Gutsy/Windows Dual Boot

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 3 00:56:30 UTC 2007


On 10/02/2007 05:48 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'll be darned... I hadn't even noticed that (Title vs title) - you're
100 correct. Thanks for pointing that out :-)

G.






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