Ubuntu doesn't recognise windows/fat32 partitions

[fishmonger12]

howdy

i just recently uninstalled mandrake and installed ubuntu over it. i used the existing partitions from mandrake. i have 2 disks, 1 raptor with all windows on it, and one 80 gb hd with 40 gigs of fat32 (used for moving things between windows + linux) and 40 gigs of ext3 linux partition. mandrake's lilo used to recognise windows and i could boot into it fine. grub doesn't. are there any grub commands i can use to make sure windows is recognised? are there fat/fat16/fat32 drivers i need to download? my floppy drive doesn't recognise fat formatted floppies, but it does recognise my fat formatted thumb drive. i need some input. also, if you have any suggested fixes, make sure you list all the steps and commands because i'm rather new to linux and i probably won't know what your talking about.

i know my windows partition is still there because i booted using knoppix as a rescue disk and it recognised everything, even the nfts formatted raptor. anyway, help is appreciated.

 

[JFoobar]

Make sure you cross post this on the forums at Ubuntu.com.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: fishmonger12
howdy

i just recently uninstalled mandrake and installed ubuntu over it. i used the existing partitions from mandrake. i have 2 disks, 1 raptor with all windows on it, and one 80 gb hd with 40 gigs of fat32 (used for moving things between windows + linux) and 40 gigs of ext3 linux partition. mandrake's lilo used to recognise windows and i could boot into it fine. grub doesn't. are there any grub commands i can use to make sure windows is recognised? are there fat/fat16/fat32 drivers i need to download? my floppy drive doesn't recognise fat formatted floppies, but it does recognise my fat formatted thumb drive. i need some input. also, if you have any suggested fixes, make sure you list all the steps and commands because i'm rather new to linux and i probably won't know what your talking about.

i know my windows partition is still there because i booted using knoppix as a rescue disk and it recognised everything, even the nfts formatted raptor. anyway, help is appreciated.

Add the Windows installation to the grub configuration. The rest of this is nonsense. 😕

Regarding the bolded part: Why should we hold your hand? google.com/linux is available to you too after all. And hell, I've posted a sample config on anandtech before.

 

[fishmonger12]

as to why i need hand holding, i don't have internet on my computer and i don't feel like trucking to the damn library every time i run into a command i don't know/understand. if you don't want to do this, you don't have to post.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: fishmonger12
as to why i need hand holding, i don't have internet on my computer and i don't feel like trucking to the damn library every time i run into a command i don't know/understand. if you don't want to do this, you don't have to post.

You're on the internet now. There is always the man command, which will explain things.

default 0
timeout 5
# Windows OS
title Windows 2000
# Can I skip the next two lines if I use this? [ rootnoverify (hd0,0) ]
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

# Linux OS
title Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda1 ro

 

[fishmonger12]

i just gave up and put mandrake back on with lilo bootloader. lilo autodetected the windows partition. i'm not sure about mandrake, every time i try and install something there's some package i'm missing. when i go get that package, i'm missing a package to install IT. it's kind of annoying. i'm going to research some more before i put ubuntu back on. thanks for the help.