Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

Bruce Marshall bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Wed Oct 3 00:48:07 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 02 October 2007, John Graddy wrote:
> I currently have the latter.  However, I have tried both, and I don't
> get a Windows boot option.  I have tried 'sudo update-grub' and I still
> don't get a Windows entry.  

Ok, I take it back.   You don't get the Windows entry.   I tried the same and 
didn't get it.

However, it only took me about 30 seconds to fix the problem.   I did two 
things and I think the second one is Key.

1) I moved the windows entry up to the top of the list of other entries.  You 
had it waaaay down beyond all those entries.  Why?  But I don't think this 
was the problem.

2)  I changed 'Title' to be  'title'  like all of the other entries.  I guess 
no one noticed this and apparently GRUB is case-sensitive.

That did it.  Now the Windows entry shows up.


And the answer to your initial question was contained in the comments in the 
menu.lst file.   Look above the title entries and you will see an example of 
booting Windows.

Have fun.




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