Ubuntu
grub-installer package

After installing ubuntu 4.1, my old Windows XP doesn't boot from Grub menu

Bug #14279 reported by Guzmán Coello
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

I had installed a Windows XP on a NTFS partition, with other logical units and a
Fedora Core 3 in other partition with it's swap partitions created. I decided to
quit Fedora and install Ubuntu, and all seemed to be ok, but when my systems
reboot and I want to enter my windows, Grub fails and tells me that there's no
active partition (don't remember the exact message, but if anything would be
wrong in the list file). I've checked the menu.lst file in /boot/grub and
everything seem to be ok.

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Thierry Moisan (thierryn) wrote :

Taking off branding keyword since it's not related.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Do you have multiple hard drives in this machine? Could I see the contents of
/boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/menu.lst?

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14244.

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