is.
Here is fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7a695750
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9 72261 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 10 1315 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1316 17730 131853487+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 17731 30401 101779807+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 1316 7750 51689106 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7751 10944 25655773+ 83 Linux
I am pretty sure it is on that sda6 one. sda5 is windows and sda4 is ubuntu. 1 and 2 are recovery etc that came with laptop.
Here is grub menu.lst
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
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/sda2
title Windows XP (loader)
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
So how do i add it in so i can get to backtrack via grub.
Thankyou
I have no idea what to type into grub to get it working and i have no idea what the partition number is.
Here is fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7a695750
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9 72261 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 10 1315 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1316 17730 131853487+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 17731 30401 101779807+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 1316 7750 51689106 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7751 10944 25655773+ 83 Linux
I am pretty sure it is on that sda6 one. sda5 is windows and sda4 is ubuntu. 1 and 2 are recovery etc that came with laptop.
Here is grub menu.lst
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 881c39ab-8a33-45cb-8e12-c8a515056635
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/sda2
title Windows XP (loader)
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
So how do i add it in so i can get to backtrack via grub.
Thankyou