zerdud
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Ok so long story short here... originally I had installed Windows XP followed by Ubuntu 8.10. I picked up an OEM Vista Home Premium disc from Newegg and tried to perform an upgrade. It wouldn't upgrade the existing OS so I installed over the existing WinXP installation. Obviously when I rebooted, Vista had hijacked the bootloader.
I figured the easiest solution was to use EasyBCD (I had read about it before), so I had a copy of my menu.lst from the Ubuntu installation and a copy of EasyBCD ready on a USB drive. I installed EasyBCD on my Vista partition, ran it, and installed the NeoGrub Bootloader. Then, I pasted my menu.lst in. When I reboot, it won't let me fire up any of the Ubuntu options. I get something like this:
Pressing any key takes me back to the Ubuntu options, and all of them give me the same file not found error. Vista boots fine though.
I had assumed that pasting the menu.lst in would have done the trick. Apparently not, though. I've got my menu.lst below...
It looks like the Ubuntu installation picked up an old Win2k3/WinXP dual boot on a secondary drive, which I believe is the "Windows/NT/2000/XP" entry at the end.
I figured the easiest solution was to use EasyBCD (I had read about it before), so I had a copy of my menu.lst from the Ubuntu installation and a copy of EasyBCD ready on a USB drive. I installed EasyBCD on my Vista partition, ran it, and installed the NeoGrub Bootloader. Then, I pasted my menu.lst in. When I reboot, it won't let me fire up any of the Ubuntu options. I get something like this:
Booting 'Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic'
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro quiet splash
Error 17: File not found
Press any key to continue...
Pressing any key takes me back to the Ubuntu options, and all of them give me the same file not found error. Vista boots fine though.
I had assumed that pasting the menu.lst in would have done the trick. Apparently not, though. I've got my menu.lst below...
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10
## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu
# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue
## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret
#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#
#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro
## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true
## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false
## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all
## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false
## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 61b98757-a987-4fcf-a9f2-27c8c0f0ad50
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title Windows NT/2000/XP (loader)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
It looks like the Ubuntu installation picked up an old Win2k3/WinXP dual boot on a secondary drive, which I believe is the "Windows/NT/2000/XP" entry at the end.
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