I am a Linux newbie, had Windows XP and Ubuntu installed (9.10/ grub2) and working perfectly. I had to re-install Windows XP and thus I followed the official tutorial to reinstall grub2 (and run update-grub2). I don't know if I made an mistake but:
- grub is working on startup, listing Ubuntu and XP (OK)
- when I select Windows XP I just get a black screen (Not OK)
- when I boot on a Win XP CD, it doesn't detect any hard drive (Ugh)
I guess there is some problem with the file system of my windows partition? Here is the output of
sudo fdisk -l
(Win XP is supposed to be on /dev/sda1 and my documents are saved on /dev/sda5)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4741 35841928+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4742 10338 42306202 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4742 7427 20303544 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 10210 10338 963868+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 7427 10210 21038080 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Matt
