[Bug 368057] Re: don't boot other OS (Windows)

[dino99]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if
that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)

** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  don't boot other OS (Windows)

Status in grub package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  my computer consists of 2 hard disk. one is an IDE 40 GB and the other
  one is sata 250 GB. i've set BIOS to boot from the 250 GB HDD. My 250
  GB HDD consists of a windows xp. i've installed ubuntu 9.04 and
  everything went OK. it asked to restart my computer, which i did. From
  the GRUB menu i can see ubuntu + other operating system where i can
  see my windows XP. when i select ubuntu, the computer start ubuntu
  without problem, but when trying to boot windows xp, it doesn't boot.
  (sorry i forget which error message was issued. if i'm not wrong, it
  says 'missing ntldr')

  infact i've been able to counter this problem. i've just booted ubuntu, open menu.lst in /boot/grub, and i've changed its contents.
  before it was like this:

  title		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
  rootnoverify	(hd1,0)
  savedefault
  makeactive
  map		(hd0) (hd1)
  map		(hd1) (hd0)
  chainloader	+1

  and i've changed to:

  title		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
  rootnoverify	(hd0,0)
  savedefault
  makeactive
  map		(hd0) (hd0)
  map		(hd0) (hd0)
  chainloader	+1

  afterwhich, when selecting windows XP from grub menu, it now boots windows XP.
  i believe it's a bug, because after installing ubuntu (9.04), it should be able to boot both OS whenever one is selected, and not that the user needs to alter the menu.lst in (/boot/grub), for it to be able to boot win XP.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
  Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: yelp
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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