I have been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for sometime dual booted with
XP. When I first installed it though I found an odd problem: I can boot
all day long just fine into Ubuntu, but if I boot XP, grub will no
longer load.  With Breezy, the laptop would just continually
restart/try to load grub/reboot/etc...
I finally figured out how to get the Breezy install to run Lilo and
everything worked fine.

I just upgraded to Dapper and installed Grub. Now once I boot into
windows, grub hangs with the message "loading Grub 1.5". I have had no
luck yet in getting Lilo installed again (over the top of Grub) and the
install doesn't seem to offer the option.

Ideally I'd like to figure out why Grub is failing, alternatively I
would just reinstall Lilo.

I am using a Dell D810, the one strange thing... I'm not sure what the
difference is but my hard drive maps as "sda" not "hda". SCSI??

>fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            2551        9729    57665317+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4375        5226     6843658+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5227        5469     1951866   82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda7            5470        9729    34218418+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8            2551        4374    14651217   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order


sda8 is my ubuntu root partition. sda7 is just a data disk. sda5 is
/home


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Ted wrote:
> I have been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for sometime dual booted with
> XP. When I first installed it though I found an odd problem: I can boot
> all day long just fine into Ubuntu, but if I boot XP, grub will no
> longer load.  With Breezy, the laptop would just continually
> restart/try to load grub/reboot/etc...
> I finally figured out how to get the Breezy install to run Lilo and
> everything worked fine.
>
> I just upgraded to Dapper and installed Grub. Now once I boot into
> windows, grub hangs with the message "loading Grub 1.5". I have had no
> luck yet in getting Lilo installed again (over the top of Grub) and the
> install doesn't seem to offer the option.
>
> Ideally I'd like to figure out why Grub is failing, alternatively I
> would just reinstall Lilo.
>
> I am using a Dell D810, the one strange thing... I'm not sure what the
> difference is but my hard drive maps as "sda" not "hda". SCSI??
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3            2551        9729    57665317+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            4375        5226     6843658+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            5227        5469     1951866   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7            5470        9729    34218418+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda8            2551        4374    14651217   83  Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
>
> sda8 is my ubuntu root partition. sda7 is just a data disk. sda5 is
> /home
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

My advice is to install either Lilo or Grub to the root partition
bootsector and let Windows keep control of the MBR. You can configure
the Windows boot-loader to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu.

Install the package doc-linux-text and read this:
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Linux+NT-Loader.gz

You can also probably find the document on the Internet.

HTH

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Mumia W. wrote:
> My advice is to install either Lilo or Grub to the root partition
> bootsector and let Windows keep control of the MBR. You can configure
> the Windows boot-loader to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu.
>
> Install the package doc-linux-text and read this:
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Linux+NT-Loader.gz
>
> You can also probably find the document on the Internet.
>
> HTH

That's pretty much what I had to do. Thanks for the help.

Ted

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In message <1igjg.12092$921.11828@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Mumia W. <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam.usenet@earthlink.net> writes
>Ted wrote: 
>
>My advice is to install either Lilo or Grub to the root partition
>bootsector and let Windows keep control of the MBR. You can configure
>the Windows boot-loader to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu.
>
>Install the package doc-linux-text and read this:
>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Linux+NT-Loader.gz
>
>You can also probably find the document on the Internet.
>
Assuming a diskette drive, how about following the instructions for
putting GRUB on a diskette/CD? Always useful for a quick rescue and (if
successful) you could then rebuild your MBR (if necessary) or recreate
missing files in sda1.

--
Jeremy Boden

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