Re: Grub Error

["Jay Kramer" <user=102@nabble.blu.org>]

 I have been going through similar issues for the past week.  It turned out 
to be my hard drive.  Super Grub is a good liveCD to try. 
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/

You can boot with the Window XP install disk and when (after a little while) 
you are asked something like ' What you want to do?', select "R" for recover 
and at the prompt type: 
fixmbr. 
That should fix the windows master boot record. Then use Super Grub to 
reinstall the grub menu. 

I installed Ubuntu Hardy on my thinkpad X31 and I was unable to boot 
windows.  I was also unable to recover from IBMs built-in recovery button. 
I reinstalled both operating systems several times before realizing that it 
was the hard drive. After exchanging the hard drive, I loaded Windows XP 
(which seems to take forever).  I was not willing to reload it again so when 
I installed Hardy and it was at the part of the installation where GRUB 
installs, I set it to install to the boot from the Linux partition 
(/dev/sda1) (hd0,1).  When I booted, the machine went straight to windows XP 
without a grub menu. I then used Super Grub live CD to set the boot 
partition to the Linux partition.  And all is well. 

I am certain that in the past, I just installed grub to boot from the 
default partition at /dev/sda0.  I did not want to chance it so I did as 
described above.  Question:  In a dual boot WinXP/Linux can you install the 
grub to boot from (hd0,0) which is the default? 

Hope this helps 
Jay 

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