Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

John Graddy jwgraddy at valornet.com
Tue Oct 2 22:40:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:31 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Yes, do sudo update-grub.
> 
> --- John Graddy <jwgraddy at valornet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:47 -0400, Bruce Marshall
> > wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, John Graddy wrote:
> > > > The only way that I know to boot windows is to
> > get into GRUB command
> > > > mode and enter the following:
> > > >
> > > > root (hd0,0)
> > > > makeactive
> > > > chainloader +1
> > > > boot
> > > >
> > > > When I do that, Windows boots OK.
> > > 
> > > Well then, put those lines into your menu.lst with
> > a title for Windows.
> > > 
> > > And if that doesn't work, my guess would be that
> > you are editing the wrong 
> > > menu.lst.
> > > 
> > > You should also be aware that if you select an
> > entry on the GRUB menu (one of 
> > > the boot options) and then type  'e', it will
> > allow you to edit that entry 
> > > for that boot.   Once you type 'e', you will be
> > shown all of the lines in 
> > > that entry and you can select one of those lines
> > and again type 'e' to edit a 
> > > single line.
> > > 
> > > Type 'b' to  boot once you have made your changes.
> >  
> > > 
> > I added those lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst.  I did
> > not get a Windows
> > menu entry - ubuntu booted.  When I entered 'esc' to
> > get the GRUB boot
> > options, Windows did not appear.
> > 
> > Do I need o do an 'uodate-grub' after editing
> > menu.lst?
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

Executed 'sudo update-grub'.  Still no Windows boot entry.





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