Working on making a dual boot again, WinXP & Ubuntu 514

A Further Synopsis...

iforone

The MBR-MPT doesnothave to have an Active-Boot flag set for GRUB (Linux)-- but AFAICT windoze WILL overwrite it as soon as you try to boot from it. I have disabled the Boot flag from hda1(win98 Primary) and rebooted into it, and what do you know - it's back - set as "Boot" when I check it with cfdisk after rebooting to linux. With Linux, the boot flag could be active or not - it doesn't matter AFAICT.

Stage 1;

0000170: 00be 937d e82a 00eb fe47 5255 4220 0047 ...}.*...GRUB .G 0000180: 656f 6d00 4861 7264 2044 68 plus 173 6b00 5265 eom.Hard Disk.Re 0000190: 6164 0020 4572 726f 7200 bb01 00b4 0ecd ad. Error.......

Stage 1.5;

00002f0: e83f 00eb 06be 1e21 e837 00be 2321 e831 .?.....!.7..#!.1 0000300: 00eb fe4c 6f61 6468 plus 1 6e67 2073 7461 6765 ...Loading stage 0000310: 312e 3500 2e00 0d0a 0047 656f 6d00 5265 1.5......Geom.Re 0000320: 6164 0020 4572 726f 7200 bb01 00b4 0ecd ad. Error.......

Stage 2;

0000400: ea70 2200 0000 0302 ffff ff00 0000 0000 .p"............. 0000410: 0200 302e 3935 00ff ff06 ff2f 626f 6f74 ..0.95.....-boot 0000420: 2f67 7275 622f 7374 6167 6532 202f 626f grub-stage2bo 0000430: 6f74 2f67 7275 622f 6d65 6e75 2e6c 7374 ot-grub-menu.lst 0000440: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ ....

0001fc0: 0a0a 4752 5542 206c 6f61 6468 plus 1 6e67 2c20 ..GRUB loading, 0001fd0: 706c 6561 7365 2077 6168 plus 1 742e 2e2e 0a00 please wait..... 0001fe0: 68 plus 16e 7465 726e 616c 2065 7272 6f72 3a20 internal error: 0001ff0: 7468 6520 7365 636f 6e64 2073 6563 746f the second secto 0002000: 7220 6f66 2053 7461 6765 2032 2068 plus 1 7320 r of Stage 2 is 0002010: 756e 6b6e 6f77 6e2e 0000 0000 0000 0000 unknown.........