I have a good answer for all those that can't boot windows and have a duel boot system try reinstaling your fadora using the ext 2(!!!) if you use the ext3 and have problems down the road you will find out you cann't even boot from your windows CD

Bug #120780 reported by silly1
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hal (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ok, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 i386. After some problems and lots of searching I found that my drive needed to be manually set. Once done grub comes up and Ubuntu boots fine. My problem is that I can't get into windows. I get the error "ntldr missing or corrupted". I have a feeling that grub menu.lst is just not pointing to the right drive, I am including the output of that file and also /etc/fstab. I have Ubuntu installed on hda and Windows installed on sda. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
If you need more information, please let me know.

Steve

fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=8b5480c6-bdf4-4a98-8b76-8921e045ad9e / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hdc1
UUID=067CCCE97CCCD519 /media/hdc1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hdd1
UUID=5CF48029F480078A /media/hdd1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4A50F6F350F6E49B /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=60BCFE31BCFE0178 /media/sdb1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=6E8861E78861ADF1 /media/sdb2 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdc1
UUID=2064450D6444E6DE /media/sdc1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=f24d4be3-b1f8-40aa-888b-b7a0ab9f09e2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

menu.lst
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=8b5480c6-bdf4-4a98-8b76-8921e045ad9e ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=8b5480c6-bdf4-4a98-8b76-8921e045ad9e ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic

title Ubuntu, memtest86+
root (hd0,1)
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 (hd3,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd3)
map (hd3) (hd0)
chainloader +1

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

This isn't a bug report! Please file a support request at http://answers.launchpad.net/

Changed in hal:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Revision history for this message
J G Steenbeek (jangdot) wrote :

Dear team

I have had 2 problems by updating from Ubuntu 7 to7.1
1: in the bootmanager (grub menu.list) were gone booting windows 2000 and suse 9.0.
     I have my computer triple booted.
2: Restoring the menu.list by using the texteditor wasn't possible because I have not the rights.

I have done it my way by using the suse cd-rom to reboot from hard disk to enter suse, so
I can change the menu.list of ubuntu by using the texteditor of suse. So at the end all is working good.

I think it isn't the way to do it so. Updating mustn't damage the menu.list at all.That is the "bug"

greatings

J G Steenbeek
<email address hidden>

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