(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