Dual boot with Gutsy Gibbon BETA and WinXP
Bug #147617 reported by
Joacim Järkeborn
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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busybox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson | ||
grub (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
os-prober (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub
Hello,
I have a laptop with one disk (60 GB). On the first partition (20 GB) I have Windows XP installed. When booting with the Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon BETA and install the system using the free space (40 GB) it can see the WinXP/NTFS partition fine.
After installation, at boot I can not see any Windows XP entries in GRUB list.
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This has also afflicted the desktop install I did of Gutsy Beta - I've seen this reported as far back as one of the tribe releases but I can't see that anyone bothered to report it here.
sda has my windows install
sdb was resized and had gutsy installed on it
Grub failed to detect the windows install on sda when it was being configured by the installer. Unlike others who have reported similar issues, my windows install really is intact:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xca26ca26
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19451 156240126 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcaadcaad
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 11866 95313613+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 * 11867 19137 58404307+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 19138 19452 2530237+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 19138 19452 2530206 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This is a Dell XPS 700 with 4GB ram, Windows XP MCE installed, and RAID turned off.
I've attached my grub menu.lst, but it's really not exciting; it has what you'd expect, except no windows option was added.