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michael graaf wrote: > Greetings from a chronic lurker - > > I recently converted an XP box to dual-boot with Jaunty, after which > any attempt to boot into Windows abort saying "file \system32\hal.dll > missing or corrupt". Google reveals a thread in Ubuntu Forum > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7279426#post7279426) which > fits the case: > > "...as you installed Ubuntu, ... the actual partition location of the > windows boot disk has moved. Thus the windows boot loader cannot find > hal.dll on the right hard drive partition... One cool thing to think > about here is that grub, the Linux boot loader is working and knows > where the windows boot partition is... the way to fix this problem is > to boot up into Linux, 7.10 or better and this product automounts the > various windows partitions... open a terminal and you will find these > various hard drive partitions in the directory /media. One of these > will have a lot of "window dressing", say for instance, a directory > called Windows or WINDOWS (depends :^). In the root of this directory > you will find a file called boot.ini..."[the writer describes remedial > steps] > > So after years as a GUI-only Ubuntero, I plunged into a terminal and > was promptly stumped by: > "/media$ vdir > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-05-04 15:51 cdrom -> cdrom0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-05-04 15:51 cdrom0" The /media directory only contains a link to cdrom0 Usually hard drive partitions will appear to Linux ad /dev/hda or /dev/sda devices try cat'ing the fstab with "cat /etc/fstab" to show lists of filesystems that may be mountable alternatively try cat'ing the boot menu file, try "cat /boot/menu.lst" or "cat /boot/grub/menu.lst" -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html