Dual boot missing hal.dll

[BRRFOC]

Just installed Lucid on dual boot machine, Linux is OK but tried booting to Windows XP from grub2, missing hal.dll (this is apparently a common problem and I found many many posts on this topic).

Boot.ini contents below:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="/fastdetect"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS=""
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\="Unidentified operating system on drive C."

On my machine I have one hard drive, Windows OS is sda1 and XP filesystem is sda5 (so previously I had drive E:\ as my XP shell), note that boot.ini shows C:\="Unidentified operating system on drive C." Both appear to be untouched by Linux install, and files seem to be intact, so I'm guessing the problem is either MBR or grub.cfg, automatically generated contents for this entry below:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod fat
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 07d8-0702
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###


Current grub.cfg shows
set root='(hd0,1)'

Searching for solutions, looks like most appropriate solution is to load the Recovery Console from XP setup disk, delete boot.ini, restart the Recovery Console and run:
C:\
Bootcfg /Rebuild

Any suggestions?

[Rubi1200]

Did you ever have a Wubi install prior to installing Ubuntu to the hard-drive?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Windows%20Missing%20hal.dll

From within Ubuntu, post the results of the boot info script linked at the bottom of my post please.

Thanks.

[BRRFOC]

Thanks for prompt reply, RESULTS.TXT are attached, note that boot partition is sda1 but Windows XP is sda5, not sure if this is part of the problems.

I'm pretty sure I did not use wubi for the install, typically I use live CD although I did perform upgrades on a couple occasions, which may account for multiple partitions listed in boot.ini.

Look forward to any suggestions you may have, I tried Recovery Console and Bootcfg /Rebuild, no luck so far. Looks like boot.ini is located on different partition than XP partition loaded with Recovery Console.

[Mark Phelps]

Text files are REALLY HARD to read!

Please post the results of the script INSIDE your reply, surrounding the text with QUOTES. You do that by pasting the text into your reply, highlighting the text, and then selecting the balloon-like icon on the second menu bar -- fourth item from the right.

[BRRFOC]

Sorry about that, see below. I've tried Recovery Console, Bootcfg /Rebuild, chkdisk, and from Linux dosfsck. Latter reports difference between "original" and "backup" but this is apparently not unusual. Data/files on Windows partitions appear to be intact. I suspect boot.ini may be part of the problem, but I was unable to change attributes (Windows prompted 'run chkdsk' which did not seem to help). Also suspect is partition table.

RESULTS.TXT

" Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #6 for /grub.

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows XP: Fat32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files/dirs:

sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /grub/grub.cfg /grub/core.img

sda7: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Boot files/dirs: /etc/fstab

sda8: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda9: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda10: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda11: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda12: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda13: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 4,209,029 4,208,967 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 4,209,091 232,736,767 228,527,677 f W95 Ext d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4,209,093 82,349,189 78,140,097 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 82,350,080 83,324,927 974,848 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 83,326,976 98,949,119 15,622,144 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 98,951,168 177,074,175 78,123,008 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 177,076,224 180,979,711 3,903,488 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 180,981,760 188,792,831 7,811,072 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 188,794,880 204,417,023 15,622,144 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 204,419,072 227,854,335 23,435,264 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 227,856,384 232,736,767 4,880,384 82 Linux swap / Solaris


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/sda10 44c1fe54-438d-45da-b85c-b830b7f39da6 ext4
/dev/sda1 07D8-0702 vfat OS
/dev/sda11 fce49b51-1bee-4b73-a8f9-43e4c35f44b3 ext4
/dev/sda12 9e8c44a5-54f2-4dbe-925d-b6f6f29f4793 ext4
/dev/sda13 1cb24118-d2ec-44b5-aa96-557f81cc6a55 swap
/dev/sda2: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 023C042E3C041EF3 ntfs
/dev/sda6 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f ext4
/dev/sda7 1c0d249a-2f5a-42c4-959f-dae7527e3429 ext4
/dev/sda8 cd8df926-eef5-47c1-9127-f338638d0942 ext4
/dev/sda9 48ba632d-b387-41a0-81f0-2fefc6df50bc ext4
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/sda7 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda12 /archive ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda6 /boot ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda11 /usr ext4 (rw)
/dev/sda10 /var ext4 (rw)
/dev/sr0 /media/XP_PRO_SP2_ENG iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1020,gid=1020, iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500)
/dev/sda1 /media/OS vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1020,gid=1020, shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
/dev/sda5 /media/023C042E3C041EF3 fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_ permissions)


================================ sda1/boot.ini: ================================

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="/fastdetect"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS=""

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\="Unidentified operating system on drive C."


============================= sda6/grub/grub.cfg: =============================

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,11)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set fce49b51-1bee-4b73-a8f9-43e4c35f44b3
if loadfont /share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f
set locale_dir=($root)/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic-pae root=UUID=1c0d249a-2f5a-42c4-959f-dae7527e3429 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic-pae
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae ...'
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic-pae root=UUID=1c0d249a-2f5a-42c4-959f-dae7527e3429 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic-pae
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f
linux16 /memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,6)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 074c098a-e613-4922-9587-acbf07609d2f
linux16 /memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" {
insmod fat
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 07d8-0702
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

=================== sda6: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


42.3GB: grub/core.img
42.3GB: grub/grub.cfg
42.1GB: initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic-pae
42.1GB: vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic-pae

=============================== sda7/etc/fstab: ===============================

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /archive was on /dev/sda12 during installation
UUID=9e8c44a5-54f2-4dbe-925d-b6f6f29f4793 /archive ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda6 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=fce49b51-1bee-4b73-a8f9-43e4c35f44b3 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=44c1fe54-438d-45da-b85c-b830b7f39da6 /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda13 during installation
UUID=1cb24118-d2ec-44b5-aa96-557f81cc6a55 none swap sw 0 0

=================== sda7: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


42.6GB: initrd.img
42.6GB: vmlinuz:

[Quackers]

Hmm, I'm not sure you've got enough partitions there! :-) :-) :-)

I do notice that a couple of grub boot files are in sda6 (which is where grub is looking for them) but etc/fstab and the Ubuntu operating system is in sda7.
I don't know if that's significant or not. Other than that I wouldn't know where to start! Sorry.

[oldfred]

In your boot.ini they refer to partition 3, but windows is in partition 1 and partition 5?

If you have a lot of partitions it helps to label them. You can use gparted when you create them or disk utility to add labels.

[BRRFOC]

Correct oldfred, this has to do with original Windows install, and somehow I ended up with mapping XP filesystem to E:\ rather than C:\. I like your suggestion about using labels, but I'm not familiar enough with Windows to know whether or not these labels can be placed in boot.ini.

I'm assuming that my boot.ini is incorrect, I tried editing and pointing to partition 5 rather than 3, no luck there. Boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect are in the 1st partion, but the filesystem is in the 5th.

[oldfred]

All your boot files are in sda1 if you look at the boot info script. Windows has to be installed to a primary partition to boot from. Second installs of windows can be in a logical partition but only can boot thru the install in the primary partition.

Lot of detail but pictures pictures explain a lot:
Multibooters, Pictures here worth 1000+ words
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/multiboot.html

The labeling is in a partition and can be used in Linux fstab instead of sda1 or UUID, and labels are listed with the blkid and other commands so it helps to know what is where.

[efflandt]

A corrupt or missing HAL.DLL is a confusing error that may not really mean that it is corrupt or missing, just that it cannot be found on the partition boot.ini is pointing to. I ran into that problem when trying to image a drive with PING (Part Image is not Ghost), which did not know how to handle a Dell recovery partition, so it changed boot.ini to one partition lower before making the image, thinking that you would not reinstall the recovery partition. But it forgot to change boot.ini back to normal afterwards, which resulted in the HAL.DLL error when trying to boot the existing system.

I am not certain of a correct boot.ini entry for booting a logical partition, especially when for some reason the boot sector of sda5 thinks it starts at sector 63 (when it does not).

[oldfred]

I think efflandt has it with the boot sector issue. Was sda5 a copy from sda1? The boot sector has to have correct windows code. I am not sure windows even repairs boot sectors in logical partitions, but testdisk may rebuild it.

If the partition was copied then the backup boot sector is also wrong but testdisk has a rebuild bootsector function.

enable the "universe" repository to download testdisk
System>Administration>Software Sources>Ubuntu Software.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

As described, it has an option to "Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup"
Instructions
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Menu_Analyse