Harry's suggestion (and many variations) give me a Windows option in the menu but they all go to Acer recovery which, I believe, looses all data from the system and might mess up the, working Ubuntu. Below is the last part of the last attempt.
<br><br>## ## End Default Options ##<br><br>title Windows XP Media Center Edition<br>root (hd0,0)<br>makeactive<br>chainloader +1<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic<br>root (hd0,4)
<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic<br>quiet<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
(recovery mode)<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic<br><br>title Ubuntu
7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic<br>
quiet<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-
2.6.20-15-generic<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin<br>quiet<br><br>### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST<br><br># This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
<br># ones.<br>title Other operating systems:<br>root<br><br><br># This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS<br># on /dev/sda1<br>title Acer rescue<br>root (hd0,0)<br>savedefault
<br>makeactive<br>chainloader +1<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Harry Mills</b> <<a href="mailto:mail@hjmills.co.uk">mail@hjmills.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If the Windows boot loader is fine you can add it back in<br><br>title Windows XP Home Edition
<br>rootnoverify (hd0,0) # Adjust for your partition<br>chainloader +1<br><br>I think that should do it.<br>
<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_1173c81a888aa488_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dominic Hibbs</b> <<a href="mailto:dominic.hibbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dominic.hibbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="e" id="q_1173c81a888aa488_3">
Help!!!!<br><br>I have just installed version 7.10 of Ubuntu.<br><br>I have lost the boot option for windows XP. How do I get it back - It was the default option.<br><br>Cheers Dominic<br><br>
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