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xp wont boot after installing xubuntu 11.10

Asked by Peter

On my backup computer I had dual boot on sda windows millenium and xubuntu 11.10 with both booting up okay.

On the 2nd disk in that machine sdb , I installed XP (so I can play microsoft flight simulator). It booted okay but no choice of OS.
I then installed xubuntu 11.10 alongside on sdb and get a menu to bootup windows millenium, XP or either version of xubuntu 11.10.
Now both versions of xubuntu 11.10 boot up okay but neither windows version will. XP just produces a black screen with no error messages.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#1

Please check this site.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Support stops May 9, 2013 for release 11.10

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Windows ME support is vert dead and XP has about 300 days left. Are you making a myseum of installed operating systems?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

What is the output of :

sudo update-grub; sudo fdisk -l

Thanks

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#4

I have to occasionally reinstall stuff on my treo handspring with Windows ME and microsoft flight simulator 2004 wont run under Wine. I dont use either of these useless OS for anything else. These are only on my 2nd computer which I dont connect to the Internet. This computer has Xubuntu 12.10 shortly going to 13.04 which should please Michael above.

output of : sudo update-grub; sudo fdisk -l

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Ubuntu 11.10 (11.10) on /dev/sda2
Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sdb1
done

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156299375 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001690b

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 16595144 8297541 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 16595145 29286494 6345675 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 29286495 31631984 1172745 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 31631985 156296384 62332200 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders, total 156250000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c7b3a

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 15623109 7811523+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 15624190 156248063 70311937 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 15624192 156248063 70311936 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 259 MB, 259784704 bytes
149 heads, 53 sectors/track, 64 cylinders, total 507392 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006a104

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 507391 253664+ b W95 FAT32
peter@peter-desktop:~$

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#5

I have given up on the idea. I will put 13.04 on my backup computer as well and probably run XP on virtual box.
Thanks anyway.
Regards,
Peter