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[Tom <question74437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #74437 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/74437

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, before starting with the install it would be nice to check it's all
set-up right.  So in a terminal console type

sudo fdisk -l

& please post the output from that into here.

Then start the install from the icon on the top left-hand corner of the
desktop and when you get to the partitioning section about halfway
through choose the very bottom option of the 3 "Manual Partitioning".
Most people don't notice it because the other 2 options have a nice
graphic representation of what they are going to do but we can't afford
to use either of those, especially not after all the work you've done.
When you choose "Manual" it will take a few scary moments to rescan the
hard-drive.  Then it will show the layout you are familiar with but the
colour-coding is different <sighs> <shakes head>

"Manual Partitioning" is where you edit each partition except sda1 which
must be left alone.  Make sure that sda1, the ntfs partition, is
UNticked in the "Format?" column.  With sda2 edit it so that it's "Mount
Point" is set to "/boot".  Edit sda5 to set it's "Mount Point" to "/" -
or it might actually say "Root".  Then set sda6's "Mount Point" to
"/home".  Again check that the Xp partition, sda1, the hpfs/ntfs
partition is NOT going to get formatted and then go forwards.

A few screens later you get a summary of what's going to happen during
the install.  Scroll up and down that to check that all is well.  You
can back out or just go back a few steps to correct anything that seems
wrong, such as keyboard or something - if you do then make sure you
return through the Manual Partitioning section and recheck the summary
before continuing with the install.

You'll never guess where my major disasters with all this have happened - lol
Anyway, hopefully that should all install nicely and will pick-up on all the hardware thats plugged into your machine during the install process.  hopefully grub will automatically set-up entries for Xp and Ubuntu so that when you reboot you'll see a few options for booting into Ubuntu and 1 for booting into Xp :)
Good luck and regards again from
Tom :)

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