Question #77500 on grub in ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77500
Tom proposed the following answer: Yes the menu.lst does look right :( It was really just the Windows stanza at the end that i was looking for but the rest of what you gave might be useful later maybe. # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition rootnoverify (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 The line "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" was pointing at the right place :( The lines starting with # are the same in almost every install and are 'only' explanatory notes but they can be handy to have on your own machine. I find that by scrolling past things like that i gradually learn stuff because every so often something catches my eye. A good line to add in is howmany=2 as this should keep the menu a bit shorter after a few updates. It should be before the line "## ## End Default Options ##" (I'm not sure if positioning does make any difference but it might). Anyway to edit menu.lst you have to give the action "SuperUser" priveleges so on a normal command-line try sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst it will ask for your normal user password, not your SuperUser or Root one. It will open gedit as normal but this time you can save changes. It's best not to delete the # lines from here! Thanks for saving the space in the thread tho :) Can you copy the last couple of lines of gparted into here? It might be good to see how much space sda5 & sda6 have. I'm not sure what to do about sda1. Leaving it alone might mean the data is still there and maybe one day you'll be able to recover some of it. I think i have an old drive somewhere with a partition like that and a couple more drives that Windows managed to lose the partition tables for too. One day i hope to recover some of the stuff on those. Apols, good luck and regards from Tom -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
