Dual boot Ubuntu/Xp Pro problem

I used partition magic 8. 0 to create the partition for Ubuntu 6. 10 and the swap partition. Booting in to Linux works fine, but when I attempt to boot in to Xp using GRUB, I get an autocheck error and it fails to load Xp.

Everything Linux 1798 This topic was started by misawa, 2006-12-15 22:35

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misawa

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#158554

2006-12-15 23:35

I used partition magic 8.0 to create the partition for Ubuntu 6.10 and the swap partition. Booting in to Linux works fine, but when I attempt to boot in to Xp using GRUB, I get an "autocheck" error and it fails to load Xp. I can't seem to find the grub.conf (it's not in /boot/grub or /etc). Any ideas?

Yep, I'm a noob.

misawa

FC% Kernel Update Lost eth0

Why TWO SATA Controllers?

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Wilhelmus

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#158555

2006-12-16 10:48

I think it's /boot/grub/menu.lst in Ubuntu.

misawa

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#158556

2006-12-18 13:29

Ok, so here's my menu.lst file - see anything that jumps out?

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet

initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
boot

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
boot

### 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/hda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

misawa

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#158557

2006-12-19 15:52

FYI: I had to unhide the Xp partition. Boots in to both OS's fine now.