don't boot other OS (Windows)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
my computer consists of 2 hard disk. one is an IDE 40 GB and the other one is sata 250 GB. i've set BIOS to boot from the 250 GB HDD. My 250 GB HDD consists of a windows xp. i've installed ubuntu 9.04 and everything went OK. it asked to restart my computer, which i did. From the GRUB menu i can see ubuntu + other operating system where i can see my windows XP. when i select ubuntu, the computer start ubuntu without problem, but when trying to boot windows xp, it doesn't boot. (sorry i forget which error message was issued. if i'm not wrong, it says 'missing ntldr')
infact i've been able to counter this problem. i've just booted ubuntu, open menu.lst in /boot/grub, and i've changed its contents.
before it was like this:
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
and i've changed to:
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd0)
chainloader +1
afterwhich, when selecting windows XP from grub menu, it now boots windows XP.
i believe it's a bug, because after installing ubuntu (9.04), it should be able to boot both OS whenever one is selected, and not that the user needs to alter the menu.lst in (/boot/grub), for it to be able to boot win XP.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
affects: | ubuntu → grub (Ubuntu) |
outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)