3 September 2010, 3:05 pm
I have vista installed on my laptops HDD and I freed up some space to add Ubuntus partitions. I went through the install and at the last part where you set the bootloader to a partition it got set to my vista partition, so it put grub on my vista partition and now when I boot grub comes up and I can boot in to Ubuntu but when I try to boot in to windows it just restarts grub. here is the data from fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x98b977c6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 16579 133169676 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 16579 19458 23119873 5 Extended /dev/sda5 16579 17066 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 17066 18889 14647296 83 Linux /dev/sda7 18889 19458 4564992 83 Linux And here is the /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then load_env fi set default="0" if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry} save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi function savedefault { if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then saved_entry=${chosen} save_env saved_entry fi } function recordfail { set recordfail=1 if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi } insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't # understand terminal_output terminal gfxterm fi fi insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale set lang=en insmod gettext if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then set timeout=-1 else set timeout=10 fi ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=white/black set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 linux/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 ro quiet splash initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic } menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-24-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 echo'Loading Linux 2.6.32-24-generic ...' linux/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 ro single echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" { insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 linux16/boot/memtest86+.bin } menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" { insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7edd625b-2ee7-44ee-bd31-2c323e09c264 linux16/boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8 } ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry "Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 78be6059be601244 chainloader +1 } ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### I have never used Linux or anything like this, So please explain exactly what to do if you know what's going on. Thanks I do not have the windows install disk, my laptop was build by hp so they put a disk that just formats everything and puts everything back to the starting point. I would like to just fix grub so it will boot windows and ubuntu.... Read More »
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