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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