(I'm a bit of a noob).
I performed an update last night on Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit (I started in Ubuntu 9.04, updated in about November to 9.10). Everything seemed to go well with the update last night.
Tonight I wanted to boot into Windows Vista. I got the following message when I chose the option for other OSes: "Error 11: Unrecognized device string".
I noticed that it doesn't give the option for Vista. From some other forums I looked at my menu.lst file, which I reproduce here. The last two options (Windows vista and XP) doesn't appear in my GRUB menu at start up. I also include /boot/grub/device.map and fdisk -l below.
Code:
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10
# .........................
# A bunch more comments (starting with #) that I removed. Let me know if I should repost with them.
# .........................
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-15-generic
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-15-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-15-generic
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.28-16-generic
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.28-16-generic (recovery mode)
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-16-generic root=UUID=f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-16-generic
title Ubuntu 9.10, memtest86+
uuid f7fc3d3d-eb82-4572-a75b-4449d0755913
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda3
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda5
title Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
/boot/grub/device.map
Code:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
fdisk -l
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 15 120456 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 16 1321 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1321 27760 212374520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 27761 38914 89587625+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 38587 38914 2620416 dd Unknown
/dev/sda6 27761 28732 7807558+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 28733 33595 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 33596 38586 40090176 b W95 FAT32
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x393bfcf7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 12749 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS
Any help out there?
TIA
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