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Dual boot issue

Postby Poltergeist » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:23 pm

Hi,
I'm running 64 bit 1.8 along side XP.
To get GRUB to load I had to change the BIOS setting for the HDD from auto to large. This stopped the error 18 issue and allowed booting into 1.8 via GRUB
The issue now is I am unable to boot XP. Personally I'm happy but it's not my system hehe.
I get the error BOOTMNGR is missing.
I have tried tweaking the menu.lst but this looks to be correct.
Any help appreciated!

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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby vinca » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:40 pm

I've had a similar issue, it was the menu.lst, i was confused because by comparing fdisk -l to menu.lst it was okay, but then i realized that in menu.lst the hard drive #s started with zero :? that was a waste of my time figgering that out, just giving you the heads up, you might already know ;)
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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby Poltergeist » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:01 pm

Seem to get to Starting up . . .

But doesn't boot in.
It's on the primary drive first partition so (hd0,0) should be correct.
Would re-installing grub be an idea ??
No idea why it never correctly identified the partition though.

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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby cowboy » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:29 pm

Do you have a copy of Super Grub handy or can you download one?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu ... oblem.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthr ... 280&page=2
I know it says for vista but it may work for XP
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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby Poltergeist » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:34 pm

I'll give it a try, thanks Cowboy.

..::EDIT::..
No go with supergrub.
Did a search for xp's boot files. Surprise, surprise when I last did FIXMBR prior to installing Ultimate Edition where did windows put the files? on a different drive.
My question is if I merely copy these to the root of the windows partition and re-edit the menu.lst to point to the correct partition is this going to fix the issue?
I will try later in the day, but any thoughts would be welcome!!

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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby DaddyX3 » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:04 am

I would recomend repairing the issue your self by hand. Take a look at this site, for a nice explanation of GRUB menu editing.
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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby Poltergeist » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:41 pm

Update,
Having been unable to resolve and the pc is my other halfs, she decided she wanted Windows back, fair play she gave it a try though.
I have now re installed windows which fixed that issue. Also I have re-formatted and partitioned the drives as I feel that was where the underlying issue was.

Sorry if anyone has a similar issue as this wont help much.

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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby Twisted » Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:36 pm

Poltergeist wrote:Update,
Having been unable to resolve and the pc is my other halfs, she decided she wanted Windows back, fair play she gave it a try though.
I have now re installed windows which fixed that issue. Also I have re-formatted and partitioned the drives as I feel that was where the underlying issue was.

Sorry if anyone has a similar issue as this wont help much.

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you have separate drives for each system? I auto installed 1.8.64 on a secondary sata drive, XP32 residing on a "primary" IDE drive...

I let Ultimate Edition choose all the configuration, I did not use any advanced boot or partitioning conf, gparted saw the primary IDE but labled it sda1, and labeled the real sata drive as sda2... when it came around to that part where you can import XP profiles the installer said there were no profiles to import, I figure it was a 32/64 bit issue and not an issue of not recognizing the drive..

so, Ultimate Edition installs, upon reboot the machine booted up directly to windows, no grub? on a typical 32bit ubuntu install I would have gotten a grub error if anything was amis? typically or in the day the boot loader had to be installed in the windows master boot record, apparently thats changed?

what I did was change the drive boot order, so now my bios boots up to the secondary sata first, funny cuz there lies grub and in that is XP and Ultimate Edition? boom everything is fine... not sure how the chain loader is working cuz I haven't looked but grub is solid and it will work...


my guess is if you are running a 32 bitXP on the same drive as a 64bit nix grub hasn't been configured properly or isn't liking it, but I do have XP32 running alongside UE64, separate disks...
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Re: Dual boot issue

Postby Poltergeist » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:15 am

I had and tried a lot of what happened to you.
Just couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Windows was on an sata and putting it's boot files on to an ide. Grub never found system to add docs but setup the loader, just never booted to windows. Initially never booted grub! Finally got grub error 18 which I cured with selecting large for the drive rather than auto in the bios.
I have a fair idea it was due to the drives setups that caused the issues. Three hdd 1 ide, 2 sata all hadd first partition flagged as boot.
If I reinstall now I see possibly no issues but as I use my lappy not the main system I'm happy as is.
Now if gnome can just fix the connect to server issue I'll be a very happy chappy!
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