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Hi, After installing Ubuntu 8.10 in my laptop I-ve partitioned the disk and I-ve installed win xp in another partition. Since this GRUB doesn-t appears when my laptop boots and ...
  1. 02-13-2009 #1
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    GRUB issue

    Hi,
    After installing Ubuntu 8.10 in my laptop I-ve partitioned the disk and I-ve installed win xp in another partition. Since this GRUB doesn-t appears when my laptop boots and I can only use xp. How to solve this?
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    Windows doean't play nice with other operating systems and when installed it will overwrite the bootloader. I believe the simplest way to sort this out is to download the supergrub live CD (Linky) and use that to restore your Grub settings.
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    Windows Installer has removed GRUB and you have to re-install it.
    Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD, open Terminal and execute this
    Code:
    sudo grub
    You will get a grub prompt, grub>
    Execute this:
    Code:
    find /boot/grub/stage1
    If you get "Error 15: File not found", try the following:
    Code:
    find /grub/stage1
    Using this information, set the root device (fill in X,Y with whatever the find command returned):
    Code:
    root (hdX,Y)
setup (hd0)
quit
    Reboot machine. Grub Menu will appear on startup. You have to edit menu.lst to add an entry of Windows OS in GRUB Menu.
    We need to check Partition Structure of your Hard disk for that. Execute this
    Code:
    sudo fdisk -l
    Post output here.
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