Ubuntu problem

[Tullphan]

I installed Ubuntu last nite choosing to define my partition instead of letting it delete the entire hard drive. After what I thought was a successful installation, I rebooted, hit the "esc" key for Grub & guess what? No XP OS to choose...just alot of Ubuntu choices.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Post the config file.

It looks like the grub config file is something along the lines of /boot/grub/menu.lst. See if that file exists, if not try locate menu.lst to try and find it.

It might look something like this:

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

Without the Windows stuff anyhow. You can try adding that. GL.

BTW, http://www.google.com/linux can be quite helpful.

 

[Davegod75]

did it find your xp installation during setup? It usually looks for other OS's and if it finds one it says something like " found winxp. if this is the only other os installed on your computer than you can safely place the boot program into the MBR.....if not put the boot partiation somewhere else.

do you remember this step? what did you do choose

 

[Tullphan]

I know that during that part of installation I chose to manually do the partitioning. It was there because it offered to delete it for me.
I found the "menu.lst", but it's read-only & I don't know how to change the permission in order to edit.

 

[n0cmonkey]

sudo vi menu.lst
It'll ask you for a password, type in the password you used to login.

 

[OffTopic1]

I had the same problem when I removed Suse 9.2 to install SimplyMepis last weekend, however added the below with an extra space between other scripts to the menu.lst works. (Can replace "Windows 2000" text with any text of your choice).

title=Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I haven't try Ubuntu or Gnome in a few years, however it might have the "run command" similar to KDE & Windows that you can open Nautilus with run as root option. Everything will give you root permission if you open it under that Nautilus window.