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My Windows wont boot in Grub

Asked by Ezor

After the update to the latest release I havent been able to boot my Windows Vista OS, GRUB just reboots and put me back on the top of the list over and over again... tried to check the menu.lst but it looks like it always have... Any ideas on what to do about it?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Which version of Ubuntu are you using ?

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Ezor (ezor-henriksson) said : 		#2

Im usinig Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Can you type
    grub-install --version
and also post result of
   sudo parted -l
and post file menu.lst

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Ezor (ezor-henriksson) said : 		#4

grub-install -v
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)

sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST9320320AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 1049kB 307GB 307GB primary ntfs boot
 4 307GB 320GB 12.8GB primary ntfs

Model: WD 2500BEV External (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
 1 32.3kB 242GB 242GB primary ext3
 2 242GB 250GB 8546MB extended
 5 242GB 250GB 8546MB logical linux-swap(v1)

menu.lst:

title Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-24-generic
uuid c3c5dce9-c34d-47ac-8bb2-f5d55fd26655
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=c3c5dce9-c34d-47ac-8bb2-f5d55fd26655 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, memtest86+
uuid c3c5dce9-c34d-47ac-8bb2-f5d55fd26655
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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