marineBoy
October 12th, 2012, 12:48 PM
Hi,
I upgraded to 12.04 Kubuntu (clean install) a couple of months ago and today needed to boot into my XP install to record some screencasts for work, but the entry (or menu) wasn't there.
I fixed the display of the menu but still no entry for XP.
The XP partition wasn't being mounted by default so I modified the fstab settings to fix that.
I've tried creating a custom entry in /etc/grub.d/40_custom with:
#menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
insmod search_fs_uuid
insmod ntldr
set root '(hd0,1)'
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7
ntldr /ntldr
}
and
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP 2" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root '(hd0,1)'
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7
chainloader +1
}
and ran:
sudo grub-mkconfig
sudo update-grub2
but with no success.
There's two disks: sda with win xp, and sdb with 12.04.
My output from the boot info script is:
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and uses an
embedded config file:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
search.fs_uuid f0926f11-4b43-49b6-a3e5-afac9aca9268 root
set prefix=($root)/grub
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----.
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos2)/boot/grub on this drive.
sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sdb1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb5 starts
at sector 7998. But according to the info from fdisk,
sdb5 starts at sector 1855868928.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb6: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb7: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb8: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb2: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders, total 156250000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 155,171,834 155,171,772 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
Drive: sdb __________________________________________________ ___________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 30,275,582 1,953,523,711 1,923,248,130 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1,855,868,928 1,953,523,711 97,654,784 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sdb6 47,364,096 1,855,860,735 1,808,496,640 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 30,275,584 38,086,655 7,811,072 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 38,088,704 47,357,951 9,269,248 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 2,048 30,273,535 30,271,488 83 Linux
"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7 ntfs
/dev/sdb2 d4cc4d13-a68e-4e46-827c-8f935c849a5b ext4
/dev/sdb5 665023215022F787 ntfs
/dev/sdb6 96ed2045-5297-4f9c-9774-9fd6c363bc2b ext4
/dev/sdb7 dda0489b-322f-48ba-af3a-5ec0d495de58 swap
/dev/sdb8 37ee0ab5-1453-44a7-b6ed-9cb652b605b2 ext4
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Windows fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb2 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb6 /home ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdb8 /var ext4 (rw)
From the output it appears I might have grub installed to two locations.
How do I fix this? I'm a little reluctant to bork the system further :)
And just to make life interesting, I don't have an XP disk, but I do have an XP to copy files off if necessary (I seem to recall you can copy boot sectors with a dd command?)
Regards,
Duncan
I upgraded to 12.04 Kubuntu (clean install) a couple of months ago and today needed to boot into my XP install to record some screencasts for work, but the entry (or menu) wasn't there.
I fixed the display of the menu but still no entry for XP.
The XP partition wasn't being mounted by default so I modified the fstab settings to fix that.
I've tried creating a custom entry in /etc/grub.d/40_custom with:
#menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
insmod search_fs_uuid
insmod ntldr
set root '(hd0,1)'
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7
ntldr /ntldr
}
and
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP 2" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root '(hd0,1)'
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7
chainloader +1
}
and ran:
sudo grub-mkconfig
sudo update-grub2
but with no success.
There's two disks: sda with win xp, and sdb with 12.04.
My output from the boot info script is:
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and uses an
embedded config file:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
search.fs_uuid f0926f11-4b43-49b6-a3e5-afac9aca9268 root
set prefix=($root)/grub
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----.
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos2)/boot/grub on this drive.
sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sdb1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb5: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdb5 starts
at sector 7998. But according to the info from fdisk,
sdb5 starts at sector 1855868928.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb6: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb7: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sdb8: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb2: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders, total 156250000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 155,171,834 155,171,772 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
Drive: sdb __________________________________________________ ___________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 30,275,582 1,953,523,711 1,923,248,130 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1,855,868,928 1,953,523,711 97,654,784 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sdb6 47,364,096 1,855,860,735 1,808,496,640 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 30,275,584 38,086,655 7,811,072 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 38,088,704 47,357,951 9,269,248 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 2,048 30,273,535 30,271,488 83 Linux
"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 BE4C3C2F4C3BE0B7 ntfs
/dev/sdb2 d4cc4d13-a68e-4e46-827c-8f935c849a5b ext4
/dev/sdb5 665023215022F787 ntfs
/dev/sdb6 96ed2045-5297-4f9c-9774-9fd6c363bc2b ext4
/dev/sdb7 dda0489b-322f-48ba-af3a-5ec0d495de58 swap
/dev/sdb8 37ee0ab5-1453-44a7-b6ed-9cb652b605b2 ext4
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Windows fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb2 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb6 /home ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdb8 /var ext4 (rw)
From the output it appears I might have grub installed to two locations.
How do I fix this? I'm a little reluctant to bork the system further :)
And just to make life interesting, I don't have an XP disk, but I do have an XP to copy files off if necessary (I seem to recall you can copy boot sectors with a dd command?)
Regards,
Duncan