[mjolnar]

I was running Vista Ultimate 64, I loaded Ubuntu 8.04 within Window. My problem is that I can no longer find Vista. I shows 1 partition on C:. It is only an 80 GB drive, D: is just used for storage, but because they are Windows files I can't access them either.

When I boot it goes right to Hardy, doesn't give me the option to pick Vista or Hardy. It only took a few minutes to load Hardy, so I doubt it formated the whole hard drive.

Any sugestions

[bigtomrodney]

Can you post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst here please?

[Geeth]

Also can you post the output of

df -h

you may need to have sudo infront

[mjolnar]

I'm a nubie so I hope this is right.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 71G 4.0G 64G 6% /
varrun 976M 100K 976M 1% /var/run
varlock 976M 0 976M 0% /var/lock
udev 976M 72K 976M 1% /dev
devshm 976M 12K 976M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 976M 43M 933M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 71G 4.0G 64G 6% /home/alan/.gvfs

[mjolnar]

I have know idea how to bring that up. I have been trying Linux for about 3 weeks. I don't do that much with it. It seemed fairly easy till I started having problems with being able to start Vista.

Do I access it in terminal, cause when I try to do anything in the boot sequence, it just keeps loading.

[Geeth]

Originally Posted by mjolnar

I have know idea how to bring that up. I have been trying Linux for about 3 weeks. I don't do that much with it. It seemed fairly easy till I started having problems with being able to start Vista.

Do I access it in terminal, cause when I try to do anything in the boot sequence, it just keeps loading.

What do you trouble bringing ?
the /boot/grub/menu.lst

[mjolnar]

Originally Posted by Geeth

What do you trouble bringing ?
the /boot/grub/menu.lst

Yes, do I use a command in the terminal or do I have to try to stop the boot sequence?

[Geeth]

It's a text file.

Try edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

or use your file manager. and just go to /boot/grub/ and menu.lst

[mjolnar]

Originally Posted by Geeth

It's a text file.

Try edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

or use your file manager. and just go to /boot/grub/ and menu.lst

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-18-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-18-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

[Geeth]

add the following to your menu.lst and reboot

title Windows
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

you must have root privledges to do this.

easiest way i can think of is

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

type / paste in the code at the bottom

so you file will look similar to

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=43bdf038-9f63-4934-a4c9-c55ef2fdebf1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

title Windows
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

you don't need to have all the different kernel versions in the menu.lst, thats why they arent in my list above.

reboot and see how that goes