[YLUG] Grub fault

[Harry Mills]

Acer recovery will be the first partition on the drive followed by a second
partition for Windows. Change the (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) and you should have
windows back. Do not use the acer recovery partition as it will do exactly
as you predict and lose the working Ubuntu and everything on windows.

If this doesn't work then I recommend running "sudo fdisk -l" in Ubuntu to
find which partition the windows partition is.

Harry

On 1/3/08, Dominic Hibbs <dominic.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ## ## End Default Options ##
>
> title        Windows XP Media Center Edition
> root        (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader    +1
>
> title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
> root        (hd0,4)
> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-genericroot=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash
> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
> quiet
>
> title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
> root        (hd0,4)
> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-genericroot=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single
> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
>
> title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
> root        (hd0,4)
> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-genericroot=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash
> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
> quiet
>
> title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
> root        (hd0,4)
> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-genericroot=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single
> initrd        /boot/initrd.img- 2.6.20-15-generic
>
> title        Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
> root        (hd0,4)
> 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/sda1
> title        Acer rescue
> root        (hd0,0)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader    +1
>
>
>
> On 02/01/2008, Harry Mills <mail at hjmills.co.uk<https://mail.google.com/a/hjmills.co.uk/?view=cm&tf=0&to=mail@hjmills.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> >
> > If the Windows boot loader is fine you can add it back in
> >
> > title                 Windows XP Home Edition
> > rootnoverify      (hd0,0) # Adjust for your partition
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > I think that should do it.
> >
> >
> > On 1/2/08, Dominic Hibbs < dominic.hibbs at gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/a/hjmills.co.uk/?view=cm&tf=0&to=dominic.hibbs@gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Help!!!!
> > >
> > > I have just installed version 7.10 of Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > I have lost the boot option for windows XP.  How do I get it back - It
> > > was the default option.
> > >
> > > Cheers Dominic
> > >
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