cant seem to get winxp (ntfs) to boot from grub

[Gr3g0s]

hi all,
i am doing my first ever linux install
anyway i've just installed kubuntu 5.10 heres my setup
200 gb primary master with windows xp on primary 30gb NTFS partition
rest of hdd is other ntfs drives
40 gb primary slave for kubuntu the partitions are
512mb /boot ext3 (primary) hd1,0
10 gb / ext3 (primary) hd1,1
2gb swap swap (logical) hd1,5
5 gb /var ext3 (logical) hd1,6
10 gb /home ext3 (logical) hd1,7
10 gb /usr ext3 (logical) hd1,8

i did it this way so that if i stuff my linux install i can just unplug the slave hdd and winxp will just boot from its own boot sector

i've set the bios to boot from slave hdd and installed grub to hd1,0

install went smoothly

so anyway to get linux to boot i had to change grubs config file first line (for linux boot) from
root (hd1,0) to root (hd0,0) not sure why coz my linux is on (hd1,0)
that will let me boot my linux installation.

my next step was to get the xp install to boot
so being a clever little dickie i changed the xp (under "Lesser operating Systems") config to
rootnoverify (hd1,0) i searched and someone said to use noverify (removed error about partition type)
makeactive found through search
chainloader +1 was already there

now i just get garbage (hierogliphics) although i can remove the linux drive (temporarily) and windows will boot just fine

sorry about the essay, i just wanted to make sure you had all info u need to help me please!!!
thanks
Greg

[towy71]

Can you give us the contents of two files /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.list the former will tell us your disk layout and the latter will tell us what you've done wrong

I would imagine your /boot/grub/menu.list should look something like:

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 
root		(hd1,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
savedefault
boot

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 (recovery mode)
root		(hd1,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-10-386
boot


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title		Windows XP
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

What you have points to the wrong partition

[Gr3g0s]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /media/hda6 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /media/hda7 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /media/hda8 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb8 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

[Gr3g0s]

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
savedefault
boot

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hdb2 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
boot

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

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Lesser operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
#savedefault
chainloader +1

[Gr3g0s]

i know it seems odd but if i point grubs linux to the right partition ie (hd1,0) i get unknown filesystem and if i point it to the wrong partition ie (hd0,0) it boots just fine
also i gotta point xp to the wrong partition ie (hd1,0) or i just get file system ext3 and i return to grub boot menu
so I'm still getting heiroglifics when grub tries to boot winxp
anyway i think i might have to get ntfs support for grub and linux can anyone help me
cheers
greg