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reedk
December 5th, 2009, 07:32 PM
I'm not new to Linux or Ubuntu, but Karmic with this "beta4" tagged GRUB has my head spinning.

I had a working dual-boot system with XP and 9.04. For a few reasons, I did a fresh install of 9.10 on /dev/sda. The new boot menu did not add my XP partition on /dev/sdb. After some research I've tried adding both of these to /etc/grub.d/40_custom:

First try, which never got to a Windows boot screen:

#menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP" {
# set root=(hd1,1)
# chainloader +1
#}

Second try, which reboots the PC when selected (the UUID is correct for my machine):


menuentry "Windows XP" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd1,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 78F42836F427F552
chainloader +1
}

Here is fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 60.5 GB, 60481863680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7353 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x83279e15

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 7173 47849602+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 7174 7353 1445850 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 74.4 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x486def14

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 2551 9039 52122892+ 83 Linux

And my blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="8091bdf2-6f42-4b5c-b126-92a5c261b213" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="1d6fcf09-556a-4405-825d-6b0870623447" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: UUID="88fa0ebe-cbad-48ee-9dd7-5ea731b9748d" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="78F42836F427F552" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="57e06483-591e-47e6-960a-753cde3bf561" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"


Any thoughts on what I need to do to restore a functional Windows boot to this machine?

phillw
December 5th, 2009, 07:34 PM
Head over here --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708

Have you up and running in no time :-)

If you're on 9.10 - you're on grub2

Regards,

Phill.

darkod
December 5th, 2009, 07:35 PM
It's a long shot but did you check device.map to make sure hd1 is the one you think it is? Although that doesn't explain why an entry was not created automatically.

reedk
December 5th, 2009, 10:32 PM
Thanks for the help Phil, but the bootloader restore doc doesn't help, becuase I have a working 9.10/grub2 bootloader that gets me into karmic just fine. My problem is that I can't sucessfully boot into the Windows partition.
I did check the device map and it confirms that the devices are named the way I think they are:

$more device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
I noticed that running update-grub gives this message about /dev/sdb (My windows drive)

ERROR: isw device for volume "REYES" broken on /dev/sdb in RAID set "isw_eabdghgdbd_REYES"
ERROR: isw: wrong # of devices in RAID set "isw_eabdghgdbd_REYES" [1/2] on /dev/sdb

This is odd because I've _never_ had RAID set up on this drive and the REYES naming is not something of my creation. Alas, Google is not helping me here :(

darkod
December 5th, 2009, 10:38 PM
But
sudo apt-get remove dmraid

should help you. :) Execute that and it will remove any raid leftovers from the system. I know, seems confusing but it seems some drives can sometimes come with raid leftovers that you know nothing about.

reedk
December 7th, 2009, 02:25 AM
Darko, you nailed it. removing dmraid allowed GRUB to auto-add a Windows entry. That drive must have lived in my storage server at one time. I'll move this to solved and scan the forums to see if I can help anyone else with the same problem.
Thanks again all for the responses.