Simon, Vista needs to handle XP's boot once it is installed. Booting XP directly will give you an "NTDLR" error.
Your GRUB should be able to boot Linux, then boot the Windows bootloader. >From the Windows bootloader you should be able to boot XP or Vista. It seems to be a problem with the Vista bootloader...first thing to check would be that its chose the right place to boot from Not sure how you would do it though...i dont use Vista or 7 On 19 June 2010 23:32, Daniel Case <danielcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simon, Vista needs to handle XP's boot once it is installed. > > Booting XP directly will give you an "NTDLR" error. > > Your GRUB should be able to boot Linux, then boot the Windows bootloader. > From the Windows bootloader you should be able to boot XP or Vista. > > The best place to look for a fix is within the Vista bootloader, i > believe theres a few programs that can look at that for you. > > On 19 June 2010 23:14, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Windows is rather fussy about its boot sequence and it's going to be easier >> to choose one boot loader for all three OSes, of which Grub is probably the >> easier to set up. >> >> Simon >> >> On 19 Jun 2010 20:49, "Dave Smith" <d...@p3computers.com> wrote: >> >> >> Trying to figure out what went wrong with an Ubuntu install. >> >> Prior to install >> >> XP on SATA0 160GB >> Storage (NTFS) on SATA1, 2x 80GB partitions (how it's been for years) >> Vista on PATA0 40GB with boot loader >> >> Then installed 80GB on SATA2 to install ubuntu. Did install, installed GRUB >> to this new HD and GRUB points to Ubuntu and Vista. When I choose Vista to >> pass on to that boot-loader, I can launch Vista but not launch "an earlier >> version of Windows" ie XP, it just restarts. >> >> If I interrupt the boot sequence and point it directly at Vista, I can boot >> "an earlier version of windows" XP. >> >> How can fix it so I go GRUB --> Vista Boot Loader --> XP?? >> >> Cheers >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> >
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