Duel boot not working

Hi,

Are you able to press Esc to enter the grub menu? What are the entries you see?

Try the following:

From the terminal: sudo fdisk -l
This will show the partition table as Ubuntu recognizes them.

Can you also paste the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? From the terminal: gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Just the entries near the bottom of the file for booting Ubuntu and Vista will do.

Ram

Esc is not working. I am trying the other things

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=3290aa39-cd19-42f6-84a1-cab6ec81a0ad ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=3290aa39-cd19-42f6-84a1-cab6ec81a0ad ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda3
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

We must see your hard disk configuration to give you right the answer... so:

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

-l is lower (-L)

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Copy and paste the result here

Thank you

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 192 10185 80269312 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 11460 12161 5636096 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 10186 11459 10233405 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 10186 11399 9751423+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 11400 11459 481918+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

the problem is at the top way at the top:
find this part

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu

change the timeout to the time you wish to have before it automaticly boots ubuntu, this is in seconds
and put a "#" in front of the "hiddenmenu" after the "hides the menu by default"
in the end it should look like mine above

correction to previous message: REMOVE the # in front of hiddenmenu
if you add another one it wont do anything :P

also, check out the wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/) and google: "cool things in grub"
if you want to customize grub (the little menu that lets you chose what to boot)
customizable things include, backgrounds on start, colors, default OS, ect...

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thank you