Boot Loader Problems

[Nepomuk]

Yeah I thought that was odd, but anyways. I just tried that, but it still comes up with cannot find specified disk, or disk does not exist, something along thoose lines.

Yes if at all possible I would like to keep the utilities partition.

Any other ideas?

Scotter

It's just a slight modification and might not do anything at all, but try

title           Windows XP Pro
map             (hd1) (hd0)
map             (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify    (hd1,1)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

as your entry in the menu.lst.

If that doesn't work, try changing the device.map to

(hd0)   /dev/sda
(hd1)   /dev/sdb

as that's what they are listed as.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[Scotter]

It's just a slight modification and might not do anything at all, but try

title           Windows XP Pro
map             (hd1) (hd0)
map             (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify    (hd1,1)
savedefault
chainloader     +1

as your entry in the menu.lst.

If that doesn't work, try changing the device.map to

(hd0)   /dev/sda
(hd1)   /dev/sdb

as that's what they are listed as.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

Ok, I tried changing menu.lst. Also menu.lst was saved as sda, sdb. I tried changing to hda,hdb, but it didnt work any better. Still says selected disk does not exist.

Scotter

[Scotter]

Also, just looking around the properties of the disk, I noticed that its listing the disk type as SCSI. I don't know if that matters or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

[Scotter]

Another thing that i just noticed, with ubuntu hd set to master, and xp hd set to slave is the setup that i currently have. I wanted to get into xp so i took the ubuntu hd out and set the xp hd to master, but when i do that the computer doesnt boot, however if i set to cable select and put it on the master end of the IDE it boots fine... why???

[Nepomuk]

I don't know about the Cable-Select-Thing, but at least the listing of the Harddrives as SCSI explains, why they are named sda and sdb. I don't know, why they are listed as SCSI in the first place, but there you go.

If you call

mount

it should list hda and hdb as the CD drives (when mounted), doesn't it?

All I can think of right now, is to update grub with

update-grub

and, if that doesn't work, continue playing around with the menu.lst.

Have you tried using root instead of rootnoverify with everything else the same? Have you tried just adding a makeactive?

You can of course try reinstalling GRUB. If nothing of that works, the best solution probably will be to ask the Ubuntu Community, there are loads of cases like this listed there, maybe one will solve your problem.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[cargilcm]

rootnoverify issue still persists on my computer also...I have looked for months and to no avail for a solution to this problem..my computer demonstrates all the same symptoms?!? If anyone has any luck please feel free to discuss - follybeachris@g mail.col