Dual Boot Linux & Vista - Problem

[Shaji]

Hello !

i have a problem. I had Vista installed, and after i installed ubuntu 8.10.. but now the grub doesn't recognize the Vista Partition. What should i do?

Thank you!

[Siddharthr]

This is a very commonly asked question and a puzzling one. verify your menu.lst entries.

vim /boot/grub/menu.lst

[Shaji]

eheh that's the problem i'm facing... vista doesn't appear on the list of operational system..

can i put the content here?

the last part of the document is:

-------------------------------------------
## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 77ca5db5-a411-4784-8e7c-ec2a0b4c4697
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=77ca5db5-a411-4784-8e7c-ec2a0b4c4697 ro locale=pt_BR quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 77ca5db5-a411-4784-8e7c-ec2a0b4c4697
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=77ca5db5-a411-4784-8e7c-ec2a0b4c4697 ro locale=pt_BR single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic

title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 77ca5db5-a411-4784-8e7c-ec2a0b4c4697
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

[Siddharthr]

add these lines then:

title "Windows Vista"

root (hd0,0)

chainloader +1

makedefault

If u are having a sata disk then in the second line give sd0 instead of hd0.

Better put these lines before the lines showing ubuntu

[Shaji]

well.. my hd is sata..
and the partition vista is installed is the 5

so, i put
root (sd0,5)

but it gets error 23 on grub.. that is something like "number parse exception" or something like that.. i forgot now!
when i put hd instead of sd, it shows "starting up" but doesn't boot..

should i do something?

[Bency]

change sd0 to hd0

Brother BAD LOBO

I think you misunderstood, I have sata hd and always put as hd0 in grub.

[Shaji]

oh yes! i have just read that on grub sata should be put in hd too..
thank you man!
ill test now..