Comments on: Dual Boot Ubuntu 9.04 and Vista

By: RJ

RJ — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:00:31 +0000

I don’t think this will work with 9.10 and up…, no menu.lst because of GRUB2 , thanks for the article though!!

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:53:56 +0000

Thank you for writing this.. it was the only way to get my machine working.

There is a slight problem.. if you copy the file to a usb stick, Linux has different line-end characters than windows, and if you open it up in ‘configure’ which uses notepad.exe, it will look like a mess. The way i did it was to open menu.lst in wordpad, which fixes the end-of-line problem, then ctrl-c ctrl-v into the ‘configure’ window in EasyBCD.

Alternatively you could use some linux or windows program to fix the end-of-line thing in the file itself.

Thanks again for posting this.. after hours of work this was the final trick that actually got the computer dual booting properly.

By: Dan Dar3

Dan Dar3 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:40 +0000

Thanks a lot for writing the post, it’s been very useful to me.

I had first installed Ubuntu 9.04 and then later on I installed Windows 7 RC, which obviously overwrote the Ubuntu loader. I first when into EasyBCD and tried adding back the Ubuntu through the Linux tab, no luck then I wanted to try NeoGrub and found you post.

I first installed NeoGrub and didn’t know much what to put in menu.lst so I booted the Ubuntu Live CD, found the /boot/grub/menu.lst on the Ubuntu HDD partition and copied it on top of the empty one in C:/NST/menu.lst, rebooted and choosing the new entry from the Windows 7 bootloader brought me to the Ubuntu entries. I’m sure with some tweaking you can probably change the menu.lst so that Ubuntu starts directly from the main boot entry, but that for another day…