[Lesliect]

Hi everyone,

I would really appreciate any help on this one, it isn't easy to solve.

The situation : I have a single hard disk which I partitioned into 3 drives : 1 for Ubuntu, 1 for the swap, and 1 for WinXP. I have installed Ubuntu on te first one. I have WinXP mounted on the hda6 partition. Now, I'd like to choose the OS on boot. This is the tricky part : i have installed GAG, which detects the WinXP partition, but after choosing it, I have a black screen and nothing happens. Ubuntu works fine, even detects the Windows partition. I also trtied using grub, without success. I tried every single possible combination of :

root (hd0,5)
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
map
makeactive
chainloader +1

but when grub boots and I choose WinXP, it gives me error messages like : "srting cannot be read" or "invalid drive requested", or "error while parsing number", and does nothing. I have verified and reverified that the NTFS partition is mounted on hda6, in other words, (hd0,5). Where is the problem?

I have tried everything, been working on this for 2 days now and this is beginning to get frustrating.

So please, ANYONE who can help, please do so, I would REALLY appreciate it.

Thank you everyone very much,

Leslie