i am entering the windows part of menu.lst file

*title        Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root        (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1

*is there any error
*
*
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Syam <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> i have got a sata hard disk. when scsi IDE mode (in bios) is selected, the
>> grub is not detected and grub error 18 is showing. but when the RAID mode is
>> selected, the grub is showing but while trying to select windows, a disk
>> error is showing. before this installation there was no such problem
>
>
> What has SCSI IDE mode got to do with RAID? I thought the former was just
> to emulate SATA as SCSI for some operating systems.
> Anayway, what was the original BIOS setup when you installed Windows? I'd
> recommend you keep that in that setting. Now is Ubuntu booting properly? You
> can also try to re-install GRUB. Boot from a LiveCD, or a normal install
> CD/DVD in 'rescue' mode (or whatever Ubuntu calls it), and then re-install
> grub with:
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> In anycase, if you know the partition in which you've installed Windows,
> check if the grub entry is correct - the (hd0,xx) in then "chainloader+1"
> entry.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Syam
> [email protected]
>
>
> >
>


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