It was a Win 7 install. Once I reinstalled GRUB everything worked correctly.On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 04:16:00PM -0500, Loyal Barber loyal_barber@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
> On 6/17/2014 12:40 PM, Gene Henley mhenley2@verizon.net
> [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >The boot menu comes up. If I select Ubuntu, I get it OK. If I
> >select Windows,the
> >screen goes dark and I see a flashing dash light upper left of
> >screen.Windows
> >never boots.
>
> It should be a simple mater of reinstalling Grub.. I have at times
> had happen what you describe or at least close to it. Check out a
> product called "Grub Customizer." I just googled "grub customizer
> ubuntu 14.04" and found a great deal of information. I have thus
> far used grub customizer on Mint 16 and Zorin. If you want to try
> that route and need help, let us know.
I'm not sure. It might be that the Windows boot loader thingie got messed
up, which might mean booting from a Windows CD and running fixmbr or
whatever it's callled.
Here's a suggestion that looks good if too, actually.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/115904/cant-boot-xp-after-ubuntu-installation-how-to-fix
Loyal, in your case, did it help recover a Windows XP install?
<snip>--
Scott Robbins
PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
Can you mount the Win XP partition in Ubuntu?
Loyal
Posted by: Loyal Barber <loyal_barber@yahoo.com>
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