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I'm trying to dual boot ubuntu and xp pro
below is my fdisk print out
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders ...
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- 04-10-2007 #1Just Joined!
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trying to dual boot ubuntu and XP
I'm trying to dual boot ubuntu and xp pro
below is my fdisk print out
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 637 5116671 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 638 892 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 * 893 1275 3076447+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4 1276 12748 92156872+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1276 12748 92156841 7 HPFS/NTFS
I installed ubuntu first then xp and couldn't get back to ubuntu, so being a newbe I reinstalled ubuntu, now xp won't boot from grub. I had to manually add in the xp option in grub
here is the list from the menu.lst
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1
thanks,
- 04-10-2007 #2
try mapping code.
Code:title Windows XP Professional map (hd0,0) (hd0,3) map (hd0,3) (hd0,0) root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1
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