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Thread: Dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 / Vista - black screen

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hi,

wife's laptop dual booting fine vista (factory installed) , ubuntu (installed off dvd).
hadn't touched vista months, don't know when problem first happened.

when select vista partition grub menu computer not boot. black screen blinking cursor in top left of screen. ubuntu boots fine.

in grub menu various ubuntu kernels , recovery modes each, mem tests, , @ bottom vista partition , vista recovery partition.

i've searched forums solutions can't find specific our set of circumstances. threads can find on subject either boot configurations totally different, use different oses, different numbers of drives, different drive/parition configurations, error occurs @ different stage of "bootability", or completey different boot error, etc... or solution not work.

there way fix or find out problem is?
running vista recovery partition repair non-booting vista destroy grub , lose our ubuntu install?
please help.

additional info.

ok, forgot did install second drive in laptop. (it's been long since put ubuntu on it).

first drive 120gb 2 original ntfs vista partitions(dev/sda1 , dev/sda2).

second drive 200gb 50gb ntfs parition(dev/sdb1), 147gb ext4 partition (dev/sdb5 - ubuntu on here) , 2.9gb swap(dev/sdb6).

cannot remember drive or partition grub installed to.


grub menu confgiured follows -

ubuntu kernel 2.6.32.22
ubuntu kernel 2.6.32.22 recovery
ubuntu kernel 2.6.32.21
ubuntu kernel 2.6.32.21 recovery
memtest
memtest serial console
vista /dev/sda1 (main windows vista partition)
vista /dev/sda2 (vista recovery parition)


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