Hi
I'm having a problem getting grub to detect my XP partition.
Original configuration:-
Hard drive partitioned with primary partitions (Vista and Vista restore) and an extended partition for data
did not want anything to do with Vista so
I Installed XP in extended partition
Vista boot manager offered Vista or XP
All worked for years
Decided to remove Vista and dual boot with Ubuntu
I am working without a net here. All of my data, terrabyte of family photos...etc.
Thanks for any help. Been trying this by the guess and error method for days.
I know about the "Swerdna" post but it is way to difficult for me.
I do this every other output from Microsoft, so it is very difficult to remember
what transpired. Bedsides it changes with each new distro.
Hi. I new to opensuse and just installed it today. When I installed it, I used lvm to parition my hard drive and just let it do its thing. It shrunk my windows partition to 150 GB of 250 GB. I assumed it would let me dual boot just like ubuntu let me do but when I booted. It only gave me two options Desktop -- OpenSUSE 11.3 and failsafe -- opensuse 11.3.
OK, I have read for days and have tried many different ways, including reinstalling xp, then ubuntu a second time.
After I finish my Ubuntu install, grub runs at boot like it is supposed to.
Only grub displays Ubuntu, Ubuntu repair, memtest, and Vista recovery.
I have installed XP over the Vista partition, leaving the recovery partition alone for now. Then installed Ubuntu side by side.
Ive been running a dual boot set up with Vista for a while (I usually mess things up when I update suse :P)
I left boot options at the default which was my initial mistake, but basically i think grub was installed at the mbr. In other words i didnt have the windows boot menu.
so this is my brothers pc and i finally convinced him to try out ubuntu and went about installing it...
he did have windows 7 and xp installed (with 4 partitions, win7, documents partition, win xp and another partition which called itself extended partition.
so ubuntu installed and then when i rebooted on grub it first showed ubuntu or "windows vista boot repair" (which was the original os when
well, in the last two and a half years, I have had a dual boot system consisting of Win XP and Suse 10.1....then 10.2.....then 10.3 but since the geniuses at Novell decided to take down the repository's for 10.3 because of 11.X now i'm forced to upgrade. I successfully installed 11.2 and it looks like a quality distro. However now I cannot set up grub.
Hello, I will first say that I am sorry if this information is already somewhere on the forums, If it is I cant think of a good search string for it.
I have seen many similar problems but none with the exact issue I am having so please don't half read and flame me.
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