upgrade k10.10 to k12.04 from live cd

[Nils Kassube]

ray burke wrote:
> I tied the above but not sure what commands go into it, as I want to
> dual boot with
> my xp pro which is at (on /dev/sdb5)?

You must be living in down-under if you mix-up above and below. (SCNR)

More seriously: Usually the command

sudo update-grub

should find your XP and add it to the grub menu. OTOH, I'm not sure if 
it would search on other disks than sda. So this is what an entry in 
"/boot/grub/grub.cfg" for sda1 should look like:

menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP (on /dev/sda1)" {
        set root=(hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
}

I would assume that you should replace the line "set root=(hd0,1)" with 
"set root=(hd1,5)", but I have no chance to test it myself. You could 
add the menu entry to the end of the file "/etc/grub.d/40_custom". Then 
run the command

sudo update-grub

and reboot. Now you should see the extra entry for XP.


Nils

> On 8/31/12, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > ray burke wrote:
> >> also how do I get grub to start as there is no /grub/menulst?
> > 
> > Well, the config file of the new GRUB2 is /boot/grub/grub.cfg but
> > you should make changes to /etc/default/grub to make it permanent
> > and then run the command
> > 
> > sudo update-grub
> > 
> > in a terminal. For details about GRUB2 please have a look at
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2>.