<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Jacek Sapieja <span dir="ltr"><sapieja@interia.pl></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Partitons problem is secondary. I want winxp to be visible<br>
on boot menu. I wanted to that through menu.lst but I am not sure how.<br>
James just told me that drive format is not enough and partitions must be deleted.<br>
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Anyway, I either dont know hoe to use fdisk or sth is wrong because I cannot acces partitons<br>
through commands. I know I must access the table and check whether partitions overlap.<br>
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All I want to do is:<br>
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-Make windows visible in the boot options ( after GRUB reinstall only ubuntu is there).<br>
-be able to move and merge partitions of format (delete and format?) and set up new partitions.<br>
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Jacek<br>
</blockquote><div><br><p>By default GRUB Hides the menu .</p>
<p>Now search the section that looks like this</p>
<p>## hiddenmenu<br>
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)<br>
hiddenmenu</p>
<p><strong>Show GRUB Menu</strong></p>
<p>Put a # before hiddenmenu to comment that line out</p>
<p>## hiddenmenu<br>
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)<br>
#hiddenmenu</p>
Save the file, and you should see the menu the when you reboot your machine.<br><br> if you add <br><br>title WinXP<br>root (hd0,0)<br>makeactive<br>chainloader +1<br>boot<br><br></div></div>to menu.lst where (hd0,0) refers to your hd0 refers to master hd and the following 0 refers to the partition no. in this case the first partition. this will boot, windows xp. <br clear="all">
<br><br>hope that helps <br>azmodie<br>-- <br>" Due to the speed of light being faster than the speed of sound people often look bright until they speak" <br>
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