[SOLVED] Another GRUB problem after installing XP

[bmwman]

I've had my HTPC running Ubuntu for a while now. I have it connected to my 50" TV and I wanted to play some of my favorite PC games. I tried making them run with WINE and some work but some don't. So finally I decided to install XP just so I can play games. I was aware that it would overwrite GRUB and there is a way to fix it. After the XP install completed, I used the Super Grub from within windows and I got the Grub back on. So i'mm back to Ubuntu but XP is not listed. I tried adding it manually to the grub menu.lst but i keep getting error 22 when try to launch it.

here is my sudo fdisk -l output:


Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdfee0c03

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 1238 60801 478447830 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 1 1 0 0 Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0cded2a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 365 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 366 30105 238886550 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 * 30106 36481 51215220 7 HPFS/NTFS

And here is what I added in /boot/grub/menu.lst


title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,2)
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
boot

So XP is installed on sdb3 which should be hd1,2 but it doesn;t work.

So what is wrong?

[bmwman]

I tried changing this line
rootnoverify (hd1,2). I tried (hd0,2) and then it seems like windows is trying to load but it just get messagin "Starting up" and sits there. It never loads anything. If I change it back to (hd1,2) which I think it should be the right on, Grub error 22, partition doesn't exist or something like that.

Little help pls?

[caljohnsmith]

Try this and let me know what happens:

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1

[bmwman]

That worked!!! You are the man.

Thank you.

[caljohnsmith]

No problem, glad it worked. Cheers and have fun. :)