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ragwing
May 12th, 2010, 02:23 PM
On an upgrade from 9.1 to 10.04 I answered the question incorrectly about replacing the menu.lst. Now my windows XP partition does not work. I edited the menu.list and add the section for windows example, but then I only get a dell hardware test procedure. Can someone tell me what I should do to correct my problem.
Thanks
Rex
dino99
May 12th, 2010, 02:27 PM
a mini howto: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9216264&postcount=14

grub2 is used with lucid, and menu.lst have to be removed, then:

sudo grub-mkconfig
sudo update-grub

hope you have not installed grub over the windoz bootloader :confused:
kansasnoob
May 12th, 2010, 02:53 PM
On an upgrade from 9.1 to 10.04 I answered the question incorrectly about replacing the menu.lst. Now my windows XP partition does not work. I edited the menu.list and add the section for windows example, but then I only get a dell hardware test procedure. Can someone tell me what I should do to correct my problem.
Thanks
Rex

It would probably be best if we could see the output of the Boot Info Script as described here:

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
ragwing
May 12th, 2010, 04:27 PM
It would probably be best if we could see the output of the Boot Info Script as described here:

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

Here is the results from the bootinfoscript

156627


Thanks
Rex
kansasnoob
May 12th, 2010, 08:52 PM
Sorry to take so long, I'm just now looking at this. I'll be back ASAP.
kansasnoob
May 12th, 2010, 09:01 PM
XP is on sda2:


sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM

In legacy grub sda2 = (hd0,1) but your entry says:


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

Should edit to this:


# This entry added for a non-linux OS on /dev/sda2
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1